wal mart benefits your community 100000000x more than any mom and pop store. and its not that hard to figure out.
lots of jobs
lots of people coming from other places to shop there, and will probably stop at other places too
lots of local taxes (maybe thats not a benefit)
Wow, you really don't have much of a clue, do you?
"Similar to increased foreign investment, research shows that more Wal-Marts destroy jobs rather than create them. For every two jobs Wal-Mart creates, three jobs are lost in the community. And since the average Wal-Mart employee makes $11,700 annually, which is below the poverty line for a single mother with 2 children, wages throughout the community are reduced as well. "
"A full-time Wal-Mart employee earns less than $12,000 a year, and they are offered few if any health care benefits. A full-time employee as defined by the company is anyone who clocks-in 28 hours a week. 28 hours a week, by the way, is just below the threshold that would require Wal-Mart to pay their "Associates" benefits."
"Wal-Mart's success has turned many Main Streets of small-town U.S.A. into ghost towns. A 1995 Iowa survey showed that of the small retail industry devastation statewide, half the clothing stores, nearly one-third of the hardware and shoe stores, one-fourth of the department and building materials stores, and nearly one-fifth of jewelry stores had closed their doors because of Wal-Mart.
What's more is that Wal-Mart usually buys cheap land on the outskirts of town and uses their clout to get local officials to grant special tax breaks at taxpayers' expense. This amounts to nothing more than bidding for redundant jobs with public funds."
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