Originally Posted by MattO

In my Mom's hometown Walmart wanted to build a store and the town said no, so Walmart bought land outside the city limits and put in a superstore.
Now the downtown area of the town is pretty much shuttered and the town gets no tax $ from Walmart since they said fuck you and built the place outside their zone.

The only businesses left in the downtown are bars.

The florist (which was my grandma's), the hardware store, the sporting goods store, etc are all gone.

And the main reason why the town said no to them in the first place is that they wanted this little town to pony up money they didn't have for putting in all the infrastructure stuff for Walmart, the water & power lines, widening the street and putting in lights, all that shit.

At least the people there can now get a job selling Chinese bullshit.