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Originally Posted by L-Pink
No they don't. They don't give back shit. Local businesses sponsor little league teams, the owners re spend the profits in restaurants, other small stores, houses they buy, etc. walmart transfers their daily revenue OUT of your city never to be re spent there again.
As far as the nice new location, just wait till walmart moves to a newer store and leaves behind a huge empty building which they have done in every city nationwide.
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When you compare it to the old store the differences are staggering.
They expect the new store will pay $3mil in city taxes in the first year. I doubt the original market made that in a year, no less paid more than $1mil in taxes. I doubt they made $1mil.
So this old store had two of their kids on our football team, yet couldn't find it in their heart to donate $100. At the same time Wal Mart came in and donated $20k to our team - our biggest sponsor.
We have a family here who was very involved in our community - you know the type. Their three kids were on all of the sports teams, after school events, and they were on the PTA and took part in our sports leagues, etc etc etc. The perfect all American family. Three years ago their high school son committed suicide. What did the old rainbow market do? Nothing. This family started a suicide awareness charity which is partially combined with another local school charity, and Wal Mart found out about it and made a huge donation to them as well.
I understand that Wal Mart has a public relations team that comes into the community and figures these things out and makes a big splash, but they've done more in three months than the old store they replaced has done in forty years.