http://www.businesspundit.com/lessons-from-the-walmart-wars/ Entrepreneurship, Startup Companies and Business Philosophy Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:09:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.businesspundit.com/lessons-from-the-walmart-wars/comment-page-1/#comment-1480 Lewis Green Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:08:40 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=2859#comment-1480 How do we know that by Chicago keeping WalMart out cost "new retail jobs, tax revenues, lower prices and consumer dollars from its own citizens" without doing a side-by-side comparison of how WalMark may have affected the current state of Chicago's retail businesses? Also, I doubt many Chicagoans, having once lived there, are now traveling to Evergreen Park to shop at WalMart. This is a city where many tens of thousands are poor, many tens of thousands more depend on public transportation and many tens of thousands are in upper-middle and upper income brackets. Chicago does not have a large Middle Class population, and Evergreen Park is seven miles from Midway Airport, not a stone's throw from most of the city. I could be wrong. But before I accept the premise, I would like to see the data. How do we know that by Chicago keeping WalMart out cost “new retail jobs, tax revenues, lower prices and consumer dollars from its own citizens” without doing a side-by-side comparison of how WalMark may have affected the current state of Chicago’s retail businesses? Also, I doubt many Chicagoans, having once lived there, are now traveling to Evergreen Park to shop at WalMart. This is a city where many tens of thousands are poor, many tens of thousands more depend on public transportation and many tens of thousands are in upper-middle and upper income brackets. Chicago does not have a large Middle Class population, and Evergreen Park is seven miles from Midway Airport, not a stone’s throw from most of the city. I could be wrong. But before I accept the premise, I would like to see the data.

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