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thudsaz
Posts:129
 | | 07/08/2007 11:55 AM |
 Alert | | Curiouser and curiouser! | |
Chris Thudium
"If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will." Abraham Lincoln
<-- Our beloved Kaia
09/1996 - 10/2007 | |
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| | bdawg
Posts:18
| | 07/08/2007 2:33 PM |
Alert | | I used to sell to retail stores target, Menards (if your from the Midwest) etc. I saw it all the time with the big stores. You'd buy a light bulb at Menards in Davenport, IA for $1.99 and go buy the same exact light bulb in Minneapolis, MN for $1.29. (Prices were an example not reality) but it's true on the small town versus the big town stores. Just the same if you bought olives from Fry's then went to AJ's fine foods. They may have close to similar buying power BUT your paying for the shopping experience at AJ's so they gouge you a bit more. NOT ALL items are like this but there are a good majority. | |
it takes a village to raise a child, and I don't mean the villages at Rancho El Dorado | |
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| | missMegan
Posts:84
| | 07/08/2007 3:38 PM |
Alert | | STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT THE WALMART! I'll probably be gone before it gets here but I think that Maricopa needs it. | |
I'm moving back to civilization on 9/1!! | |
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| | utahjazzfan
Posts:96
| | 07/08/2007 4:19 PM |
Alert | | so I was wrong. That happens a lot and Im ok with it. It stills blows the mind though. My sister in law brings the Wal Mart add from Utah during Xmas, and the storees here have all the same sales. I guess thats why it was so hard for me to comprehend. Oh well, I still cant wait til it gets here. I'll take Great Value over Kroger anyday. | | | |
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| | TortosaGuy
Posts:682
| | 07/08/2007 7:31 PM |
Alert | | ill be happy to see another option for shopping....even if it does tend to attract lower class workers and lower class customers in some cases too....good example...the one off of elliot i believe and the I-10....yuck | |
*formerly known as inyrfce2*
Senior Member
Posts: 797
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| | twostep23
Posts:1687
| | 07/08/2007 8:21 PM |
Alert | | Not to mention all the money that would be staying here in Maricopa. | |
Senior Member
Posts: 4625
Joined: Feb 2006 | |
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|  | BlueWater
Posts:105
| | 07/08/2007 8:35 PM |
Alert | Yes on the Walmart, so that it will clean up Fry's  | | | |
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| | BlueWater
Posts:105
| | 07/08/2007 8:40 PM |
Alert | <div class='NTForums_Quote'>Posted By utahjazzfan on 07/08/2007 11:04 AM
ok Tigg, thats news to me. I wont believe it until I see it. I travel all over with my job, and I must not be paying too close attention. Im not going to say you're wrong, I just need more proof to believe they could change prices on items. I could see items being different, but not prices.</div>
I live between 2 walmarts in Gilbert. They DO have different prices on various items.
Thank god SuperTarget opened I haven't had to go to Walmart in forever.
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| | wolfpack..
Posts:228
| | 07/08/2007 10:54 PM |
Alert | | I would love to see a Super Target in Maricopa. I also hope that the shopping center that is planned for MCG HWY will be built long before the one on the rez. Any moneys that are spent on reservation land aren't charged city sales tax. We need that revenue to keep up with our growth. | |
Senior Member
406 posts
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| | bitterbeard
Posts:207
| | 07/09/2007 4:16 AM |
Alert | Having been here only a couple months I'm tired of the whole town shutting down at 11pm.
This is no longer a small town, we need something open after ma and pa go to sleep for children's medicine, late night ice cream runs or just because I want to go to the store and look around.
If Wal-Mart is the store open, that is where I will spend my money.
Every company would do all that Wal-Mart does and more if given the chance, they all exist to make money off of us. | | | |
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| | GilaGuy
Posts:789
| | 07/09/2007 5:04 AM |
Alert | <div class='NTForums_Quote'>Posted By bitterbeard on 07/09/2007 4:16 AM
Having been here only a couple months I'm tired of the whole town shutting down at 11pm.</div>
Sheesh. In the old days, there was nothing TO shut down at 11pm. <img src='http://www.85239.com/desktopmodules/ntforums/images/emoticons/smile.gif' height='20' width='20' border='0' title='Smile' align='absmiddle'>
I do agree with you though, it'd be nice to have something open later. There are plenty of people in town who work Graveyard shift (or something close to it) and would like to be able to get some errands done in the wee hours of the morning. Hopefully, as the town continues to grow, some businesses will see that and jump aboard. <img src='http://www.85239.com/desktopmodules/ntforums/images/emoticons/smile.gif' height='20' width='20' border='0' title='Smile' align='absmiddle'> | | | |
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| | BlueWater
Posts:105
| | 07/09/2007 7:04 AM |
Alert | <div class='NTForums_Quote'>Posted By bitterbeard on 07/09/2007 4:16 AM
This is no longer a small town, we need something open after ma and pa go to sleep for children's medicine, late night ice cream runs or just because I want to go to the store and look around.
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What about Walgreens and CVS, they're not 24hrs? | | | |
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| | Jason
Posts:3378
| | 07/09/2007 1:49 PM |
Alert |
What about Walgreens and CVS, they're not 24hrs?
Nope. | |
Joined: Jul 2005 | |
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| | Goldwing
Posts:15
| | 07/09/2007 2:36 PM |
Alert | <div class='NTForums_Quote'>Posted By DesertDweller on 07/08/2007 5:36 AM
However, Wal-Mart would provide tons of jobs that don't pay a living wage. They would employ people who's only access to healthcare is through the state. Maybe if these jobs were supplimental income for a family, that could be a good thing. Usually, they are the primary source of income for the workers.
I hate the cheap products. Much of the stuff that's sold there is substandard junk that's made in China under conditions that would be criminal in the United States. I shop there sometimes, but I don't enjoy the experience and I feel dirty afterwards.
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There are numerous employers that do not pay as you say, a living wage. People in the food service industry, landscape maintenance, hotel workers, convenience store workers, just to name a few. Do we talk in a disparaging manner to those as well, or seek to ban them from our towns? On the other hand, do employees need to work two jobs to make ends meet? I know that in the day that is what we did, and did not whine about what we were not getting from our employer. Would it have been nice to have those benefits? Sure but we made it happen for ourselves.
As to the cheap products, I am in agreement with you on that one. However, the average consumer wants, inexpensive (cheap) goods, and are coerced into thinking that if it only cost $20, then it is expendable after a short period.
This is due to the aggressive marketing of the consumer by large corporations that export our raw goods to foreign nations, only to be brought back as finished products, cutting out all the in-between employment of our work force. Secondly, as utopian as it may seem, we cannot hold the rest of the world to our standards of workplace conditions, as much as we would like.
But you know as well as I that the majority will not stand fast to a made in the USA mentality, or at the least, assembled in the USA. Therefore, it’s left up to the biggest bang for the buck. I just wish the bang would last longer. We need to have choices that we wich to make, not choices that are made for us.
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| | Sinbad
Posts:3036
| | 07/09/2007 2:43 PM |
Alert | I could live without one...
I would like to see a Awetukee style area built.... A little of everything.
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Just doing it one day at a time. Change is good and it should be looked upon as an improvment! not a problem.
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| | vytor
Posts:45
| | 07/10/2007 10:18 PM |
Alert | WALMART, ACK... drive the 25 miles to Chandler and save the community. Walmart is argueably the world's largest and most profitable retailer where ,dealing out low wages, unpaid overtime, and union busting are a way of life...
If Homedepot and Walmart show up you can say by to ACE, and most of the mom and pop stores.
I will post a bit from a site I found, yes they are opinions and yes they are like well you know...
If a town declines to welcome GodzillaMart, the next town over will take it, pulling trade and tax dollars out of local coffers. The town has no choice - the terms are dictated by the retail giant from afar. Is this right, fair, or decent? Is this Middle American family values? No more mom and pop stores here. The nation is being covered by a Wal-to-Wal-Mart carpet, the nation blanketed not with daisy chains of wildflowers, but something more like kudzu. Welcome, Weed-Mart.
Big businesses put their money in big banks, taking it far out of town. Money spent in a chain store leaves town on the next electronic transfer, while money spent in a local store circulates in the community seven more times before leaving. In other words, chains use local workers and consumers as a colony, extracting their wealth and exporting to the mother country. Sound familiar? Can you say American Revolution?
From some persons rant that makes valid points.
http://www.davelippman.com/walmart/whyihatewalmart.html
I am completly against a Walmat showing its face in Maricopa. I would rather drive to Chandler if needed.
My 2 Cents.
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| | azsouthendzone
Posts:0
| | 07/11/2007 2:39 PM |
Alert | | Bring on Wal-Mart and Home Depot. Ace sucks. | | | |
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| | Devil Dog
Posts:409
| | 07/11/2007 5:00 PM |
Alert | | Home Depot sucks too - what we really need is a LOWES! | |
"Always Moving Forward" | |
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| | NY2Copa
Posts:125
| | 07/14/2007 9:29 AM |
Alert | | Holy Moly my Copa neighbors ..... here we go again ... just in an upgraded web site .... We need Wal Mart .... if Maricopa is to grow and no be isolated by the ocean of desert that surrounds us ... YOUR property values will rise .... OTHER businesses follow Wal Mart .... movie theaters, Pay-less shoe stores ... health food stores .... resturaunts, places of entertainment like As You Wish .... when Wal Mart gets here do you think it will stand alone? It will bring followers ... we need these followers ... wake up and smell the bigger picture! | | | |
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| | stinkerbell2
Posts:0
| | 07/14/2007 9:47 AM |
Alert | Yeah!!! what NY2Copa said!!!;D I with ya sister!!!
Someone once told me that Target only comes to communities that exceed 75k Has anyone else heard htis? I moved from a new city and it took 7-8 years (from the homebuilding boom and incorporation into cityhood) for major retail to come there so if that is the case here we have a few more years!:0( | | | |
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