Showing posts with label Walmart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Walmart. Show all posts
Friday, April 23, 2021
What Too Many Americans Don't Know About Working Class America Today
Professor Robert Reich calls it out.
Want to support America's working class? Sure you do, unless you're already wealthy. The way to do it? Vote Democratic. Then vote out all Republicans. We must.
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Meanwhile, This Is Going On
While a man-child tries to ignore, deny our votes, election and Democracy, this, too, is going on.
Robert Reich @RBReich Nov 21
Walmart made $129B in profit last year, but at least 14,500 of their employees receive SNAP benefits.
McDonald's made $11B in profit, but at least 8,780 employees receive SNAP benefits.
Execs are paying workers poverty wages to boost stock prices and line their pockets.
Ain't America great?
Saturday, June 17, 2017
Huge Changes Coming To Us All
Have you read about these mergers and purchases lately?
Amazon to Buy Whole Foods
for $13.4 Billion
It seems Amazon is going to control a great deal of our otherwise retail purchases and purchasing. Up to now, it's been hard goods. Now they look to be getting extremely serious about the food markets, too.
It had a huge, nearly immediate effect on markets and companies, too.
With this one purchase, suddenly they're huge, nationally, in the food business.
Here's a good share of the reason for it all.
Meanwhile, retail and retail stores and retail buying all over the nation are getting also hammered, along with their stock prices.
What this means is that no one really knows where we're headed Well, except that we're headed online, more and yet more all the time.
And it's all kinds of stores right down to the dollar stores.
Besides reshaping retail and how and why we buy, it also means what our communities and cities look like and how they're built.
Shopping centers look to entertainment,
recreation to fill empty
anchors
Of course there's money--lots of big money--in health care so why wouldn't this happen, right?
The fact is, stores and business and retail and so, our cities and our lives are changing and the changes are coming and will be coming at us fast. Very, very fast.
It's a lot like the current Presidential Administration.
Completely unpredictable.
Hold onto your hats, ladies and gentlemen. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
Links:
Not done there, there was also this, just this week. Not as big but still significant.
And for a bit of fun:
Sunday, April 9, 2017
What Should Happen With the Mission Mall Site
Here it is as it stands right this moment. Still. It is still and it is still basically an ugly lot.
What should happen with it?
What should happen with this now-eyesore is that it should be given up, sold, I suppose, to the city for some reasonable fee and made into a park. It should be made into a city park. It would be a fantastic entrance into the small city, and it would enhance the entire area around it.
What should have happened, years ago, is that the mall should never have been torn down and leveled into the, again, eyesore it is now and has become and that it has been for some time. Even without hindsight it should have been known it shouldn't have been leveled and wasted. It needed upgrading, improving, but it fit the site, it was not ugly, it wasn't an ugly mall, it wasn't run that run down and vacated.
No doubt the developer got greedy. He no doubt thought this would somehow be a great idea and make him loads more money.
Man, was he wrong.
Sure, the 2008 financial collapse brought this mess on, too, but the whole notion of leveling a functional and again, not completely unattractive shopping center just so someone could, hopefully, make boodles more money was short-sighted and just downright greedy.
Now?
Now Walmart has backed out of the plans to locate in what the developer thought was going to be an upcoming, new center. Good luck finding another large tenant now. I feel certain there are and were plenty, plenty of Mission residents who didn't want the Walmart/Roeland Park customers coming down the hill to this site, anyway.
Another point, have you seen the latest reports on retail this week? Where retail is headed, it seems clear?
Another point, have you seen the latest reports on retail this week? Where retail is headed, it seems clear?
Retail collapse: The 23 biggest chains
closing stores this year
Heck, even Walmart is hurting.
And here's why.
So yes, this is what should happen. Turn it over. Make it into a park. They could even call it Mission Gateway Park.
It won't but that's what should happen.
Monday, March 20, 2017
That Trump/GOP Budget?
With this President and the GOP presenting cuts in government programs, I offer this response.
Again. We are #Strongertogether
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