Chicago shutsout Wal-Mart

[sooner n houston]

No linky yet, but trust me it has happened!

The city council approved the minimum wage in city of $10 plus $3 in bennies.

They just sent millions of dollars in tax revenue to the burbs!

[OhU1]

Those inner city politicians are pure genius!

[sooner n houston]

Just found this article:


Wal-Mart focus on close-in suburbs
Passage of city bill requiring big-box stores to pay `living wage' likely to cause retail giant to turn to strategy of ringing city with Supercenters

By Sandra Jones
Tribune staff reporter
Published July 27, 2006


The world's largest retailer suffered a blow on Wednesday when Chicago aldermen passed a bill that requires big-box stores, including Wal-Mart, to pay a so-called living wage. The ordinance could curb Wal-Mart's appetite to build stores in the city limits.

But it's not stopping the company's longstanding plans to blanket the Chicago suburbs with Supercenters, the giant stores that sell general merchandise and groceries.

Indeed, Wal-Mart for the first time has a veteran supermarket executive planted in Chicago, signaling that big changes are ahead.

Michael J. Lewis, president of Wal-Mart's Midwest division, sees millions of consumers hungry for Wal-Mart's low-priced groceries and envisions operating 40 Supercenters in the Chicago area in the next three years by building new stores and expanding existing stores. Wal-Mart currently has only a handful of Supercenters in the outlying suburbs.

[Ike]

is anyone really surprised by this. It's typical Chicago behavior...don't let in any corporation that doesn't hire unionized labor.

[Okla-homey]

I'm sure there's widespread wailing and teeth gnashing over this in Bentonville. Not.

[TheHumanAlphabet]

Just continued to relegate the inner cities to be put down by "the man". Stores will avoid the area and the residents will complain about the dearth of shopping opportunities and having to drive long distances to go to a store they need...

[Okla-homey]

Just continued to relegate the inner cities to be put down by "the man". Stores will avoid the area and the residents will complain about the dearth of shopping opportunities and having to drive long distances to go to a store they need...

To buy stuff they can actually afford.

[GrapevineSooner]

The law of unintended consequences is about to rear it's ugly head, again, thanks to the short sightedness of the Chicago City Council.

Of course, the law could also be struck down ala the ridiculous Maryland law that would have required Wal-Mart to grant benefits to it's employees in Maryland whether they wanted them or not on Bill of Attainder.

Or Daley could just shut the thing down, which he should.

[Ike]

Or Daley could just shut the thing down, which he should.

It passed 35-14. If Daley vetoes, he'd have to get 2 aldermen to change their vote on the override.