Wal-Mart uses new tactic to dodge town law

[liberalpragmatist]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, is employing a new tactic to get around a Maryland town ordinance that limits store sizes — build two outlets right next to each other.

Signaling what could be a new approach to getting around such restrictions, Wal-Mart will build adjacent stores in Dunkirk, Md. with one outlet being constructed so that it will be just under the 75,000 square-foot limit that is allowed by a Calvert County ordinance.

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Calvert County passed an ordinance in August limiting the size of commercial retail buildings to 75,000 square feet. Wal-Mart usually builds stores that range from at least 100,000 square feet to more than 200,000 square feet for Supercenters.

Wal-Mart proposed a 74,998-square-foot store in Dunkirk that will be next to a 22,689-square-foot garden center. The two stores would have their own entrances, utilities, bathrooms and cash registers.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7161611/

[SHRED]

1. Ugh

Mal*Wart is pure evil.
:mad:

[Snotcicles]

2. Question for Wal-Mart

whats your point?
Do you want to own the world?

[7th_Sephiroth]

3. sounds like the town needs to rally and make a petition

to just stop wal-mart from building in the town just straight up, also another route to go would be that the 2 stores will violate the city beautification statutes