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There's Wal-Marts is California? Apparently so -- and we paid about $50 million for them to be built, according to Wal-Mart Subsidy Watch. We're lucky enough to live in a city with lots of locally owned businesses and healthy jobs, but not so in such Steven-Kingishly named towns as Covina, Lake Elsinor, and Redlands.
According to WMSW, California ponied up about $50 in taxpayer-funded gifts to the Arkansas company, in exchange for which those towns got giant megabox shopping extravaganzae. And also, lots of uninsured people -- Wake-Up Wal-Mart estimates that taxpayers spent about $40 million paying for Wal-Mart employees' health care, since the richest company in the universe couldn't be arsed to do so itself. Enjoy those 13-cent discounts, Covina!
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I'm from Redlands!
Actually, my sister used to work there and yes, it's crap. Screw you Wal-Mart.
But they are open 24 hours and it's a great way to see people who only come out to shop at midnight...
I'm from Azusa, which borders Covina, my parents live down the street from Walmart/ Sam's Club (off of Azusa Avenue). When I was growing up we had Kmart and Target. Sometime during the last 15 years I moved away, Walmart/ Sam's Club moved into town. They put the Kmart out of business and the Target moved to West Covina. Obviously there wasn't an additional need for a big box retailer, since the area doesn't seem able to maintain more than two at a time.