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Offline Frank Cannon

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Here Is How Walmart Plans To Seize Further Control Of Your Community
« on: November 13, 2018, 06:27:57 am »
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-12/here-how-walmart-plans-seize-further-control-your-community



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At the most recent International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) conference in Atlanta, Walmart announced new plans to repurpose twelve of its locations into Town Centers -- an outdoor gathering area with seating, community activities, entertainment, dining facilities, jogging paths, fountains, green spaces, playgrounds, and even space for live music.

The idea behind Walmart's seismic shift is that it wants to recreate the downtown of small communities that it was instrumental in destroying.

    “We want to provide community space, areas for the community to dwell,” said L.B. Johnson, vice president of realty operations for Walmart in his ICSC keynote speech.
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Re: Here Is How Walmart Plans To Seize Further Control Of Your Community
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2018, 06:31:26 am »
The big corporations are going to be our new community centers. How Orwellian. 
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Re: Here Is How Walmart Plans To Seize Further Control Of Your Community
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2018, 07:46:18 am »
How is this different from a mall?

Zerohedge sucks.
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« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2018, 10:59:17 am »
Utilizing their unused parking lot space....smart.  (Not too good for RV'ers looking for a free overnight however).
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Re: Here Is How Walmart Plans To Seize Further Control Of Your Community
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2018, 12:56:46 pm »
Ooh this must be the next step in the Walmart FEMA Camp conspiracy. 888blackhat
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Re: Here Is How Walmart Plans To Seize Further Control Of Your Community
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2018, 01:05:58 pm »
The kind of community that's going to want to "dwell" in a Walmart parking lot... um... well...

All I'll say is that this can't possibly end well.
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Re: Here Is How Walmart Plans To Seize Further Control Of Your Community
« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2018, 02:02:38 pm »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on November 13, 2018, 01:05:58 pm
The kind of community that's going to want to "dwell" in a Walmart parking lot... um... well...

All I'll say is that this can't possibly end well.

They are ecofriendly?  Giddy-up
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Re: Here Is How Walmart Plans To Seize Further Control Of Your Community
« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2018, 02:06:16 pm »
How "Agenda 21/Vision 2020" of them or maybe I should say, "How NWO of them."
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« Reply #8 on: November 13, 2018, 02:09:55 pm »
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The idea behind Walmart's seismic shift is that it wants to recreate the downtown of small communities that it was instrumental in destroying.

Oh, please.  Walmart didn't "destroy" small communities.  They did introduce some competition though.
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Re: Here Is How Walmart Plans To Seize Further Control Of Your Community
« Reply #9 on: November 13, 2018, 04:37:07 pm »
Quote from: Drago on November 13, 2018, 10:59:17 am
Utilizing their unused parking lot space....smart.  (Not too good for RV'ers looking for a free overnight however).
Not sure how it is where you are, but around here the only time there is unused parking at a Walmart is when it's closed.
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« Reply #10 on: November 13, 2018, 05:30:40 pm »
Quote from: GtHawk on November 13, 2018, 04:37:07 pm
Not sure how it is where you are, but around here the only time there is unused parking at a Walmart is when it's closed.

Or when the thousand or so handicapped spots are empty.  Which is always.
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« Reply #11 on: November 14, 2018, 02:54:24 am »
Quote from: CatherineofAragon on November 13, 2018, 05:30:40 pm
Or when the thousand or so handicapped spots are empty.  Which is always.
With all the bogus handicap placards that are out there they would need a thousand or so, but it seems like even that wouldn't be enough when I'm looking for one. Hey thanks, this reminds me I need to fire of a testy little bitch to one of the local school district who had their delinquents out on a field trip to a local grocery store and parked their van in one of the only four handicap spaces because high school age kids were to friggin lazy to walk a short distance or maybe because the driver was to incompetent to park in a standard space.
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Re: Here Is How Walmart Plans To Seize Further Control Of Your Community
« Reply #12 on: November 14, 2018, 03:28:46 am »
Quote from: The Ghost on November 13, 2018, 02:02:38 pm
They are ecofriendly?  Giddy-up


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Re: Here Is How Walmart Plans To Seize Further Control Of Your Community
« Reply #13 on: November 14, 2018, 03:34:15 am »
Someday Walmart and Amazon will fuse and create Skynet.
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Re: Here Is How Walmart Plans To Seize Further Control Of Your Community
« Reply #14 on: November 14, 2018, 01:35:49 pm »
Quote from: Dexter on November 14, 2018, 03:34:15 am
Someday Walmart and Amazon will fuse and create Skynet.

Skynet already exists.

http://www.skynetwisp.com/
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Re: Here Is How Walmart Plans To Seize Further Control Of Your Community
« Reply #15 on: November 14, 2018, 02:06:55 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on November 13, 2018, 02:09:55 pm
Oh, please.  Walmart didn't "destroy" small communities.  They did introduce some competition though.
And let's not act like Walmart came out of nowhere and sucked the life out of independent mom-and-pops. They're in mid-sized towns and small cities, and there were plenty of stores like Walmart before them. Before Walmart, it was Kmart. Before Kmart, it was Hills, Ames, Jamesway, and countless others in the 20th century that came and went.

Dollar General is much more of a small-town vulture than Walmart is.
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