Great a Wal-Mart Supercenter for Indian Trail?

[atownrocks]

If you drive down Hwy. 74 now at the corner of Unionville-Indian Trail road they are building a Wal-Mart Supercenter there. Why? They have one 5 miles east down the road in Monroe, then they have one like 7 miles west in Charlotte. Does this not seem like a big waste of land. Wal-Mart Supercenters pop-up all over Charlotte. And Super Targets Pop-up all over Raleigh. Whats with that?

[skysdalimit]

Meh, it's called capitalism, and I'm all for it in most cases except times involving Wal-Mart Supercenters, though I would be more apt to tolerate the Targets, or should I say "Tar-jay"?

[eastsider]

I read somewhere recently that it was Wal-Marts plan to have one every 5 miles, so this fits right in.

[DigitalSky]

yup

[mediamongrel]

yup

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If Harris Teeter can do it then Wal Mart should be able to as well. Besides as someone said in another thread, it's not like Wal Mart invented this trend. Once a store catches on with the public, I'd put one on every corner too!

[alon504]

Hey...if the $$$ can be made....they are going to go after it...And you know what?!?...They have a right to do so. It's called capitalism. 5 miles?!...LOL...they are building a SuperWalmart one mile from another SuperWalmart in Elmwood in Metro New Orleans...

[Norm2]

Wal-mart wanted to build a supercenter in pineville even though they have one on tryon and arrowood.....they do literally build these things just a few miles apart.....

[DigitalSky]

Wal-mart wanted to build a supercenter in pineville even though they have one on tryon and arrowood.....they do literally build these things just a few miles apart.....

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yeah that's right.. wasn't it supposed to be next to Celebration Station?

[monsoon]

The only place that I know of in the area that has stopped this kind of development is Huntersville, Cornelius & Davidson. We are Walmart free. Though I admit that I shop at the one on Hwy 16 in Charlotte so I am part of the problem too.

[orulz]

I might be willing to overlook Wal-Mart's questionable policies towards employees and manufacturers, as well as the questionable quality of much (most?) of their merchandise if it weren't for the following:

They consistently build the hugest, most hideous, least inviting commercial buildings in the country, with the most enormous parking lots. They're often separated from the street by a half mile or more, behind all the other strip malls, because there quite simply isn't enough frontage on the street to build their massive parking lots. You can pretty much forget walking to a Super Wal-Mart, anywhere, ever. Their parking lots are always full, and they tend to overwhelm the vicinity with cars driving in and out and circling the (huge) lot for a better space.

Build a Wal-Mart SuperCenter anywhere - no matter how far it is from civilization or how close it is to another SuperCenter, and you can guarantee that people will come out of the woodwork and fill up their parking lot. I guess that's a testiment that their perhaps brutally capitalist business plan works. Their bet that the rest of America doesn't care about the things that I care about has paid off big time.