San Diego to ban Wal-Mart Supercenters?
San Diego's City Council recently voted 5-3 to ban stores which have a square footage of 90,000 or more and uses 10 percent or more of their store to sell groceries. This ban mainly targets on Wal-Mart and their recent plans to build a 225,000 square foot supercenter in San Diego. The mayor may veto the vote, but the council can overturn it with a vote of 5. The mayor said that he doesn't feel its the council's decision to dictate where the people of San Diego buy their groceries. The council argues that they are just trying to keep San Diego a walkable, livable place without being inhabited by huge supercenters. Supporters of the ban argue that supercenters such as Wal-Mart kill local business, pay their consumers poorly and add to pollution. On the other hand, opponents say that supercenters provide jobs for the community as well as low prices. How do you stand on this issue? What if Marietta placed such a ban on stores? Do you agree more with the supporters or opponents of this issue?
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Although the size of the Wal-Mart stores seem to be growing each day, who is to decide whether that is a good or bad event. It seems to me that in large communities, that have high poverty rates, could benefit from such stores giving people more bang for their buck by offering things at cheaper prices. The building of this store in any event would help to create jobs that are accessible to all people of a community but at the same time demolish smaller family owned stores because they could not compete with the prices of big business. In the end though I do not think that the answer is ban Wal-Mart, but rather encourage them to move the location of the store to outside of the city so that the local stores can remain active, because after all the family owned businesses are what makes a community.
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