Originally posted by DragonsDomain
It was interesting, however, to see that many communities had managed to overturn Wal-Mart's planning permissions in their towns, and drive them out!

I wish my city could have done this. Had a Wal-mart centrally located in the city, but they wanted a super wal-mart and the space wasn't big enough. So they built a brand new spanking wal-mart way on the other side of the city. Soon after the smaller business surronding it died out, the bigger companies(Bockbuster) moved to a diffrent location. Now we have a pretty much an empty strip mall in the middle of the city. Now Wal-mart went well out of their way to build another super wal-mart on the other side of the city.(We aren't even that big...) There was a lot of people oppsing it because it was close to a school... so they said they'd move the access road to the school, etc. Now we are going to have two super wal-marts!? On oppisite sides of the city? Major highway closed due to it,(plus they are putting in more round abouts off of and on the highway... ick...)