At least nine vacant Wal-Mart stores grace the North Carolina landscape, state-wide -- the equivalent of 12 football fields. (This and other cheerful facts ... here.)
There are 350 vacant Wal-Mart stores nationwide.
Why? Wal-Mart has discovered that SuperCenters are way more profitable, so they're building them and abandoning the old discount store spaces. Currently, in North Carolina there are 81 Wal-Mart SuperCenters and only 34 regular-size stores. Boone has one of those ... which Wal-Mart would blithely abandon for the opportunity of having a humongous SuperCenter.
Monday, September 18, 2006
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