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A town fighting the construction of a new Wal-Mart Supercenter is hardly news worthy anymore. A town using their opposition as a bargaining tool for economic development kind of is...
An economically depressed former textile community in the Pee-Dee region of South Carolina has taken a novel approach to lessinging the percieved damage done to the local economy, and the American textile industry at large, by offering to drop their opposition to the Supercenter's construction if Wal-Mart agrees to buy garments made at the local mill.
Here's the link to the news story
I for one think this is a fairly good idea. Althou, I'd be suprised if Wal-Mart goes for it. Wal-Mart get's to make money on selling to the people of the community and the people of the community get to purchase these goods because they have places to work other than Wal-Mart.
Any thoughts?
An economically depressed former textile community in the Pee-Dee region of South Carolina has taken a novel approach to lessinging the percieved damage done to the local economy, and the American textile industry at large, by offering to drop their opposition to the Supercenter's construction if Wal-Mart agrees to buy garments made at the local mill.
Here's the link to the news story
I for one think this is a fairly good idea. Althou, I'd be suprised if Wal-Mart goes for it. Wal-Mart get's to make money on selling to the people of the community and the people of the community get to purchase these goods because they have places to work other than Wal-Mart.
Any thoughts?