Yep, State Road between Old State Road and US-12 in September and October, will be closed to through traffic to make improvements on the roadway for the new Wal-Mart which will open at State Road and Michigan Avenue.
You get inconvenienced, and Wal-Mart makes the profit. It's how America works now. Your local governments are subsidiaries of huge corporations and will bend over backwards to give them what they want to 9 times out of 10. Before you start the 'but they bring jobs' lecture, yeah, they lock people in their stores, have been sued and shown to force workers to work for free, and since they won't give the employees insurance or full 40 hour a week jobs in most cases they ALSO teach them how to apply for state assistance. Yep, Wal-Mart teaches employees exactly where to go and what to fill out to get state assistance. NICE.
Think on that while you find a different route out that way this fall.
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EXACTLY right Johnny. As a Sams Club former employee, I can attest that I was LOCKED in the store until it was cleaned up and NOT paid for it either.
I don't really shop at Walmart anymore because of the unfair practices, but with the financial issues going on today, EVERYBODY is looking to save where they can.
The JOBS Wal-Mart brings in are nowhere near the payback to the local economy the shuttering of mom n pop stores that seems to take place whenever a Wal-Mart moves in, the tax giveaways to them have to be paid for by SOMEBODY in the community in which they move and the lawsuits that seem to follow Wal-Mart wherever they go.
Not to mention the lawsuit Wal-Mart lost recently about stifling women in the workplace. Does THAT represent Washtenaw County's VALUES?
Of course it doesn't.
Unfortunately, the BIG picture is not taken into consideration when a Walmart or Sams moves into a community.
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