On Sep 5, 8:26 pm, "HeyBub" <heybubNOS...@gmail.com> wrote:
> HeyBub wrote:
>
> >> There is no room for a store the size of Wal-Mart in NYC (just in
> >> case you hadn't noticed, there is more to NY than NYC), and it would
> >> be too expensive to tear down existing buildings to build one in
> >> NYC. There are tons of Wal-Marts in NYS.
>
> > Right. There's one in Albany. None in Brooklyn, Bronx, Buffalo, and
> > One in Niagra Falls. One each in Cheektowaga, Hamburg, Amherst,
> > Clarence, Lockport, Batavia, and Fredonia. Among others.
>
> > New York is lip-deep in Walmarts.
>
> I found a page listing state ranking.
>
> New York has 37 WalMart SuperCenters, slightly behind Kansas and Iowa, each
> with 39. But way ahead of New Mexico (28). Texas has 259.
>
> But Texas has more people who need bargains than does New York.
>
> http://www.statemaster.com/graph/lif_wal_sto_num_of_sup-life style-wal...


And still, here in University-town, we have lots of local retailers
who are doing a healthy business. Carpeting, flooring, flower shops,
candy stores, drug stores, tire shops and garages, lumber yards,
landscape nurseries, appliance stores AND one of the country's best-
known non-chain bookstores (Prairie Lights) ... all of these are
possibly (probably) more expensive than Wally World or other chain
stores, but doing nicely just the same. The locally-owned shops
compete not only with a couple Wal-Marts, but also with Iowa's second
biggest mall.

What we don't have is year-round fresh produce of all kinds, given our
climate.

N.