Hiring an Expert
Examples and Resources
Impact of Wal-Mart Stores on Other Businesses In Iowa (1989)
Ken Stone. “After 5 years, the towns within a 20 mile radius of a Wal-Mart store had cumulative net sales reductions of 25.4%, while the same size towns much further away had sales reductions of only 187.6%…Some people misinterpret the sales changes after a Wal-Mart store comes into a town. They…
Impact of Wal-Mart Store on Greenfield, Massachusetts (1993)
RKG Associates. This study, which was paid for by Wal-Mart, but produced by an “independent” analyst from New Hampshire, showed that under a “high impact” scenario, Wal-Mart would have a very significant adverse impact on existing downtown merchants, and on jobs. The construction of a Wal-Mart…
Impact of An Anticipated Wal-Mart On the Northern Neck, VA. (1999)
Tom Muller. “Local merchants would lose a majority of sales to Wal-Mart. The actual
percentages vary from 18% to 60% assuming a 30% recapture rate…the reduction in
property values would be $3.6 million to $4.5 million…Unlike manufacturing, new retail
creates no jobs at the…
Fiscal & Economic Impact of Leominster Shopping Center (2003)
Tom Muller. “A new supercenter Wal-Mart can actually cause an actual decline in fulltime equivalent retail jobs…it takes fewer workers per employee to sell products at Wal-Mart compared to other department-type stores…No net additions to retail jobs in the region are anticipated. The additional…
Fiscal Impact Analysis of Residential and Nonresidential Land Use Prototypes (2002)
Tischler Associates for Barnstable, MA. This impact study was produced for a town, not for a developer, so it did not have to reach a conclusion that favored any group that paid for it. Shows that big retail projects can lose money for a town. “The big box retail prototype generates an annual deficit…
Final Report On Research For Big Box Retail/Superstore Ordinance (2003)
Rodino Associates for the Los Angeles Community Development Department. “Big box retailers and superstores may negatively impact the retail labor market in an area by converting union-scale retail jobs to a fewer number of lower paying retail jobs. The difference in overall compensation (wages and…
