Yucca Valley, CA. We Don’t Need Another Wal-Mart

Reader’s letter: We don’t need another Wal-Mart [Hi-Desert Star (Calif.)]

In response to Karen Perry’s article on Aug. 22, she is right, we don’t need a Wal-Mart in this area. I don’t know why the city powers to be did not put it up to a vote of the people in the area like other cities did. Except for more money coming into the town. I know several people that do not want a Super Wal-Mart. We don’t need another grocery store, 16-bay service station and another bank. The Wal-Mart that we have is just fine. We don’t need this type of store taking over the whole town and putting other businesses out of business.

What we do need is more good restaurants, a Trader Joe’s, Target and maybe a Costco.

I was in the new Super Wal-Mart down in Rancho Mirage the other day to just see what it was like, and it was awful, way too big and things all over the floors. I could not find a thing I wanted or a sales clerk. The whole store was a mess. I swore that I would never go back into another Super Wal-Mart. I don’t like Wal-Mart the way they used the employees at such low wages. As it is I would keep going down the hill to do my shopping, I make fun day out of it.

Penny Wright
Yucca Valley

Posted by Alex Goldschmidt on Wednesday, September 12, 2007