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NO WalMart PLEASE!
I live in Harrisburg, NC, a small town just outside of Charlotte. We have about 7000 households at this time, and just about everyone who lives here loves the idea of knowing people at the grocery store or the local Chinese place or at church.
We don't currently have a lot of shopping here-a few locally owned businesses and the like.  But we're okay with that, since we're less than 10 minutes from Concord Mills mall and roughly 20 minutes to ANYTHING you might want to purchase. 
Wal-Mart has been trying to establish a presence here.  They bought a parcel of land on Highway 49, our main thoroughfare in town, and a firestorm started to fight them. 
Looks like Wal-Mart would bring an additional 40000 cars a day to an already busy road.  The parcel of land backs up to a residential housing development.  We don't have full-time police officers in our townTwo of the stores that have big crime problems are within 15 miles of Harrisburg and Wal-Mart will close those stores when this one opensWal-Mart pays employees an average of $9.71 per hour with no benefits.The town council and mayor wanted to approve the rezoning request, citing the addition to ... more

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