Supercenters have always been part of our lives; they are those big stores that are the size of football fields. In San Diego, there have been many heated debates about them. The council wants to ban the Supercenters and have tried to do so, only to have the mayor veto the ban.
This time around, instead of outright banning the stores, the council wants to put restrictions on new, incoming Supercenters. It will not affect the ones that already exist. Even knowing this, Wal-Mart challenges it. In fact, Wal-Mart stated that if this gets passed the company would begin to build its stores elsewhere.
Even after hearing this threat, there are still supporters of banning Supercenters outright. Several other people have argued that it is up to the consumers to where he or she desires to shop.
The big problem of this is the jobs available. The Sand Diego Council thinks that if the Supercenters would be removed then many more construction jobs and employment jobs will enter the market. The City's Independent Budget Analysist looked at the economic impact of Supercenters and found the studies to be inconsistent. There is a positive impact to this and a negative one. The only real situation that would change in this is where the sales taxes would come from; Supercenters will replace the missing sales taxes from the small retailers.
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I know super-centers are unpopular right now but their prices are hard to beat. My town is very poor and most people can only afford to get their goods and groceries at Wal-mart. They aren't poor because small businesses are gone. They are poor because the union factory workers went on strike to get paid $40 an hour, so the factories shut down and went to Mexico.
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