Home is where they hang up Wal-Mart

[KG]

When their strip mall became their home, it put a dent in a plan to build a Supercenter. They say that's not why they did it, though.
By COLLEEN JENKINS, Times Staff Writer
Published April 29, 2004

CRYSTAL RIVER - Even with the brown slippers by the bed and the pill bottle on the nightstand, it's hard to see this strip mall as a home.

The neighbors include a title company, a beauty shop and the JMJ Oriental Food Mart. Traffic whizzes by 100 feet away on U.S. 19.

For this, Rodger and Renee McPheeters left their $345,000 waterfront home on Kings Bay.

The strip mall is part of 500 acres the city of Crystal River annexed this week, a first step in ushering in a new Wal-Mart Supercenter. City leaders hoped to annex the land without a vote.

But the McPheeterses own the strip mall and oppose the annexation. By moving in, the couple hopes eventually to force the city to hold a referendum of voters in the annexation area.

The McPheeterses would be the only two voters.

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[JanMichael]

1. WalMartzilla is such crap. It seems like I have to explain *why* they suck

...almost every day.

Even today at lunch with someone who should know better than to shop there!

The stock answer is becoming, "Because it's the largest employer in America and a wage depressing, benefit hosing, sprawl inducing, Plutocrat paying, welfare creating, union busting, low wage, anti-democratic, slave labour selling, piece if shit."

[KG]

2. ya, but i can get suave shampoo there for 88 cents!

oy.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. Wow Michael..thanks for paring it down to a sentence

Can I steal it when necessary?

[JanMichael]

5. Think of it as Linux. Add to it, make it better!

I forgot "Mom and Pop Killin'":silly:

[fearnobush]

3. Rock on and defeat Whore-Mart.

Really Cheap goods brake often and have poor quality, just like the really cheap jobs they create. Boycott Wal-Mart.