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One issue that is often overlooked is that when a large store like walmart opens up in a strip mall type thing in a small town the town loses money. Breaking even is often a good thing. I live in sturbridge. Bout 8 years ago a walmart opened up, with a stop and shop, gap, ole navy, pier 1 and a few others. The town actually wound up losing money on the deal. The megaretailers really tax our emergency services, the police, fire etc. Add 5000 extra cars to a small town and there are a lot more traffic accidents and shoplifting, all requiring the authorities that i get to pay for. Also, road maintence, thats a lot of traffic and a lot of heavy trucks, ya think walmart flips the bill for that.
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