Wal-Mart’s Expansion into Smaller Towns
Number of pages:
4
ABSTRACT:
A 4 page paper discussing a case in which the town of Petoskey, Michigan is contemplating allowing Wal-Mart to build on a parcel of farmland it owns and to operate in this small town of more resort residents than permanent ones. The recommendation – written from the perspective of a Wal-Mart district manager – is to continue according to Wal-Mart’s well-established pattern, at least in gaining legal permission to build and operate a store in the Petoskey area. Wal-Mart should aspire on a corporate level to a higher moral plane, however. Certainly the company benefits from having little or no competition in the local area, but only superficially and only for the relative short term. Whatever hurts the local economy ultimately will hurt Wal-Mart as well, and it should be striving to become a good corporate neighbor rather than behaving as the bully on the block. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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