California Supreme Court says cities can ban Wal-Mart stores

Good for CA!

Since the California Supreme Court has ruled Walmart cannot open their "Big Box" stores, what other type of business can the communities refuse?

Maybe anytype that the community leaders have an interest in? They can now write an ordinance to cover anything they want. This should get interesting since the way this ruling is stated, the public good is not to be considered. Only the action of the people that are currently ruling.

The salient aspect of foreign-based (out-of-state) retailers never debated or reported is after a retailer like Wal-Mart pays retail-level wages, all profits get exported to Bentonville, Arkansas or in the case of Home Depot, to Atlanta, Georgia.

The higher paid executives and contractors based locally to the headquarters of these enterprises are the ones that receive the lion's share of profits.

These profits circulate in the local region of the headquarters making those persons richer at the expense of those persons buying the "imported" products of the foreign-based (out-of-state) big-box retailer.

California must change its rules to encourage corporate enterprises to choose California as the home for their headquarters, keeping profits within the state.

Pier,
You have to be kidding me!!
Who would want to do business in the People's Republic of California? It is the worst state in the Union to try to conduct business in.
It appears to me they are changing their rules to discourage corporate enterprises from choosing California. Too many laws are not a good thing, and this latest one is just the tip of the iceberg.

In my home town of Hayward, WI, since the mega store of Wal-Mart was built about three years ago, every store that handles the same merchandise as Wal-Mart (including groceries) is on the verge of closing down, or is struggling to keep open.

They pay at the minumum wage scale, and refuse to allow unions as I understand.

Warren Ogren
10036 N Ogren Road
Hayward, WI 54843
warogren@cheqnet.net

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In my home town of Hayward, WI, since the mega store of Wal-Mart was built about three years ago, every store that handles the same merchandise as Wal-Mart (including groceries) is on the verge of closing down, or is struggling to keep open.

They pay at the minumum wage scale, and refuse to allow unions as I understand.

The conflicts between consumer and investor seems to be becoming a much more frequent problem and is worsened by the fact that today, with the much greater and easier access to the investment markets, that the consumer and investor are often one in the same.

As investors we want the growth and higher earnings and then as consumers we complain when the company moves into our neighborhood or moves its production overseas to investor demands. The consuming investor can't have it both ways.

WalMart and the mega stores don't destroy the local surrounding business communities...that destruction comes from local people who stop shopping at non-competative local stores so that they can save a few bucks on their groceries and other items. Many of these local shopping communities were already doomed by the incursion of nearby malls that provide entertainment, restaurants and become destinations drawing people away from the local mom-pop retailers.

The title is misleading. Communities have the right to control size, appearance and any number of other characteristics, but current prececent would prevent a community from banning a corproation based on who owns it -- a result of the legal doctrine of "corporate personhood."

kudos to cali !! finally a state in our union with the integrity to allow the people to decide what is or isn't going to reside and contribute to thier individual neighborhoods and towns !! it is a fact folks, that walmart is destructive to the american dream and the american standard of living.
this country really needs to get it's head out of it's ass and other states need to do whats right by the american people such as california has done.