Check out a Kansas City social media fight against discount prices at a terrible cost . . .
Waldonians Against Wallmart
Yes, they're spelling it incorrectly on purpose because they say FB won't let them keep the page any other way.
The About section . . .
"A Wal-mart Neighborhood Market is wanting to move to Waldo. JUST SAY NO! Like this page to let Wal-mart know that you will not support their store."
To wit . . .
RECENTLY, THE TOPIC OF WAL-MART HATERATION WAS ON BLAST AT CITY HALL AND MOST OF THE COUNCIL SEEMED UNCONCERNED ABOUT THE CONTROVERSY AND NEIGHBORHOOD OPPOSITION!!!
Still, in a rare moment of inspiration . . . Council Dude Jim Glover stood up and talked about the topic in relation to schools and zoning . . .
The Councilman said: "It's not the KC School District that has failed us, it's Kansas City that has failed the School District."
It was a nice thought . . . Zoning Ordinances passed anyhoo . . .
Still the fight against low prices continues in the Kansas City Waldo enclave.
DEVELOPING . . .
Walmart is the Great Plague of the modern world. A virus sucking the life out of everything in it's path.
ReplyDeleteWhy??? Its a good store replaceing a eye sore. Nothimg will move in and replace that old.school
ReplyDeleteJan doesn't give a fudge about her district.
ReplyDeleteAin't Jan's district anymore, and John Sharp cares even less
DeleteWaldonians? Holy crap. Those are those really cool people who overpay for dinky homes and then move to Johnson County after their homes are robbed.
ReplyDeleteAnd then tell us how cool they are because they used to live in Waldo...
Where's Waldo?
ReplyDeleteAnd a Walmart here and a Walmart there, here a Walmart there a Walmart everywhere a Walmart, ol McWalmart had a farm e i e i oooooo
ReplyDeleteThey don't want the thugs, lowlifes, and outsiders coming into the area for their essentials. Walmart should build in places where people are under served. Like in the KC Ghettos.
ReplyDeleteOh my god how dare these Un American freaks and traitors protest our beloved Walmart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhats good for Walmart, is good for America.
ReplyDeleteWe'd welcome it in the Third District. What a difference a zip code makes when one is priviledged and the other has been starved so long that Wal-Mart looks like a treasure. We'll take it anyway.
ReplyDeleteBeen down so long looks like up to me?
ReplyDeletePulitzer Prize writers and Nobel laureate economic experts ensure us that Walmart is the most prodigious job creator and economy booster in the known universe.
ReplyDeleteWhy worry?
If you like an economy built on the 99% living in poverty and the 1% living like kings, Wal-Mart is definitely the way to go. Besides, who doesn't like buying poisonous plastic shit that breaks the first time you use it?
ReplyDeleteChoose your leaders wisely, as once you take the first step into hell with them you will not recognize the rest.
ReplyDeleteDinky homes? You mean, the size home people raised larger families than now exist in for fucking decades, centuries even. Like bungalows that were built 100 years ago and are still in better shape, have more character and more class than your reverse 1.5 story ranch will ever have, especially when its leaky crumbling, shittily constructed walls crumble and cave 20 years from now. Sheey-it. Nothing in Johnson County has half the class of Waldo.
ReplyDeleteLOL. Crawl back into your overcompensating, little-dick, beige fake stucco cracker box, culdesucker.
And there it is folks! The post of the year! F-off to everything about JoCo! #suckitKS
DeleteAmen!
DeleteSure are lots of JoCo plate in Waldo every weekend night. Guess those dinky homes and great local bars and restaurants just offer something douche-land doesn't, like a actual neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteAnon 4:42
ReplyDeleteYou must live in a real shithole if you think Waldo is a privileged area.
Nothing like a bunch of sanctamonious old hippies to raise a stink. Wal mart sucks but Aldi is okay, huh?
ReplyDelete5:11 is so underwater with their Waldildo bungalow that they have lost all sanity and poise.
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ReplyDeleteWaldo should be renamed Dildo to honor the kind of dolts who live there.
Probably about 10 nutcases have "united" on Facebook. If you went door-to-door in Waldo--especially in the area close to the ghost of Bingham past (where I live, by the way), you'd find the majority support the WalMart Neighborhood Market.
ReplyDeleteAnd 4:24, this area is no longer in Jan's district. We have to rely on John Sharp, so we're doomed when it come to representation.
I'd much rather see a decent grocery store than a cultural center. The neighborhood has had hears to mobilize and now that someone else is interested in the property they are up in arms
ReplyDeleteSorry--make that "years" to mobilize. A Wal-Mart neighborhood market would not be the end of the world. There are plenty of local outlets for cultural/community activities. My fear is that a local group would not be able to secure the funding to repair and maintain the building and it would continue to deteriorate, albeit a little more slowly.
DeleteI'm sure they all travel to other neighborhoods to shop at Walmart. They just don't want it in their neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteWhich option do Waldonians think would add more value to their property--a new grocery store or a vacant school that hasn't been used in 12 years? And I agree with 8:35. The people who squawk the loudest probably do sneak out of their homes in the dead of night to shop at WalMart. This way they'll save on gas for their groceries anyway.
ReplyDeleteWaldo used to be nice before a bunch of yuppie wannabes who couldn't afford Brookside decided to move here.
ReplyDeleteA grocery store is worse than an abandoned building? WTF?
ReplyDeleteWhy would anyone object to Walmart? I mean hey, they are giving a half million vetrans part time, low paying, no skill, dead end jobs with no healthcare or other benefits .....just like the vendors have out at the stadium.
ReplyDeleteWal Mart's employees are so underpaid that the taxpayers have to pick up the tab for them. To the tune of over $400,000 per store. So yes, I would prefer the abandoned building, thank you very much. And no, 6:35, I don't ever shop at Wal Mart, so kiss my ass and speak for yourself.
ReplyDeleteWe do not need or want a WalMart in our area. Go to 135th or 119th.
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