Wal-Mart Banned - Doing Business
City Council Votes
to Bar 24-Hour Wal-Mart
Well there they go again.
LIVONIA, Mich. - The
city council in this Detroit suburb voted unanimously to bar a planned Wal-Mart from
being open 24 hours a day. Developers of the proposed 204,000-square-foot store said
they were disappointed at the vote Wednesday night to limit store hours to 6 a.m.
to midnight. “We’ve worked for years to produce a plan that is satisfactory to the citizens
… officials and staff,” developer Robert Schostak said. “We’re back to square one.
It’s not done yet.”>
This is absolutely unbelievable. The city of Livonia bans Wal-Mart from collecting
taxes for the city and the state. Do they not realize how many jobs they just eliminated?
Do they not realize the number of hours that potential employees will not be able
to work?They have barred Wal-Mart from being open for 6 hours a day, that is 42 hours a week
and let’s be conservative and say they need 10 employees to work those hours, which
is 420 hours. Now go and multiple that by say 10 dollars an hour, which is $4,200
in wages that will not be realized and be left out of the pockets of people that probably
really need it.I cannot even begin to determine how much lost revenue that this will be. Do you think
the folks that wanted or need something at say 2 o’clock in the morning are just going
to wait? Maybe, or they will go so where else that is open and buy it there. Say at
a convenience store where they will may a premium for the item. This certainly does
no favors for the poor does it?So, good going there citizens of Livonia, you are only hurting yourselves.