Mega Foods Wet. Lowes Moving In?
One of our tipsters seems to be watching a lot of news lately. We’ll begin with the story about Mega Foods having a little water issue yesterday. That was reported in several news sources. On King5 news an employee said “we were going to close in a few weeks anyways”. Q13 stated that the store will be torn down. A few weeks ago Lowes announced a store would be going in around 72nd & I-5. I found the press release, but it doesn’t mention the address of their new store. Is the Mega Foods on I-5 the location of our newest Lowes?
5 comments
J Jesse December 27, 2011
Put it downtown. We need foot traffic.
T tacoma1 December 27, 2011
The tacoma weekly piece is just a free P R piece authored by Wally. Nothing new, or informative in it.
T talus December 28, 2011
Looks mailed in from the Bentonville HQ with only minor tailoring for the local audience. Makes you think they think we’re either dumb or that making this store a reality isn’t a high priority for them. Almost certainly the former, and the latter if we’re lucky.
H Holly D'Annunzio December 28, 2011
There are a lot of studies that explain why a city and their citizens should reject another big retailer absent a rapidly growing population and income base. In summary, the new retailer just takes market share from existing retailers leaving a lot of empty buildings and lowered property values around those empty buildings. It takes a few years for this transition to occur but the pain is felt widely while transferring the gain to one newly happy property owner and the retail firm (and in the case of Walmart transferring a portion of the gain to China where most products are sourced.) China, a country with the largest espionage program aimed at the U.S. and its corporations, is building up their military with money made on our purchases. Let’s be mindful of the long term effects of our decisons!
S steve dunkelberger January 4, 2012
A small point: The Guest editorial was branded as such in the print edition of the newspaper, and seems clear online with the mentioning of his position with Walmart. But that should have been made even more clear since there seems to be a confusion with this editorial being seen by many as a news article.
Everyone, even retail giants, can state their opinions. The publication of said opinion has clearly prompted more discussion of such matters, which is the point of a newspaper.