SoWalMart Grand Oening Wednesday June 15th, 2011

There are any number of Publix employees in the area that have been with the company since their first Okaloosa/Walton store opened in 2000. Given that there were times since then that the unemployment rate was less than 3% and wages could be surprisingly high for retail work during some of those years, I tend to regard it as an indicator that Publix was a preferred employer even when there were a lot of other retail employment options out there.

 

Of course not, I already said earlier "many businesses". My point is that as a customer, I'm not going makeemployee welfare my primary concern. It's not my jurisdiction and it's an impossible task, though it gives some people the illusion that they are doing the right thing when they target certain particular businesses.

 

i.e. WalMart

 

Retail giant Wal-Mart has announced in recent weeks that, effective immediately, it is cutting as many as 13,000 of what it somehow has the audacity to refer to as "jobs" from its corporate payroll.

According to Wal-Mart representatives, the, for lack of a better word, positions will be cut from the company's underperforming Sam's Club division. Analysts reported that Monday's layoffs marked one of the largest so-called downsizings of what can hardly even be termed employment in the company's history.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/walmart-cuts-over-13000-of-what-it-calls-jobs,2908/

 

Within a few years Costco will somewhere near Sowal and everyone will forget there ever was a Walmart.

 

WJHG recently reported that a new Walmart may be coming in next to Target near Pier Park: http://www.wjhg.com/home/headlines/..._may_open_in_Panama_City_Beach_124617769.html

 

Just what the area needs - MORE Wal-marts! Grrr!

 

Id this in addition to or a replacement for the one by the Boardwalk Beach Resort?

 

According to the report, this will be the second Walmart in PCB and the other one will remain open. This one is supposed to be about 2/3 the size of the other one.

 

They are flying a plane with a wal-mart banner behind it. Really? :roll:

 

LOL YES they are Sunspotbaby!!! I was floating on my back in the gulf yesterday. First plane goes by WACHOVIA IS NOW WELLS FARGO next plane goes by WALMART IN SANTA ROSA BEACH IS NOW OPEN.

 

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Time to float on your front!........


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in fla you get screwed with bogo at publix.in ga you only have to buy 1 item and its 1/2 off. in fla you must buy both items to get the bogo. but many things in bogo kill walmart. such as a-1 steak sause, lean quisine family sized bogo,35 oz box for $3 each,many of the cereals at bogo.many of the home cleaning products are bogo. my favorite store is costco hands down but none near sowa

 

Has anyone been to dollar store? Is it worth a trip?

 

Dollar General is VERY nice. Small, organized, quick, great prices on most everything. I especially love the DG brand stuff (Clover Valley??).