[StBernard] Target, Wal-Mart Check Out St. Bernard

[Westley Annis]

That's quite an excuse. When I was harpooned to a little "village" called
Waynesboro, Georgia there was a "Super Wal-Mart" built 2 yrs ago. It has but
a population of 5813 and "dying" in an area of under 6 sq. miles. 

You tell me that 30,000 people plus surrounding Chocolate City inhabitants
supporting the St. Bernard store can't support it! 

http://waynesboro.georgia.gov/05/home/0,2230,8308414,00.html;jsessionid=42F7
5887928EAA51F8A5D6E8CF5348EF

Perhaps someone who can speak for da parish (well, it usually is the Parish
President/Economic Development Director) can get off their duffs and earn
their keep.

JR says, we'll see if they can in a year. If it were me in the role of
government, I'd see to it getting established in a considerably less degree
of time. (but of course, Jr. doesn't use a computer perhaps and know
research is a marvelous tool?) (heaven help da parish if JR gets back
in...). 

--jer--


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Target, Wal-Mart Check Out St. Bernard

POSTED: 1:04 pm CDT October 17, 2007
UPDATED: 5:34 pm CDT October 17, 2007


CHALMETTE, La. -- Target and Wal-Mart are looking at St. Bernard Parish to
decide if they'll open stores there.

A corporate team from Target will tour the hard-hit parish next week and
meet with parish leaders.

Wal-Mart executives did the same last week.

"They're coming in about a year, supposedly, but we've heard that before,"
Parish President Junior Rodriguez said.

The two companies are trying to decide whether or not St. Bernard is a
viable market based on population.

"We need at least 45,000 people. We only have 30,000 people," Rodriguez
said.

But resident Richard Totorico said both stores are missing out on a big
opportunity.

"Thirty-thousand people need everything to rebuild. They will buy double
what people in other areas would buy," he said.

Beside not having a big retailer in town, people in the parish say they're
not happy about seeing their tax dollars go to other areas when they go out
of the parish to shop.