for some reason this isn’t public knowledge yet but a little bird told me today that Walmart has shown interest in building another one of their SUPERCENTERS close by – in fact – pretty much in my backyard… 3\/4 of a mile away from my house. apparently it is not enough that i can literally travel 6 miles north or 6 miles south and have my pick of Walmarts.<\/p>\n
my question is, “why isn’t it public knowledge?” there should be a vote on such a development especially based on our location. having a commercial<\/span> retailer like this going in will bring in SO much more traffic to an already over-populated intersection. there are NO other commercial<\/span> retailers around us because the area isn’t built for it. but for some reason Walmart thinks it rules the world.<\/p>\n the proposed placement is right on K-7 & Johnson Drive where the old Woodsonia Elementary stood proud. it would have an exit and entry right off of Johnson Drive, K-7 and neighboring housing developments. and because of this it will pose danger to children because of traffic, stranger-danger, etc.<\/p>\n it is true that sometimes developments like Walmart can benefit smaller towns, by bringing in revenue, but in our area – we are not small… we are not poor… we are NOT desperate for Walmart to save us. seriously… this Walmart would basically be in the center of $350K+ homes. which makes this whole development a 100% profit-maker for Walmart and the landowner… and of no benefit to Western Shawnee. it will hurt us by dramatically lowering housing costs, lowering the resale value of homes. and sorry to say, make us look trashy. (oh and my house is no where near $350k – those are on the opposite side of Johnson Drive).<\/p>\n . my efforts could fail but i am not willing to go down without putting up a little bit of a fight. and a united community cannot be silenced.<\/p>\n (i am guilty of feeding the beast by shopping there from time to time and i am not saying Walmart is a bad business – but when it begins creeping into your lap there is something wrong)<\/em><\/p>\n for some reason this isn’t public knowledge yet but a little bird told me today that Walmart has shown interest in building another one of their SUPERCENTERS close by – in fact – pretty much in my backyard… 3\/4 of a mile away from my house. apparently it is not enough that i can literally… Continue reading the walmart takeover and over and over<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,24,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-box-of-chocolates","category-cultural","category-what-the","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nwell little do they know, this little firecracker (that would be me) will do pretty much anything to keep this from happening and for those of you who live nearby – it will affect you so i am requesting your help! more details will come later but i plan to write the mayor of shawnee and begin a door to door signature petition. if you would like to help us in telling the City of Shawnee, NO to Walmart in Western Shawnee let me know or – click here<\/a> – and sign my online petition.<\/p>\n\n