Wal-Mart has Lehigh Township in its sights

Kelly7 wrote:

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Since you're pretty Hanes socks knowledgeable, WHERE can you find the longer, over the calf type? It's the only kind my other half will wear!

Here you go Kelly, I think this is what you want:
http://www.kohls.com/upgrade/webstore/product...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000SKP6HE

Huh what wrote:

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Here you go Kelly, I think this is what you want:
http://www.kohls.com/upgrade/webstore/product...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000SKP6HE

Thank You!

Kelly7 wrote:

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Slatington is a ghost-town because of how it is starting to look like Allentown - all sorts of underage misfits walking the streets trying to look ghetto and tough with their pitbulls. A WalMart in Lehigh Twsp. will affect Boyer's Hardware (really cool store), and the mom & pop stores that are all along Delaware Ave., Palmerton. If I want the WalMart "experience", I can drive south and get the "Allentown" store or drive north to Lehighton. No need for one in the middle!

Couldn't agree with you more Kelly. Except Slatington has looked like that as long I've been here. You can thank the Fed. govt for that. Bring poor people to an area with no jobs.
We need a decent grocery store, we need restuarants, we need more than a Fashion Ug. How many pizza shops are here? Answer TOO many. In 15 years the area has yet to be able to build a community center. If your kids don't play sports, there is absolutely nothing for them to do. The area could support a movie theator, I know many kids that have to get shuffled 15 miles and more to go see a movie. Heck, there's not even a decent enough Lanta bus route to get people to jobs, since there are none up here. How can our children get there 1st job if the only ones available for them are 25 miles away.
I don't, and never have shopped at Walnuts. It is junk and it's junk people don't need. The other poster was right about the quality.
BTW Kelly, K-Mart does have those socks but you realy have to look.

Wrong Location wrote:

Instead of Lehigh Township/Northampton SD, how about building it somewhere in the Northern Lehigh School District?
The schools there sure could use the increased revenues.

Well, please not a Walnut but N.L. needs something much more than Northampton school dist. This dist. doesn't even have enough books! I now here the school is sinking. I don't know if it's a rumor or not. We need industry and jobs, not more places to just buy junk.

Huh what wrote:

Sure, some of the items at Wal-Mart are the same quality. But many are not. Check out the Hanes socks there and elsewhere (they are so cheaply made at Wal-Mart, no full grey bottom, elastic ruined after a few washes).
Plus the prices just aren't that great. Sure, the loss leaders look incredible, but in the regular merchandise you find products that are inferiorly made and just not as cheap as elsewhere. The price also varies greatly from Wal-Mart to Wal-Mart - if they have no competition in the immediate area (like this proposed Lehigh Township store), then you will have the highest prices. It is fact. Compare the prices from the Lehighton Wal-Mart to the Easton one if you are skeptical...
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Wal-mart makes nothing.

Buying American wrote:

No, but the Kmart will probably close up, and there will be a nice big empty building sitting there.

I don't go there often, but everytime I go to that K-Mart it is empty anyway. The Whitehall and Tilghman Street Stores are the same way

greynomo wrote:

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Couldn't agree with you more Kelly. Except Slatington has looked like that as long I've been here. You can thank the Fed. govt for that. Bring poor people to an area with no jobs.
We need a decent grocery store, we need restuarants, we need more than a Fashion Ug. How many pizza shops are here? Answer TOO many. In 15 years the area has yet to be able to build a community center. If your kids don't play sports, there is absolutely nothing for them to do. The area could support a movie theator, I know many kids that have to get shuffled 15 miles and more to go see a movie. Heck, there's not even a decent enough Lanta bus route to get people to jobs, since there are none up here. How can our children get there 1st job if the only ones available for them are 25 miles away.
I don't, and never have shopped at Walnuts. It is junk and it's junk people don't need. The other poster was right about the quality.
BTW Kelly, K-Mart does have those socks but you realy have to look.

Thanks about the sock info:)
You are so right about what is needed there! I'd like to see some worthwhile improvements in the area, and a WalMart or chain pharmacy is NOT an improvement by any way, shape, or form!

walmarts are just going to ruin the area.... this is a pleasant area with alot of people who despise their descisions to create a walmart
HI

It looks like it will be a plesant area with a Wal-Mart

Hey I got an idea! Since every in Walnutport and Slatington make so much money; I will go buy items from Wal-Mart, open up a general store downtown, and you can pay me a dollar above cost for everything. It will be like back in the old days when no one could afford what today we call common items such a tv or microwave, loads of fun!!

Sounds good for my pockets how bout you?

Matt just cause you went to NLHS and now you have a job in Philly you think your cool but your just like everybody else who went to NL dude.

You can't and won't stop a wal mart from coming in any ware. They will come and you won't see k mart or the other stores close. Look in Whitehall there is a k mart and wal mart there and there is a lot of other stores that are still opened. You can't fight a wal mart from coming in any ware. Yes it will bring the people but, there is other wal mart that need employees to work them. And wal mart never keeps there employees long. So the only way to keep out wal mart is don't work for them. But again that's like fighting city hall.

Walmart is perfect for the Lehigh Township, Walnutport, Palmerton, Slatington, Slatedale area. The socio demographics of this geographic area "scream" for a Walmart. Target and Kohls, hah!! No way would these stores locate in that "neck of the woods". On a brighter note, the taxes generated by Walmart will certainly help the coffers of both the Township and Northampton Area School District. This is a no brainer. Competition for the Super Fresh and the Dollar Store is good. Get the Walmart built and move on.

Just remember you "support small local business" monkeys..... Wal-Mart started out small, very small. It became successful primarily due to customer satisfaction and good business decisions. If Wal-Mart comes into a town and a few overpriced, non-competitive, poorly run, inneficient businesses close, you can bet that the jobs lost will only be a small fraction of the jobs created by Wal-Mart and the lost payroll and lost business taxes will be a very small percentage of Wal-Mart's payroll and the taxes paid by Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart's effect on a community is positive in every respect.

hii wrote:

walmarts are just going to ruin the area.... this is a pleasant area with alot of people who despise their descisions to create a walmart
HI

You mean that "lot" of people hired by Weis Markets to form ,oppose and employ a 'citizens opposition'group complete with lawyers and quasi traffic engineers?

more walmarts are needed for the lazy people who are unwilling to travel to the other walmarts that are five miles away from one another, everywhere.

You want to travel a longer distance, you go right on ahead and drive your brains out.

WALMART has arrived in N. Whitehall Township.
WALMART owns land here and they say they are building a store.
WALMART is a taxpayer in N Whitehall Township and as such, they have legal rights just as YOU do.

I will NOT stand by and see there rights violated
and have people like you twist the law to suit yourselves.

14,000 plus people live in NWT, 20 people cry, fuss, and throw temper tamtrums at WALMART.
These people are being paid by a large company to voice their opinions at Township meetings and POSE AS RESIDENTS WHILE DOING SO.
That same company is funneling money into the
(citizens group)bank account and are hired by and being PAID by this other company.

NW Township officials are aware of what's happening as are WALMART officials.

How far and hard WALMART wants to press this is issue is yet to be seen.

Tell you what though, I think the circus could have closed with the last meeting.

NW Township officials think they can attach all sorts of restrictions upon WALMART -SUCH as dictating to WALMART when (what time) WALMART will open and close their store.
THAT...... is a laugh and a half but it just goes to show how clueless the officials of Petticoat junction are here.
IT ALSO sets a subliminal message.

NW Township think they will be setting the WALMART store open and closing times??
What does that say to you?
Tells me that store is about built.
Question remains for us residents of NWT.
HOW much will the new WALMART store cost US AS taxpayers because of the blundering "officials"?

Get these officials on your phone and try to wise them up. I have and I'm not done..........

walking distance wrote:

You want to travel a longer distance, you go right on ahead and drive your brains out.
WALMART has arrived in N. Whitehall Township.
WALMART owns land here and they say they are building a store.
WALMART is a taxpayer in N Whitehall Township and as such, they have legal rights just as YOU do.
I will NOT stand by and see there rights violated
and have people like you twist the law to suit yourselves.
14,000 plus people live in NWT, 20 people cry, fuss, and throw temper tamtrums at WALMART.
These people are being paid by a large company to voice their opinions at Township meetings and POSE AS RESIDENTS WHILE DOING SO.
That same company is funneling money into the
(citizens group)bank account and are hired by and being PAID by this other company.
NW Township officials are aware of what's happening as are WALMART officials.
How far and hard WALMART wants to press this is issue is yet to be seen.
Tell you what though, I think the circus could have closed with the last meeting.
NW Township officials think they can attach all sorts of restrictions upon WALMART -SUCH as dictating to WALMART when (what time) WALMART will open and close their store.
THAT...... is a laugh and a half but it just goes to show how clueless the officials of Petticoat junction are here.
IT ALSO sets a subliminal message.
NW Township think they will be setting the WALMART store open and closing times??
What does that say to you?
Tells me that store is about built.
Question remains for us residents of NWT.
HOW much will the new WALMART store cost US AS taxpayers because of the blundering "officials"?
Get these officials on your phone and try to wise them up. I have and I'm not done..........

nothing wrong with walmart---except when they're right around the block from one another.

and, like starbucks, some of these walmarts will eventually become empty buildings, when the boom eventually goes bust.

rust belt wrote:

<quoted text>nothing wrong with walmart---except when they're right around the block from one another.
and, like starbucks, some of these walmarts will eventually become empty buildings, when the boom eventually goes bust.

Twelve miles to Walmart isn't
"around the block".

WALMART is in Schnecksville and has already set up shop.
Watch for the grand opening.

news to me that people in schnecksville are so poor that nobody has a car in that area---or have lived in that area for decades just waiting for it to be built up.