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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
where've you been?
TAos New Mexico
Santa Fe New Mexico
Boulder Colorado
Gig Harbor Washington
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*IF* you read my response, you'll see I was saying it's illegal to keep Walmart out while letting other big box stores (e.g. Target, KMart) in. The cities you cited either failed to keep Walmart out (Walmart -
www.walmart.com, 926 Paseo Del Pueblo Sur, Taos - (575) 758-1136) ( Walmart -
www.walmart.com, 3251 Cerrillos Rd, Santa Fe - (505) 474-4727) or have, as far as I can tell, kept out all big box stores. The latter is legal-zoning requests based on store size, etc. But *not* based on who the store is. That is what I said was illegal-and I stand by that.
(BTW, as I said in an earlier reply, it's quite possible that cities have passed laws specifically barring Walmart, by name. Although those laws might not have been challenged yet, I firmly believe they will be struck down when they are. Blocking an entire industry/type of business can legally be done. Blocking a specific business cannot. Um, except possibly due to criminal record of the business owners. And I'm not aware of any criminal convictions of Walmart. (I wouldn't be surprised if there were some of members of the Walton family, but unless you can charge Walmart under RICO or something, I'm not sure that would be relevant.)