How much is Wal-Mart really costing North Mesquite???

Across the country Wal-Mart has made a practice of taking over and changing communities… and not in a good way. Wal-Mart's goal is to drive out the neighboring competition and when Wal-Mart stands alone, prices go up, brands change and the quality of products is lowered!

When the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market, located at 915 N Town East Blvd, was completed and opened just a few years ago. It appeared that the prices and the quality of the products offered another convenient alternative shopping location. Many good brand names and quality meats and produce.

Let's skip forward to the present time and look at the variety of quality competition in North Mesquite.

• Albertsons Galloway - Gone
• Albertsons Oates - Gone
• Several off brand low-end grocery stores have replace other groceries

Now that Albertsons has vacated North Mesquite, let's go back to the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market at 915 N Town East Blvd and do a little shopping:

Surprise, Surprise....

• Quality meats have all but evaporated. What they are now offering is some of the worst, low-quality meats at high prices. At any quality grocery store if you buy a Rib-Eye steak, it should be and will be tasty and tender. Not so at the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market NOW. Most of the meat is tuff, tasteless and over priced possibly from old dairy cows instead of cattle primarily raised for beef.
• How about the can goods. The shelve space is now 30% less and most are off brands at ridiculous prices.
• The produce now looks like it sat in a open market for a week before arriving in the store.
• Many of your favorite brands are no longer on the shelves

Oh my North Mesquite, we were sold a bill of goods with this one!! It appears the the public relations team at Wal-Mart surely know how to convince cities that they will help the community and bring in much needed revenue to the city. What they neglect to tell everyone is how they will bully out the quality grocery stores and then change their inventory to off brands and raise prices.

Let's face it. We do not have any good alternative for quality meats or products now in North Mesquite other then Krogers way out on Town East Blvd. and Motley. And that is exactly where we now go to shop!

Driving out the competition and driving down the standard of living is not good for North Mesquite. Wal-Mart is not good for our community. Please continue to support local businesses that conduct their business responsibly and support a meaningful standard of living in our community.

It's time to tell your city council that we are fed up with this style of business in North Mesquite and that they need to fine some alternatives to keep quality shopping in North Mesquite. One would have to be blind not to see all the quality stores that have left North Mesquite.

To learn more about the Wal-Mart Workers Nationwide Campaign, visit the web site of the United Food and Commercial Workers. This information has been provided by Andrea Goldberger, UFCW Union Local One. 315/ 797-9601, ext. 2298. In 2003, the Eighth Annual 40 hour Fast has drawn attention to New York's retail clerks who work long hours with little pay in the growing low wage economy. The Fast is a time of prayer, reflection, advocacy, learning, sacrifice and action sponsored by the New York State Labor-Religion Coalition.

A very concerned resident of Mesquite.
12/18/04

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