It's become clear that it's never been more important to shop local. With the threat of not just one, but two Walmart Neighborhood Markets making their way seemingly unobstructed into Altadena, it's time to step up education on why we need our local shops. This poster, provided by the lovely folks at The American Independent Business Alliance, give you the facts. Walmart gives you fantasy. As our friends at Main And Me portray in this poster, this could be your shopping experience in our lovely town someday soon:
However you view the situation, we always advise shopping with your local merchants. After all, is Walmart going to buy your kids' school fundraisers? Will they support the local Little League team? Sure, they'll throw some money at local non-profits, but what about our Library? Will they support them in a sustainable way? I think not. Let us end with this poster, also from Main and Me, and remember - we have Friends Of The Altadena Library canvas tote-bags and Altadena Library District tee-shirts for sale at the store and the Library gets 100% of sales!*
Thanks for listening, my friends, we'll talk again next week!
Lori and Scott
*We also have items from Christmas Tree Lane available and they get 75% of net sales!
3 comments:
Is there no stopping this? Or does a majority of the community want the WalMart? I think it's going to affect Pasadena, too, and I'm afraid Pasadena is asleep at this particular wheel.
Petrea, we have a petition circulating that requests the LA County Board Of Supervisors to place a moratorium on chain businesses over 15,000 square feet entering LA County without a Conditional Use Permit. This morning, 1,566 signatures on this petition will be presented at the Supervisors' meeting and we expect that they will place our request on their agenda.
If the moratorium is placed, then we have a chance to fight the Walmart invasion, for neither of the locations currently require a C.U.P. - they're going in "by right", allowing Walmart to side-step any enviornmental or traffic studies, regulation on hours or deliveries.
I'm afraid you're right about Pasadena. So far, the City Council has kept Walmart at bay, but WM is being excessively aggressive in their pursuit of becoming California's ONLY grocery store. This is an outrage and is contrary to how the majority feel. It doesn't help that WM is presenting their smaller "Neighborhood Market" as "just a grocery store".....I'm afraid that we will get fooled again.
See also http://www.savealtadena.com
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