What will happen to the town left when the large shopping mall withdraws?

ByNicholas Eckhart

World's largest supermarket chain "Wal-Mart", centered on the United StatesDevelop business in 15 countries around the worlddoing. It is a very convenient shop where all shopping is completed at one place for users because it handles all kinds of items from daily necessities to consumer electronics as well as foodstuffs but in January 2016 it opened 154 shops in the United States As a result of the simultaneous closure of the town, the small town is affected to such extent as to be devastatingly damaged.

What happens to a tiny town when Walmart disappears? - The Washington Post
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In January 2016 Wal-Mart announced the closed list of unprofitable stores and closed 154 shops. The nearest Wal-Mart was also closed in Kimball, an old coal mine city in West Virginia. Kimball has been exposed to the crisis of the town's disappearance due to the disappearance of the mine, but the fact that Wal-Mart was made ten years ago made it possible for neighboring residents to get what they needed for their lives, I was supporting the life of. However, with the withdrawal of Wal-Mart, Kimball may be subject to the crisis of annihilation again.

Until now, Wal-Mart has made advancements to the sub-suburbs of the United States, but existing retailers can not compete against the large-scale general store of "Wal-Mart price" cheaper than the average due to the power of large chains, Like a black hole, we attracted shoppers all over the region.

Withdrawing such Wal-Mart is not limited to the problem of "a convenient supermarket disappears", but more various influences are expected. For example, Wal-Mart was doing, the main area of ​​the areaFood bankActivities as will be stopped. Also, the existence of Wal-Mart is an important tax revenue source for cities, and taxes of 65,000 dollars (about 7.6 million yen) are paid annually to a certain province, and they were allocated to the school district of the area, but withdrawal Tax revenue will be lost as a result. Depending on the city, there is a possibility that it leads to layoffs of civil servants because of the tax revenue reduction due to the withdrawal of Walmart.

In addition, Wal-Mart has established measures to allow employees to transfer to another workplace when closing a store, but all workers will work at a different store far away, so it will be unusual for Wal-Mart to continue working on the same employment conditions as before There is also a problem that the difficulty is left, and the state may possibly be pressed for employment measures.

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According to the analysis by The Washington Post, Wal-Mart's announced closed stores list is a store in relatively low-income areas. "ILSR(Local autonomous research institute) ", 89% of the stores listed on the closing list show that the area per capita is in the state (population is smaller) than the average, and the closing list 95 % Knows that it is a store with another store within 10 miles (about 16 km). ILSR director says, "Large-scale retail chains may build facilities beyond demand to gain market share, but excess capacity will become unnecessary as online sales increase." I analyze it.

Wal-mart announced that the closure of the store is "based on performance", but in the vicinity of Kimball a lot of people are using Wal-Mart, the user said "Because the parking lot was buried to a certain extent every day, performance was bad I can not believe it was. " In this way, Wal-Mart is withdrawing all of Wal-Mart, which has great influence on the outskirts of the United States, but some states have offered donation of facilities such as old buildings to keep Wal-Mart from withdrawing. Wal-Mart said that he did not give a specific response to this request.