Don't even try to argue that this proposed legislation is pro-consumer, or is intended to curb sprawl, or will save a small town from annihilation:
Giant and United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 400 are prime advocates of the proposal before the Montgomery County Council. The measure sponsored by County Executive Douglas M. Duncan would impose tough new zoning restrictions on stores that are larger than 120,000 square feet and devote at least 10 percent of their floor space to groceries....The article does relate this neat factoid:It would exempt stores that do not sell food, such as most Target stores and Home Depot, and it would exempt club membership stores such as Costco.
FTN Midwest found that within a year of opening, a Wal-Mart supercenter takes 11 percent of grocery store business within three miles.
Posted by Kevin on June, 15 2004 at 02:20 PM
