MrBillM
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Bad News for the Baja Luddites
Walmart in Mexico (WalMex) will spend around $700 Million dollars in expansion.
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Bruce R Leech
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yes they are going to put a new walmart and Costco in Mulege next year. some people are fighting it but it looks like a done deal. if you have the
bucks you can do anything you want in Mexico.
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Tucker
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Years back, I swore that....
If ever McD's came to La Paz I would leave, they did, I didn't. Now two McD's, Burger King City Club, they beat me down! Now I am ready for a big
WalMart!
\"I think it would be a good idea.\"
-- Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization
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Bruce R Leech
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Tucker
If ever McD's came to La Paz I would leave, they did, I didn't. Now two McD's, Burger King City Club, they beat me down! Now I am ready for a big
WalMart! |
yes Tucker it is a shame but I'm afraid it is coming. I'm going to watch you and when you leave I am going to be right behind you .
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bajalou
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Here in San Felipe, the local grocery stores - no big chains like Leys or Gigantica - almost all have Kirland products on their shelves. It's is very
few of the local Mexicans who can go to Mexicali to Costco. The local grocers find the products and prices at Costco - Sams etc competitave with the
suppliers they were forced to use prior to Costco. I see a fair precentage of the shoppers at Costco filling flatbeds with products to stock stores
and small resturants in their communities. We have to remember that the poorer locals do not have Costco or Sam's cards, nor the transportation or
money to stock up in the quatities they make you buy. The new Mega stores in Mexicali constantly compare and underprice Walmart in Mexicali. I don't
see these stores as total destruction of the small stores. True, Americans buy there, but how many Americans are buying anything at the small tienda
in a commmunity anyway. It apears to me that they have just given the small Mexican stores more choices in thier purchases.
[Edited on 4-1-2005 by bajalou]
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Packoderm
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For them to be able to dominate and eclipse other businesses, they are going to need to lower costs wherever possible. Maybe they can import Chinese
illegal immigrants into Mexico.
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Sharksbaja
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a new airport too.....
yep, a new Wally World and a new International airport in Mulege to boot. Makes ya feel right at home don't it.....boy those demographic guys are on
it! I think the Canadians are behind it all. Bruce, quit spilling all the beans. You know how people will move to another country/town/planet just to
be next to a cozy little Wal-Mart.          :moon:              
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aldosalato
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There will be no Wal-Mart and no international airport in Mulege' anytime soon. You can bet on it.
Simply there is not enough people and not enough tourism there.
Maybe in 10 years time
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Mexitron
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Walmart in Mulege? That has to be an April Fool's joke......please
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aldosalato
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April fool!
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Packoderm
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To tell the truth, it didn't seem so improbable as to be so outrageous. I didn't see any reason to doubt that it wasn't really going to happen.
I thought it was meant that the whole thread was an April Fools joke.
[Edited on 07/17/2004 by Packoderm]
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roundtuit
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Big Bucks
Sorry to say but I will bet within the next 5 yrs there will be a golf course and a housing tract
just south of the Pemex. Buy Now Sell Tomorrow
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Bruce R Leech
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| Quote: | Originally posted by aldosalato
There will be no Wal-Mart and no international airport in Mulege' anytime soon. You can bet on it.
Simply there is not enough people and not enough tourism there.
Maybe in 10 years time |
these are to be the new mini versions with only one employee.
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Keri
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Thanks for that last comment Bruce
I thought you had been drinking to much tequila . Mulege doesn't even have enough people to support a bank let alone anything else. I don't think you
will see a walmart or costco there even in ten years. Loreto maybe but not Mulege. k
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tim40
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"Nothing" would surprise me...
We need to get some good 'bandito and peso collapse' stories generating....Where is all of the Baja fear when you need it?
When searching for the end of your rainbow you only have until dusk....
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Bruce R Leech
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ok Im thinking
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jrbaja
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When Loreto is full
Mulege will be next. Save the clam!!!!
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