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CRITICS CLAIM SANTA FE 'SUPER CENTER' WOULD HARM LOCAL ECONOMY
A plan to build a new Wal-Mart "super center" on the city's southwest side has raised concerns with the Santa Fe Business Alliance, which supports locally owned businesses, and others, who also see "big-box" stores as a threat to the community's economic vitality .See the full content of this document
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Wal-Mart Plans Raise Hackles
"We're not against the new Wal-Mart, but we do have some questions as to what the real costs are long term for Santa Fe when mega-stores are allowed to come in and do what they do," said David Kaseman, head of the Santa Fe Business Alliance. "Basically, they draw a lot of dollars out of the economy very rapidly, and that causes quite a problem locally."
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