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Paris Super Wal-Mart Update
(8)Caption on an above-the-fold photograph in the July 26 edition of the local paper, The Bourbon County Citizen:
Paris City employees begin cleaning up brush that will be the home of the Paris Dog Park in the future.
I leave you to apply your own punch line to that statement.
The Citizen assures us that our wonderful new Wal-Mart Supercenter will be operational by January 2007. Construction certainly seems to be moving rapidly, which is more than I can say for commuter traffic. That is being stopped by a flagger so that big earth movers can take dirt from one side of the by-pass and dump it on the other. All the traffic islands are torn up so the road can be reworked to accommodate the shopping center entrance. Who knew traffic islands went down two or three feet.
I go to work through town now.
We were promised a bigger better box, with a colonial façade to blend in with the rest of our pseudo-colonial architecture in that area (Bo Co High School being the prime example), but all I see at this point is a big box covered with brick veneer. I’ll admit that I’m a hostile witness.
Companion stores leasing in so far include a discount gas station, a Dairy Queen, and a Starbucks.
Yessirree Bob. Pretty soon Paris, Kentucky will have a Super Wal-Mart, a Starbuck’s, and some nice controlled green space with clean brush for walking our dogs. We’ll look like every other town in America and we’ll be happy. Don’t pay any attention to the empty storefronts downtown. And the jobs! Now our children can aspire to a career as a barrista without leaving home.
For further rants about the biggest box of all, I refer you to Have Coffee Will Write here and here.
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8 Responses to “Paris Super Wal-Mart Update”
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Rosalie O'Leary July 29th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
In these parts, we call them Wal Mart Stupid Centers. Oops! Better not say that too loud. We’re only 40 miles from their cororate headquarters, aka “ground zero.”
Rosalie O’Leary
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sherry July 30th, 2006 at 6:15 am
Hey Rosalie! Didn’t know you lived so close to the center of the world
. I would say that soon Wal-Mart will rule the world, but in actual fact, that will be Bill Gates, because he seems to want to use his obscene amounts of money to change things. Anyway, I read yesterday that Wally World didn’t make it into Germany, so maybe there will be limits to their expansion. -
The wiork that they are doing to the new coming walmart is starting to come arie… The new lane that they are putting in is making it even harder to get to school. It was bad enough waiting in long lines in traffic but no it’s only one lane and the traffic is moving extremely slow….
And on the topic of the new franchises coming in i personall y love starbucks but i don’t want all of this stuuf in this small ass town it’s ment for home towny stuff not the big sh*t…
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sherry August 12th, 2006 at 7:20 am
There’s an incompetent rudeness to this construction that annoys me, Stephanie. They stop commuter traffic repeatedly to let their heavy earth movers cross the by-pass. I’ve sat idling my expensive gasoline through three stops during the heaviest rush times. And in this lane reconstruction, they put up no warning signs, nothing to suggest that you’re coming up on a major lane closure. Just bang! Here you are in a major bottle neck. During all the years of major rebuilding of Paris Pike, I experienced nothing like this.
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i think that the new super-center wal-mart is going to be the best for paris because then we would not have to go all the way to lexington or georgtown or anywere else and the wal-mart well be the biggest one yet and i think that every one will be happy about it and that some of these stores that will be to high they need to go out of business and that people that need to go shopping for clothes or food or school stuff or get gas and wont coffee or anything else its all right there to were to can just walk and dont have to worrie about going anywere else that well just take yuor gas so they did a good job on the super-center wal-mart and that everyone is glade that this happend now we have something to look for in a store and i’ll be happy to be working there because i’ll be geting me a job so thinks for giving us something that we really need.
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sherry August 18th, 2006 at 8:55 am
Good luck to you, Kayla, and thanks for commenting here.
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kelsey July 22nd, 2007 at 7:55 am
ok dont you have anything better to do surely your life isnt that miserable that you just sit around and complain about everything the store did our town some good theres NOTHING downtown that you can get at wal-mart and you know you’ve probably been there a good 50 times if not more shopping yourself!
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