The “Water Cooler” is a feature on Claycord.com where we will ask you a question or provide a topic, and you will talk about it.
The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday at noon.
Today’s question:
QUESTION: Do you think Concord should try to get stores such as Target or Walmart? If so, where should they put them?
Talk about it….
WHY would any city want WOKE target ? ? ? ?
Consumers voted with their feet, boycotting target and stock price cratered..
As for walmart Martinez and Pittsburg are close enough.
Already stated why I won’t ever set foot in a target, won’t shop walmart because of their historically how they’ve treated employees.
Easy OG…easy. It’s just commerce bubba. If you want to spin out, consider their logo is a target, yet you absolutely cannot but targets there. That’s worth getting riled about.
Naw, I’m good . . . . haven’t had to rent a backhoe in years.
When management of a company goes woke because they want to be kool liberal or treat employees poorly . . . won’t set foot in their stores. I decide where to spend my dollars.
Nah. Pleasant Hill & Martinez can have them so there is tax leakage from Concord.
Concord has that humongous and marginal Sun Valley Mall. I bet the Veranda generates just as much sales tax at 1/4 the size.
NO
No! ..there are others close enough!
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No… Martinez in Pleasant Hill have them. That’s close enough. I like Walmart I just stopped going to Target. The prices are no longer competitive, plus they’re stalkers do not do a good job putting the correct prices on the merchandise . The finsl straw is thst the company philosophy is a bit too liberal activist for us.
Well if you want to run around the store to find an employee who can unlock the case where facial cleansers and moisturizers locked up and employee wages mean they qualify for MediCal and Section 8 then get a Walmart. If you want a store where customers are not treated like criminals and they pay a fair wage to the employees a Target
Not sure what store works but our Concord Community deserves the conveniences of having a store that carries the daily products and services one needs without having to drive to another city. I personally would prefer to spend my consumer dollars in my city and not give up sales tax to other outlying cities. Every tax dollar counts we’ve heard over the years, correct? Concord has lost many large businesses over the past years and it’s time to entice some back and provide the community options to shop within our own city.
Walmart tried to build a store in Concord and it got denied by the city. I’m kind of surprised that folks have forgotten, it wasn’t that long ago. We ended up getting a Lowes in the same area instead.
😁 People who work for a living go to Lowes…. might explain some of it.
Get a grip on crime first.
I never liked Target, and going gender-neutral with their restrooms sealed it for me.
When Walmart started locking up their merchandise, I stopped shopping there.
How about a WinCo instead? Good produce, meats, and fish, at good prices.
“Tuck-it” swimwear for boys and men? Target got my old charge card in pieces mailed to their “Gender Neutral Head”-quarters. So…. Walmart on ‘our’ side of Mtz/Pacheco and a super store in Antioch…. And SAM’s Club IS Walmart. Good enough for me.
I think Concord needs a second Costco. The one we have now is ridiculously busy, usually from opening to close 7 days a week. It’s hard to find decent parking, you can barely maneuver through the aisles, and the lines are a lot longer than other Costco’s in the area.
All in favor of another Costco, well run company with very little shrinkage.
Just waiting for the rumored stock split, wish I’d bought more.
That’s a very good idea – but where would you put it? Maybe the old Fry’s building? Maybe out by Lowe’s somewhere? I really like this idea.
Concord, under current management would probably work a bow-down, hands & knees “tax” deal like they did with Fry’s. Ten years Fry’s lived tax free in Concord, I’m not sure, but I think they even got an extension “incentive” to stay… but whoosh…15 years, or so ~~ where is Fry’s now that the tax incentives are kaput? Belly Up! What did Concord get out of that deal?
Eveey incarnation of the Concord City Council has made it clear for 35 years that they have absolutely no interest in allowing a Walmart store to operate within the City of Concord. Walmart has made three attempts at opening a store in Concord and each time the Concord City Council turned them down.
Ssd but true. The lot next to Lowe’s would have made a wonderful walmart, but that was back when our city council majority considered Walmart to be too low class for Concord. A regrettable decision, especially given the lost tax revenue we so desperately needed.
MIKE MCDERMOTT,
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The Concord City Council considered Walmart a net sales tax loser because of the number of other businesses that were estimated to close because they wouldn’t be able to compete with Walmart.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Yes, Target for sure up here where Kmart used to be. What a waste of a building.
Plus we need a place to shop up here
Walmart. Perfect spot would be where the old Kmart was on Clayton Rd. But Lucky’s has a choke hold on anyone who leases the building can’t have groceries.
Walmart, would be ok, but if the company expanded the Martinez location to full on grocery store like that in Antioch, I think that would be sufficient.
Not Target. There is one in PH and one in WC, how many do we need? I do not shop there, gave up on them completely when they began promoting dysfunction.
Interesting Fun fact….Overtime now…Safeway, Lucky’s and FoodMax are all under the same Corporate Conglomeration. That means all the grocery choses are under one umbrella from Ygnacio Valley to Port Chicago.
MUMZY15,
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Lucky Stores outside of California and Nevada and Safeway are subsidiaries of Albertsons, which is owned by New York based Cerberus Capital Management, while Lucky Stores located in California and Nevada and Food Maxx are subsidiaries of Save Mart which is owned by the Jim Pattinson Group out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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