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POTF Weekly volume 1 issue 2
By: FalcolnSkymere Date: July 14, 2017, 9:16 am
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This weeks top stories:
What happened when Walmart left
When Walmart left town, it didn’t linger over the goodbyes. It
slashed the prices on all its products, stripped the shelves
bare, and vanished, leaving behind only the ghostly shadow of
its famous brand name and gold star logoon the front wall of a
deserted shell.
The departure was so quick that telltale signs remain of the
getaway, like smoldering ashes in the fireplaces of an evacuated
town. Notices still taped to the glass entranceway record with
tombstone-like precision the exact moment that the supercenter
was shuttered: “Store closed at 7pm, Thursday 28 January 2016.”
Ten years. That’s all the time it took for the store to rise up
in a clearing of the lush forest of West Virginia’s coal country
and then disappear again, as though it had never been there.
But for the people of McDowell County – proud country folk
laboring under the burdens of high unemployment, low income and
endemic ill health – even such a fleeting visit to this rural
backwater by the world’s largest retailer had a profound impact.
Both in the arrival, and in the hasty leaving.
Wanda Church was present for both of these book-ends of the
Walmart story – one of a few workers who helped set up the store
in October 2005 and then gut it 10 years, three months and two
days later. She remembers the feeling of excitement and
expectation as they stocked the supercenter for the very first
time, turning it in just 20 days from an empty building into a
teeming cathedral of retail capitalism.
“It was amazing what we were able to do, stocking the shelves
from nothing to full in such a short time,” she said, talking as
she waited for her car to be repaired at a gas station over the
road from the disused store. As if to underscore her enduring
attachment to the corporation, she was wearing one of her old
Walmart T-shirts.
She was there at the supercenter too on that fateful day last
year when she and her fellow Walmart workers walked out of the
store for the last time. “We were all crying. It was a sad day
for a lot of people. It was a sad day for me – I spent more of
those 10 years at Walmart than I did at my own home.”
Much has been written about what happens when the corporate
giant opens up in an area, with numerousstudiesrecording how it
sucks the energy out of a locality, overpowering the competition
through sheer scale and forcing the closure of mom-and-pop
stores for up to 20 miles around. A more pressing, and much
less-well-understood, question is what are the consequences when
Walmart screeches into reverse: when it ups and quits, leaving
behind a trail of lost jobs and broken promises.
Teen charged in school shooting moved to mental hospital
URBANA, Ohio — A teen charged as an adult in an Ohio school
shooting that wounded two students has been moved from a
detention center to a mental health hospital.
Court records show 17-year-old Ely Serna was moved this month
because authorities said he posed a "substantial risk of
physical harm to himself or others." Serna has pleaded not
guilty by reason of insanity to an attempted murder charge and
other offenses in the January shooting at West Liberty-Salem
High School.
Authorities allege Serna fired a shotgun at a classmate in a
school bathroom, critically wounding him, and at classrooms.
Another student was slightly injured at the school in West
Liberty, about 55 miles (89 kilometers) northwest of Columbus.
No motive has been disclosed.
Serna's attorney didn't immediately return a call seeking
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