Why so few Wal-mart/Target in LA? (Rosemead, Altadena: buying, income)

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Originally Posted by genjy

Walmarts are popular with shoppers whereever they are opened. If there were a Walmart in Santa Monica or Hollywood, you better believe it would be just as busy as the Walmart in Temecula.

They're not as popular with middle and upper class shoppers.

[Taiko]

Originally Posted by UKWildcat1981

They have a Target in Hollywood section of LA and a Wal Mart on Crenshaw Blvd.. lol

And there are three Targets ten minutes away from the Crenshw Mall Walmart in the old Broadway department store with 10 AM opening time traffic conditions. In the old FedCo location, in the competing Fox Hills/Culver City Mall and a third in between those two locations in Culver city

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Originally Posted by valsteele

They're not as popular with middle and upper class shoppers.

A lot of people think that, but it isn't actually true: Our daughter in Florida lives in a very upscale area and there are 2 Walmarts within about 5 miles of her house, the same was true when our older daughter lived in a high end suburb of Dallas. In that case it did take a while for the residence to adjust to Walmart coming to town, but when they did the store was packed most of the time. The first Targot I ever saw was in a very nice strip shopping center in the East San Gabriel Valley and not in one of the older, run down part of the valley either. If you are talking the top 1% of our country you are right, but they are very popular among middle income families.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by Taiko

And there are three Targets ten minutes away from the Crenshw Mall Walmart in the old Broadway department store with 10 AM opening time traffic conditions. In the old FedCo location, in the competing Fox Hills/Culver City Mall and a third in between those two locations in Culver city

OMG, FedCo. How I rembember them back in the 50s and 6os. They were the first store of their type I think and a life time membership was a whole $2.00 but you had to work for a public company like the government or a non profit hospital. It covered almost eveyone I think.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by Taiko

And there are three Targets ten minutes away from the Crenshw Mall Walmart in the old Broadway department store with 10 AM opening time traffic conditions. In the old FedCo location, in the competing Fox Hills/Culver City Mall and a third in between those two locations in Culver city

There are also Targets in the old Bullocks Wilshire space in Westwood and in the Beverly Connection mall on La Cienega.

WalMart has a rep of being a ghetto business (whether deserved or not is another story) and so is considered undesirable in a lot of areas.

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States Where Wal-Mart And Whole Foods Are Dominant - Business Insider

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The Walmart in Porter Ranch where there are million dollar homes is very popular. And all the nearby neighborhoods have $750,000 homes.
Democrats hate Walmart because Walmart won't allow unions and unions contribute to get Democrats elected.

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Originally Posted by nmnita

A lot of people think that, but it isn't actually true: Our daughter in Florida lives in a very upscale area and there are 2 Walmarts within about 5 miles of her house, the same was true when our older daughter lived in a high end suburb of Dallas. In that case it did take a while for the residence to adjust to Walmart coming to town, but when they did the store was packed most of the time. The first Targot I ever saw was in a very nice strip shopping center in the East San Gabriel Valley and not in one of the older, run down part of the valley either. If you are talking the top 1% of our country you are right, but they are very popular among middle income families.

Fair or not, Walmart has a reputation of appealing primarily to people who can't afford to shop anywhere else, and people who regardless of income don't care much about how clothes look or whether a product is of good quality. Target, on the other hand, tends to have a reputation of being affordable, but more stylish. It attracts many more middle and upper income shoppers. It's a little more expensive than Walmart. Whether or not the quality is any higher, or whether they treat their employees better, I doubt it. There are Targets that I know of in West Hollywood and Glendale. One is under construction in East Hollywood, but construction was stopped because they didn't pay off a lawyer (Robert Silverstein) who extorts developers with frivolous legal delays if they don't pay him off. The only Walmart I know of in Central LA is in Chinatown. Their are tons of desperately poor people in LA, so I would imagine any new Walmarts would be busy.

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Originally Posted by V8 Vega

The Walmart in Porter Ranch where there are million dollar homes is very popular. And all the nearby neighborhoods have $750,000 homes.
Democrats hate Walmart because Walmart won't allow unions and unions contribute to get Democrats elected.

Not because of their crappy pay and treatment of workers? But because democrats. Good game.

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The two-story Walmart in Panorama City looked very busy the one time I went there, significantly busier than any Target usually is.