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What else would you associate social status with other than corporate labels? I'm just badmouthing people who associate putting labels on corporate labeling of social status.

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My hood doesn't "pop", it has manual latches (along with manual windows and door locks). I guess my label = poor.

Get real. Walmart truck drivers are people. They make mistakes. They miss stop signs:

Indeed. Like your School Bus Eating Evil Walmart Bridge arguments, but you will keep beating that dead horse until you find a new rediculous argument point.

or it will just be another 8 bucks on my water bill....

It is up to the traffic engineer. If the traffic control plan recommended upgrading the bridge, they would have to do it. Rerouting 18 wheeler traffic is a half measure that will just send 18 wheelers into the bike lanes on Heights, while many will ignore the restriction and still end up on Yale. That alternative is only acceptable to Walmart, not the 5 community organizations that wrote the City demanding an upgrade to the bridge before the site is developed.

And it is "dying" not "dieing".

Trolls love bridges.

I drive over the bridge twice a day every day. I care about the bridge more than I care about Walmart. I don't blame Walmart for the City failing to enforce the load limitations on the bridge. I blame Walmart for putting a store that needs 7-9 18 wheelers a day in a place that does not have adequate access for 18 wheelers and for taking the benefit of 6 mil in tax payer dollars for improvements while ignoring the most important infrastructure upgrade needed. And it is not an issue of whether the City will or won't enforce it. It is an issue of whether the City should even need to enforce the limitation. The only sane solution is to upgrade the bridge to handle 18 wheeler traffic. Relying on cops to keep 18 wheelers off the bridge is no solution at all. All they can do is write a ticket AFTER the load limitation has been violated and AFTER the damage has been done. Walmart can build all the suburban sprawl, soul-sucking junk shops they want. But they damn well are not going to endanger me and my community and push off all the infrastructure upgrades on to my tax dollars. Any remotely responsible actor in the community would recognize the issue and be willing to shift the 6 mil from the 380 agreement to take care of the bridge. Thus, I do not need to do anything to make Walmart look evil. They handle that quite well for themselves.

or the trucks can just drive on Heights.

How do you know this is the "most important infrastructure upgrade needed". Are you just making things up again? I think a simple visible sign that states "No Loads over 40,000 lbs" would be the "sane" solution.

You know that 18 wheelers drive on this bridge already... yet you drive it twice a day... your already endangering yourself. You should, like the trucks will, take Heights, its safer. As Red previously stated.... next complaint.

Please check your email. I have just sent you an important message from a friend who is a Prince in Nigeria. He needs help cashing an international lottery ticket. If you give him $1,000 to pay for the handling, he will give you 10% of the ticket ($100,000!!!).

If you buy into the idea that HPD will enforce the bridge load limitations (they didn't even care about it until the community made a stink) and Walmart will abide by any unenforceable agreement with the city (traffic control plans are just engineering analysis), then you need to get your $1,000 off to Nigeria asap before someone else does.

And traffic engineers are not structural engineers. There are differing opinions on the effect of idling traffic on a bridge. But, it is a new stress on a very old and deteriorating bridge. The only responsible thing to do is to fix the bridge. Walmart is not worth the risk.

You realize that in this comment you are claiming the city won't do anything about enforcing the bridge load limitations (which you somehow blame Walmart), while trying to demand that the city force the developer to pay for bridge renovations. Let me make my point more clear... you are saying

"but.... the city won't enforce this" while saying "the city should enforce this..."

Your issues clearly should be with the city. Why not focus your efforts on getting the community behind having HPD enforce the bridge load limitations? I'm sure BOTH sides of the issue can support that. Oh yeah, you don't actually care about the bridge, your just looking for something to make walmart look evil. Go back to your RUDH friends and come up with another failed complaint.

or the trucks can just drive down heights, $9m saved!

BMW get away vehicles.

The week before Easter, I purchased the bacon anticipating family guests that weekend. They are STILL talking about the bacon. It was SO good.

You think that something like bacon can't be improved upon but it can.

interesting... improving bacon, which can be used to improve nearly any other food (bacon wrapped steak/shrimp/asparagus/cupcake etc.)

maybe you and your pals should go stand on the bridge with a sign... I've seen several 18wheelers drive on this bridge. Oh yeah, you only care about walmart trucks causing an incident.

i liked king biscuit, but this comes as no suprise really. I always felt like the space was under utilized and could be something much more than it was. Hopefully they keep it obnoxiously colorful.

Fortune ranks companies on revenues, not profits. WalMart was almost $5 billion behind ExxonMobil in profits for 2010, even though WalMart's revenues were $120 billion higher.

Your right, they are only 3rd in profit. Point still stands though.

I read somewhere that the next section will be started in 2012, but I can't seem to find the link. I wish they'd hurry up and finish the east/west heritage corridor connection, that will make downtown travel much easier.

anyone know when they plan on extending this? This to be a waste if no plan to extend the trail, its not even a half a mile as is. Would be nice if it continued south and went along the bayou to merge with the Heritage Corridor trail.

Electrolytes... what your plants crave!

I got more information. It is a nation-wide campaign. Walmart is sending out gift cards to people living near new or remodeled stores. The idea is to get people to go to THAT STORE so they will shop at THAT STORE. People living near future Walmarts do not get cards. Thus, Walmart's own marketing shows that they are trying to use their largesse to knock out the competition instead of prices. (Walmart has stopped releasing same store sales data on a monthly basis, a sign that their ability to bring in consumers as the price winner has faded badly: http://finance.yahoo...s=7&asset) If you think Walmart is sitting around trying to get people in the Heights to go over to Silber in order to win them over until the Heights location opens, you are thinking way too hard. What is obvious is that Walmart is running out of options to find renewed profit growth. Largesse is how they got where they are. And it looks like they are going to bank on largesse in urban areas to get them out of their current rut.

I've got more information as well. If you are outside of the market zone (like the heights) walmart doesn't give two craps about which store you go to. They just want you in a Walmart. The more time you spend inside a Walmart the better is their mantra. You are the one thinking to hard, it is very simple. "Come to walmart, the first $5 is on us". Running out of options to fine renewed profit growth would be a bad thing.. if your company wasn't already the most profitable in the country. (#1 in 2010 according to Fortune)

They would not send a $5 gift card out unless they were very serious about getting the recipient to become a shopper at the new Silber store. Add that to the fact that many getting the gift cards live way closer to the Heights location, and Walmart's business strategy is pretty clear.

The strategy is clear (yet you still missed it). Walmart is trying to get loyal customers. They want to establish a relationship with customers inside of their future market zone, so when the Yale location opens they will already have loyal customers. The business strategy is to get people in their store.

My wife and I plan to meet friends at Revival on bicycles, pick up Noms and head to a local park for a picnic. I have a feeling this will be a common thing for many people. Maybe they could put togther some sort of picnic package with small portions of jams and etc. with their crackel bread and etc.

I went to this bakery in D.C. last time I was there called Le Pain, and they served picnic style baskets with a mix of fresh breads/jams/dips that were awesome. I wish I could find something like that somewhere in this city.

moo, i like to tinker with stuff so buying a house gave me a huge thing to tinker with. I personally think this whole argument silly, worrying about being bound to your house and unable to move quickly if needed. Don't buy a house you can't afford. If you can't afford to pay rent for a place to live and your mortgage, chances are you are stretching yourself a bit too thin.

For my personal rent vs buy:

Rent for a good condition 2/2 bungalow with 2 car garage would be very close to the same as my mortgage/insurance/taxes and that is with a 15yr loan.

I didn't buy my home as an investment (of course i still tried to buy something that should gain value) but more of a piggy bank to hold part of my rent I would have been spending.

I'm sure my bimonthly bacon purchase is insignificant in the scheme of things... but the fact that I have a plan to go by there at least twice a month just for thick cut awesome swine strips is a pretty good sign I'd think.

Anyone try the lamb? looked freaking amazing.

Glad everyone has liked it but after the novelty wears off, it will not have the traffic to survive long-term.

Yeah it is too niche of a market, just like you said for Jus' Mac...

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I already have a whataburger within stumbing distance from my house...

Uh... no.

Why anyone would pay $27 for chicken strips is beyond me.

good thing they aren't nearly that expensive hater!

If you've ever been to a raising canes maybe you'd notice they are almost always super clean, very friendly, and their chicken isn't rediculously greasy like other places. They also tend to have dine in open late, which would be great for a location so close to Washington. Stumbling in to Raisin' Caines around 2:15 am after a night drinking at the bar was a great college pasttime.

7-8 bucks for a combo meal vs. what 6 bucks anywhere else? If you care that much about 1-2 bucks you really wouldn't be going to any "chef driven" restaurants...

We need a Raising Cane's

I am not wrong more often than not. I just take a point of view that is contrary to the prevailing pro-developer/anti-preservation view that is prevalent on this message board. Thus, plenty of people say things that are completely wrong (HAHC being able to control political content of yard signs--actual post in Historic Ordinance thread) and get a pass. But, I make a reasonable argument/observation (Bungalows in good condition at a certain price point sell quickly in the Heights) based on my personal experience of being in the market for over two years (and friends being in the market for another year beyond that), and I get a pile of responses because I do not share the anti-preservation view. Just because my arguments and observations start a debate doesn't mean that they are invalid. I do not have to post links to every sale of a bungalow in the Heights just because someone knows of an overpriced bungalow with a horrible rennovation that won't move. And I do not have to see a link to the bungalow that won't move and won't call that person a liar for not posting one because it is just an argument on a message board. Many who are pro-preservation and/or anti-Walmart have been bullied off this message board by people who pick apart their posts and call them all kinds of names. Debate is what makes message boards interesting. I am all for that. But discounting opposing viewpoints as being invalid because they do not share the prevailing bias is lame.

Yet you bring up the yard sign issue, which was posted back in June, before the revisions to the Historic Ordinance, and were admittingly made in jest to show the ordinance's flaws. Lame indeed.

You are wrong more often than not, as has been repeatedly shown. When proven/shown wrong you simply stop that argument and move on to another one, rinse/repeat. You get a pile of responses because of your blatant disregard for your neighbors, as shown by your manic threatening rant in your "we won you lost" post. You aren't here for debate, you are here to troll.