Re:Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes peo...
by kortilla on Saturday December 29, 2018 @06:35AM
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>Ask the rural United States how building a bunch of highways through their towns to the local Walmart has gone for them.
Might be hard to get an answer given that most places didn’t build highways to Walmarts.
Either way, consumers tend to shop at their local Walmart regardless of the road to it. Consumers seem to consistently pick Walmart over overpriced local businesses nearly everywhere except for wealthy, dense cities where people can afford to avoid the unpleasantness of shopping the giant things with lower class people.
Might be hard to get an answer given that most places didn’t build highways to Walmarts.
Either way, consumers tend to shop at their local Walmart regardless of the road to it. Consumers seem to consistently pick Walmart over overpriced local businesses nearly everywhere except for wealthy, dense cities where people can afford to avoid the unpleasantness of shopping the giant things with lower class people.