Big Box Ban - Thoughts?

[Bob Orts]

So, it looks like all the issues of union or not union is really subject to individual's feelings and understandings...
...Which brings us full circle back to the Big Box Ban.

From reading everything I gathered over the weekend, my view is the Big Box Ban is on the surface a concern over a single mega facility offering traditionally separated type markets that are being grouped together. A single massive facility takes a greater toll on community resources and delivers less overall positive economic impact versus the traditional multi-store approach.

But, under the surface, I'm seeing the requirements aimed exclusively at Super Wal-Mart and Super Target centers for the protection of traditional supermarkets. There's nothing that prevents Target from opening a 1,000,000 sq foot store that sells their normal merchandise and a full home improvement center and a full auto dealership, and a full appliance store, and a full airplane service center, just so long as they keep the amount of floor space that is devoted to food sales below a certain level.

So, this does not seem like any protectionism for mom & pops, or one store versus another, it seems to only protect the supermarkets.