Where my parents live there used to be a giant Walmart in a huge strip mall/shopping center. When I was in high school, this Walmart bought a bunch of land, literally two streets over and 4 blocks up to build a brand new SuperWalmart. The residents in the area repeatedly voted against allowing the Walmart to develop that land and eventually Walmart won anyway once they bribed enough local politicians to override voters. They shut down the old one and opened the new one. That old shopping mall area has two businesses left in it that are still open because no one has any reason to go to that place anymore as more and more places went out of business or moved due to the lower volume now that the Walmart moved to a different location. Those two businesses are the only Chili’s in town and tobacco store.
For the better part of 20 years, that Walmart has REFUSED to sell the old building because it doesn’t want another store to move in and take its business. Not only that but Walmart makes a profit from this building because it charges the city to use its parking lot to store massive snow piles from the snow plows and stuff. The completely empty building has electricity running 24/7 and heat because the old fire sprinkler system might freeze and cause water damage that Walmart would then have to pay to fix.
My parents are living somewhere where it is -18 degrees outside and there are rolling black outs every 3 hours because the power grid can’t support all the energy being used for heat.
But guess what? That old closed down Walmart that no one has stepped foot into for nearly 20 years? Is lit up like a goddamn Christmas tree and hasn’t lost power once because it’s considered an essential business.
We are not a developed country.
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