Steve Jobs said the Apple spaceship will have tons of apricot trees? Will they allow outside people to come visit?
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If Apple is willing to bring back these beauties, why not Facebook and Google?
But that is a fundamental transformation from a wholesale agriculture based economy to beyond industrial based economies of today. I am just suggesting that SFās approach has worked for the most part (banned all big chain stores) and it has kept SF from turning into any other town or suburb with the same stores. No doubt, it is hard for small stores to make it but a lot do.
Banning big box stores just penalizes the working poor to make check book liberals feel goodā¦They are banned in South Lake Tahoeā¦So everyone shops at Wallmart, Costco, Home Depot, Best Buy in Carson City, Nvā¦driving revenue and tax dollars out of State. .stupid political policyā¦
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Come on @Elt1, your town is a beautiful vaction/tourist destination. People go there to get away from it and take the great outdoors in and have a little fun in the casinos. Personally, I donāt want to see mainly big box stores on the main drag of South Lake Tahoe when I am there. Would you really want to see South Lake Tahoe turn into a Sacramento?
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Consumers will go where things are cheapest. Thatās why Walmat has over $400B/yr in revenue. Everyone hates the place. People complain about it. People complain about the worker pay. However, they wonāt say no to the prices. Even my friend who works construction and is completely pro Bernie and unions shops there.
I donāt think SF is against big box retail. Itās just against Walmart as a political statement. SF has Costco, plenty of supermarkets like Safeway, and Best Buy, Staple etc.
Besides Walmart also has a much smaller version neighborhood store like the city Target.
Well, SF policy says otherwise with respect to chain stores (which was what I was actually more focusing on. The Gaps, Banana Republics, Forever 21s of the worldā¦
Hmmā¦ why do I see so many big box retails and chain stores in SF? Every brand, except Walmart.
Just the other day a relative in SF asked where is the closest Walmart. Itās in Mountain View on this side of the Bay.
It would appear that the application of said policy is not being applied consistently. I would agree with you, donāt you see a proliferation of Walgreens and CVSs for example everywhere now? Like everything else, this is the ruleā¦buuuut here is an exception.
Big box store hatred is misplaced arbitrary and stupid. ā¦South Lake Tahoe has 2 Raleys, 2 Safeways and a new coming Smart and Finalā¦Costco would kick their ass and wouldnt be any biggerā¦The Raleys at the Y is the biggest grocery store anywhereā¦Sells more food than any other Raleys at outregeous pricesā¦My wife refuses to shop thereā¦In Kona grocers used to gouge their customers. .Then Wallmart and Costco cameā¦food prices became reasonable and gas became cheaper than even Caā¦
NYT dated Aug 2, 2016. China, Not Silicon Valley, Is Cutting Edge in Mobile Tech
Between fees for its services and money it makes through online games, WeChat manages to generate $7 in revenue per user each year, according to Nomura. The app has roughly 700 million users, more than the total number of smartphone users in China, in part because some users are outside the country and in part because people have multiple accounts.
Much of that comes not from ads, as it might in the United States, but from spending on games, services and goods sold on the app.
I have to disagree with you there Manch.
A little Guitar shop went under might seem negligible, but then one by one the other small businesses will be all gone because of exorbitant RE prices (bike shop and other local small business).
And this is not only hurting the local business. Recall the other threads regarding teachers, etc?
Iām amazed that BestBuy and Fryās are still around but I donāt expect they can hang on for 10 more years. (Either they fold completely like Sports authority or close all shops in the Bay Area like Microcenter)
Maybe later weāll only find eateries, grocery stores, hardware stores and pharmacy. Everything else youāll have to get online.
This just happened in HK for the past 8 years. All the local shops are wiped out, most of them closed, or moved to lesser district + upstairs.
All you see are jewelry stores, pharmacy and restaurants.
Yeah having a variety of shops does make the town more fun. We better get some pro growth policy in place then.
More of the sameā¦
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/09/silicon-valley-real-estate-shows-almost-no-slowdown-in-tech.html
So twitter is circling the drain? I love Twitter the service but hate the company.
There are some huge office buildings under construction in Santa Clara just off 101 and great America. But Santa Clara and San Jose are mostly for hardware and networking companies. Not the sexy hot startups.
I am most curious about the tri valley market. People who work in Pleasanton can commute from Stockton in an hour or so. That would help a lot softening the housing affordability problem.
Go Stockton goā¦
What about Lodi?
I donāt shop at Wal Mart - not out of principle or anything but I honestly cannot stand to shop there with the people and the way the store feels is gross