I Heart....Walmart?

I'm not exactly sure what to make of this. Honest effort or good press?

If nothing else, there are a lot of earth tones in the artists rendering. It must be green friendly!

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..they could cure cancer....they are still a horrible company in my mind.

Teotihuacan

If those fuckers build a store near the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon, they should be taken out and shot.

Sure, Mexicans need jobs, but Wal-Mart certainly isn't going to help them much.

Teotihuacan is sacred ground. You have to take the bus from the Federal District for miles through shanty towns just to get there.

Nothing shoud be built there. Quetzalcoatl wouldn't want it any other way.

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You have got to be kidding me...

Walmart can fuck off and die for all I care.

Walmart and Starbucks. and Microsoft. and Tony Danza.

Teotihuacan, while anthropologically important, is not sacred ground. It is a dead [sic] city, not unlike Pompeii, with a couple of temples. And, while it should be preserved as live [sic] demonstration of that from whence we have arisen, to propose the imposition of a several (tens? hundreds of?) kilometres buffer of non-development around it is ludicrous. Such would give much, too much, importance to a thoroughly mundane artifice.

Have you been there? It is anything but mundane.





They're ancient pyramids, for crying out loud!

National parks in the United States are vast land areas, so why can't Teotihuacan be the same?

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green building is the future.

From the same article:

The store will be one big eyesore there. It doesn't belong there. Period.

hey now, lets leave Tony Danza outta this.

I think you are all missing the bigger picture here:

No more grey and blue buildings!

and anyway, burritos are the future, dude.

I guess Wal-Mart's just answered the perennial question "Is nothing sacred?".

Walmart and Sam's Club are the spawns of Satan. Not in a rockin' death metal sort of way, either. On a list of evil bastard corporations, this bunch ranks number one.

Whoa there, Tony? What'd he do?

Fucking Tony Danza!

Not to mention this will do nothing about the thousands of other stores still out there which will be way too expensive to retroactively fit with this new technology. This is just a gimmick...the equivalent of throwing a cup of water onto a forest fire and then releasing a press kit praising one's own heroics and contributions to eradicating said fire. One, ten, even a hundred more of these stores won't make a lick of difference because at the end of the day, they're still Wallmarts, still filled with merchandise and still using more and more and more resources while giving little to nothing back.

One can say that every little bit helps, but in the end, they're still contributing more to the problem by far than they are to the solution.

If they've already built on an Indian Burial Mound, then building near Teotihuacan is well within their abilities insofar asshole building practices go.

It is half a mile from the park (I assume the outer boundry) at a location with other stores.Now that the store is almost completed is a little late to stop it.

They built on an indian burial mound?, thats just not right. And neither is the building near Teotihuacan.

Damn evil Walmart

Cure cancer? Walmart is a fucking cancer.

It is located a bit over half a mile away from the sight...