“if I wanted the convenience of a walmart in my backyard I would have chosen to live in Chesterfield County”

I would be curious to know how far the proposed site of WalMart is from your backyard. I will shortly be moving to Powhatan from NY and while one of the features of the county that attracted me was it’s rural feel, there is no doubt that there will be changes to the area in the coming years. That’s why a comprehensive plan for the county is being supposedly being worked on. Hopefully a plan is chosen that allows for commercial and residential development that preserves the rural feel, but also allows for the needed development and the increased tax base that such development will provide - but the legislators must now move ahead with the plans for the county - sooner rather than later. Yes to WalMart.

Why is that Joe Walton is the only Board of Supervisor answering to his constituents?

I am commenting on behalf of my mother who lives in Powhatan.  We all think Walmart would be a tremendous benefit to Powhatan.  The only grocery stores you all have is two Food Lions, which I don’t see how they could ever be voted best grocery store.  In the last month my mother has had to go back to the store twice to return food that she bought from Food Lion.  She bought bad milk, that was not supposed to be expired, it was spoiled.  Then just this morning she had to run in Food Lion, and the chicken she bought, also not past the expiration date was rotten.  So yes Powhatan definately needs a place to buy Groceries.  If I lived in Powhatan, which I would like to I would have to buy my groceries before I got home do to the fact that your only grocery store does not cary weight watcher products, and only one carries all the sugar free/no sugar added baking products.  Walmart does cary most of them.

I guess if we are not originally from Powhatan, we do not get a vote.  Sorry votes do not go on time in county.  That is a crazy opinion, I pay taxes here as well.   

I would like to see a neutral person from Powhatan Today come out to 4th Friday’s and do a poll.  I bet the results would be different, if they collected the data correctly.  I still think there is many possible problems in an online poll. 

Let’s go Wal-Mart!!!!

Michael Paul Williams said it best in his column last Saturday: “It doesn’t profit Powhatan to gain a Walmart if the county loses its soul.”  We do not need a Walmart or any other huge box retailer in this county.

“I am assuming everyone posting comments on this article FOR the walmart did now grow up in Powhatan…”

You’re assuming incorrectly.

“Even if any or all of those were one party voting multiple times intentionally, it would not change the percentages by much in either direction.”

The duplicate ‘no’ votes number 43 by my calculations using your numbers.  The duplicate ‘yes’ votes number 14.  Both of those numbers are statistically significant in my opinion.  In fact, 43 is over 12% of your total votes.  And 14 is nearly 4% of your total votes.

I’m not saying these aren’t votes from shared computers, as you suggest, however don’t assume that if they were the same person voting multiple times it wouldn’t affect the results that much.

I am assuming everyone posting comments on this article FOR the walmart did now grow up in Powhatan…  Move to the walmart, don’t bring it here…

Well that is good information Brian French, just alot different than the people I have spoke to.  I guess it your pro-Wal-Mart, you talk to Wal-Mart supports and if your against Wal-Mart, it would be the other way around.

Good point.  At least you defend your self!!

To the people saying that those of us who want to keep Walmart out are closet Walmart shoppers, think again. I haven’t set foot in one for at least 10 years and never will. I oppose them for many reasons - what they do to small businesses, their business ethics, and how they treat their employees. They’re predators, plain and simple.

Please don’t presume to know how we feel. Oh, and if you read the numerous university studies done on Walmart’s impact to rural localities, you’ll find that within 10 years, about 50% of small businesses close after Walmart comes in. While they often purchase millions of units of an item (take shampoo for example), places like our pharmacy only order a few dozen. So who gets the price break? Walmart, of course.