May he and his Mammon acolytes find again the truer path?
Such generic thinking during the first cup of morning coffee has its muse. Strib reports:
Walmart closing Sam's Club locations in St. Louis Park and Moorhead, about 60 others -- The two Minnesota stores are closed Thursday but will reopen Friday and remain for a few weeks until permanently closing. Story by John Ewoldt, Star Tribune, January 11, 2018 — 4:23pm
Sam's Club was not among the list retailers expected to announce store closures after the holidays, but on Thursday Walmart announced it is closing or converting 63 units in its warehouse chain.
Locations in St. Louis Park and Moorhead, Minn. will close. Both stores were deleted from the Sam's Club website by Thursday afternoon. Stores in Madison and West Allis, Wis., are also closing.
Fifty of the stores are expected to close, with 10 or more conversions to distribution centers.
The news came on the same day that Walmart announced it will boost its starting salary for U.S. workers to $11 an hour, expand the parental leave benefit, and hand out one-time cash bonuses of up to $1,000. Walmart credited the recently passed tax bill for those moves.
"Tax reform gives us the opportunity to be more competitive globally and to accelerate plans for the U.S.," Walmart chief executive Doug McMillon said in a statement.
Reports surfaced Thursday morning that Sam's employees were not informed in advance and found the doors locked when they reported to work.
[...] Sam's Club announced the news on Twitter.
Read more of it at Strib for the full report.
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First, lobbying pays damned well. That's Timmy's keystone insight.
Second, should he give up the big paycheck, as unlikely as that might be, for a Senate one, he would need to hone his message and we in Anoka County know exactly what might help:
Turning that vacant Sam's Club in St. Louis Park into an evangelicals' mega-church campus, with lots of parking. Redo the facade, and bingo, mega preaching opportunity for silver-tongued messengers be they lobbyists or prosperity Gospel mongers or some such - either of which might fit Timmy P. If the pay's largely equivalent, what's the real difference, it's working the gullible, either way.
That said, let's examine recent City of Anoka history. Reflecting to the Highway 10 access road strip, in Anoka between the two Highway 10 traffic lights, a vacant closed Kmart, and a block away fast food choice, Culvers or a Big Mac.
The insightful, perhaps epiphany inspired entrepreneur came, and saw, and converted. New facade, new name, come worship. Not caring to remember the official, officious name given the site, family here view it as the First Evangelical Church of the Blue Light Special, but that is known to not be the official title the entrepreneur attached. Whatever it is called, avoid Culvers or McDonald on Sundays right after church lets out; or be inundated with fresh-faced families with multiple tykes in tow, looking as if having just received blessed spirituality; a full day's worth perhaps even lasting to Monday morning.
So, Timmy P. has The Roadmap for that now-to-be-vacant Sam's Club in St. Louis Park, MN. All he needs is a push, a slight one, since it is all downhill from lobbying to preaching if the cash flow's same or better.