[StBernard] Target, Wal-Mart Check Out St. Bernard

[Westley Annis]

But you know...those two companies need to look at the adjacent areas too.
A Wal-Mart or Target would probably also draw folks from New Orleans East
and at least the lower, if not upper, 9th wards.  Those additional folks may
bring the target number close to the 45K.

Jim





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	Target, Wal-Mart Check Out St. Bernard
	
	POSTED: 1:04 pm CDT October 17, 2007
	UPDATED: 5:34 pm CDT October 17, 2007
	
	
	CHALMETTE, La. -- Target and Wal-Mart are looking at St. Bernard
Parish to
	decide if they'll open stores there.
	
	A corporate team from Target will tour the hard-hit parish next week
and
	meet with parish leaders.
	
	Wal-Mart executives did the same last week.
	
	"They're coming in about a year, supposedly, but we've heard that
before,"
	Parish President Junior Rodriguez said.
	
	The two companies are trying to decide whether or not St. Bernard is
a
	viable market based on population.
	
	"We need at least 45,000 people. We only have 30,000 people,"
Rodriguez
	said.
	
	But resident Richard Totorico said both stores are missing out on a
big
	opportunity.
	
	"Thirty-thousand people need everything to rebuild. They will buy
double
	what people in other areas would buy," he said.
	
	Beside not having a big retailer in town, people in the parish say
they're
	not happy about seeing their tax dollars go to other areas when they
go out
	of the parish to shop.