Well, Walmart as a topic hasn't gone away, in fact, it's doubled.
First, a little conjecture on the Calavaras Crater location: Walmart has four store formats -- the Supercenter; the standard Walmart department store (which averages 108,000 square feet, according to ABC News); the Walmart Neighborhood Market grocery store; and a Walmart Express, a smaller department store with some pharmacy and groceries. Our guess is that the Calavaras Crater is a target for either another Neighborhood Market or an Express, which averages 12,000-15,000 square feet, and can easily fit into the space. (ABC News has something on the Express here). It's far too small and doesn't have sufficient parking for a regular Walmart store, and most department store chains don't like having two stories (the first two-story Target was the one on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena).
But: another Walmart store of any type? Good or bad? Or do you think it's a dodge, a divide-and-conquer strategem, as some have claimed? Give us your opinion in the comments!
