Originally Posted by wahoonc

...Typically WM will ask for and get tax incentives to move to a town, when they expire, if the town says they don't want to reissue them quite often WM will pack up and build a new store a few miles down the road, outside the city limits. Currently WM has over 200 empty stores sitting around the country. Most of which were subsidized by tax payers and are now not generating any taxes for the communities they are blighting.