lawrence yuppies talk talk, do not walk walk
My heart was filled with glee this morning.
Retail drain: Lawrence shoppers taking their dollars to Wyandotte County. Not Johnson County. Wyandotte County. To shop at “big box stores”, which is what snotty elitist Yuppies (which are who I call “typical Lawrence residents”) call “successful, major retailers”. Wholesale clubs for me, but not for thee.
02.28.2008 @ 22:50
I think you overstate the case a little bit, J.D. People aren’t going to Wyandotte County to shop at Wal-Mart or Costco, which are the types of stores we do have here. They’re going to Cabela’s and Nebraska Furniture Mart, which are stores on the kind of massive scale that only go into urban areas like KC, not in places like Lawrence. You might be right about the hypocrisy, but this ain’t the proof.
02.28.2008 @ 23:20
No - that would be the fact that I have been to Target and Wal-mart in the past two weeks and both times had to park two hundred yards from the building.
Speaking seriously now - there’s no reason Lawrence couldn’t have those types of places — and the resultant economic benefits — because it’s simply better than Topeka and KCK and “hipper” than Olathe or Overland Park (for those who care about that crap). No reason, of course, except for the pain that Lawrence provincials and the City Commission inflict on anyone who tries.