{"id":701,"date":"2007-07-20T18:54:39","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T01:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=701"},"modified":"2007-07-20T18:54:46","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T01:54:46","slug":"wal-mart-is-coming-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart Is Coming To Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/walmart-logo2.gif\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/walmart-logo2.gif','popup','width=200,height=55,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/walmart-logo2-tm.jpg\" height=\"55\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Walmart Logo2\" \/><\/a><strong>Wal-Mart<\/strong> has just purchased a 17-arce site at the corner of College Blvd and El Camino Real where it hopes to build &#8220;its most upscale store in the nation,&#8221; (which isn&#8217;t saying much) according to story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/07\/20\/news\/coastal\/carlsbad\/20_33_937_20_07.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It will be an absolute paradigm shift,&#8221; said Wal-Mart spokesman Aaron Rios in an interview Thursday evening. . . Wal-Mart, which has long sought entry into Carlsbad, recognizes that if it succeeds in building a store in the affluent, carefully planned community, it could not be a typical &#8220;big box&#8221; store, Rios said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Upscale? We were trying to think of something funny to say about an upscale Wal-Mart, but the truth is. . . Wal-Mart sucks. And there&#8217;s really nothing funny about that. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/07\/20\/news\/coastal\/carlsbad\/20_33_937_20_07.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wal-Mart has just purchased a 17-arce site at the corner of College Blvd and El Camino Real where it hopes to build &#8220;its most upscale store in the nation,&#8221; (which isn&#8217;t saying much) according to story in the North County Times. It will be an absolute paradigm shift,&#8221; said Wal-Mart spokesman Aaron Rios in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}