Below were comments published in the Buffalo News, Everybody's Column, July 31 from an AKRON reader, who thinks a Walmart in Alden would be terrific! Imagine that! We encourage EVERYONE to respond to her comments, and defend your community: Buffalo News Policy: Write to Everybody's Column, The Buffalo News, One News Plaza, P.O. Box 100, Buffalo, NY, 14240, or fax to 716-856-5150. You may also send an email to LetterToEditor@buffnews.com. Every single letter is verified by telephone, so be sure to sign your letter and include your address and a day-time phone number. Keep reading and you'll see some of the responses we received from our members since this was published. We hope that you'll reply to the News, and to us!
Chain store represents good quality and prices
When Wal-Mart announced that it wanted to build in Alden, we were so happy. We live in Newstead and travel to Williamsville to shop there. The prices for food are reasonable and the place in and around, very clean. The cashiers are friendly and everyone is very helpful. I have yet to see or hear a crabby person there. They greet you when you go in and tell you to have a pleasant day when you leave.
What is so quaint about Alden? The store and complex aren’t going to be in the town but on the outskirts. We all know you can save a buck or two, which is why we go to Wal-Mart.
Get with the flow, people. It is called “progress.”
Joan Schlegel
Akron
RESPONSES:
"Lets ask the akron resident if we can build a Wal Mart close to Akron Park, I think there is plenty of land there. " Tom O.
"In response to Joan Schlegel of Akron. If you are so unhappy to live so
far from Walmart then why do you live in Newstead? Many of us Aldenites
that don't want to "go with the flow" chose to live in Alden beacause we
like the town the way it is - without a bustling megastore and traffic. I
have lived here for 37 years and am quite happy with the way the town is -
and we have all the things you need. I can still sit on my deck at night
and look at the stars and listen to the crickets chirping. My cousin who
has a Walmart in her backyard watches the lights of the parking lot and
listens to cars. You call it progress - well, progress is only progress if it
improves things. Were you aware that they are already in the process of
building another Walmart in Lancaster, just 15 minutes from Alden? And
have you driven in that area lately? - it is a traffic nightmare. If so many
people are so unhappy about not having shopping choices then why do
they all live so far away from the shopping centers? Driving a fifteen or
twenty minutes is a small price to pay for the peace and quiet of small town
living." Mike B.
"Joan Schlegel of Akron wants Alden to "get with the flow, people. It's called progress..." I am personally voting to have Walmart move to Akron - let's let Akron see the "progress" it will have...........progressively closing Mom & Pop stores, progressively escalating crime and traffic, progressively accumulating litter, and the progressive emptying of village buildings. Ms. Schlegel is more than welcome to that "progress". Any Walmart I have had the misfortune of entering has been filthy, filled with rude, pushy people with a "me first" attitude and employees who wouldn't smile unless you paid them. I used to like driving through Akron, but I can easily avoid it like I do Williamsville and Amherst and Cheektowaga." Nancy W.
"I saw that in last night's paper!! Geeeeeezzz!!!! Then let Akron have it!!!!!!" Lori M.
"This message is in response to Joan Schlegel of Akron who thinks a Walmart in Alden would be terrific! Of course she would! And I think putting one in Akron instead of Alden would be an even better idea! Tell her to please contact Russo Developers and Walmart and invite them to come look at some of Akron's prime farmland. And build it right next to the new Thruway toll, or in her back yard." Coleen C.
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