Linusville Supercenter Case Study

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Linusville, Pennsylvania is a small rural country town, with a population a little over 42,000. A large department and food store chain is seeking to establish a Supercenter in Linusville. The nearest shopping mall and center to Linusville is forty-five miles away. Linusville boasts several small businesses that include, a small grocery store, farmers market, pharmacy, hardware store, thrift shop, dollar store, a Subway, and several small restaurants. The building of the Supercenter would have several drastic effects on Linusville. Several of the effects include small stores, or mom and pop shops, closing down, job specialization decreasing, salary and employee care decreasing, and farmland and agriculture being taken away. With the arrival…show more content…
There will be no more little hardware stores that can fix everything. There will be no more small sporting goods store where you could get better equipment. There will be no more jewelry stores to get unique pieces of jewelry. The Supercenter will just have general departments, and will have employees that don’t have prior knowledge in the department. It will force customers to buy the same manufactured products that are of lesser quality. These are the ways in which shutting down the mom and pop shops will affect employees and the community. The building of the Supercenter would also have an effect on the environment. The Supercenter would be built on pre-existent farm land. In Wal-Mart Collapses U.S. Cities and Town, Richard Freeman explains that a Supercenter sits on about twenty acres of land and has a building of roughly one hundred and fifty to two hundred thousand square feet. This would in turn have a great effect on the agriculture, due to the loss of…show more content…
All of the small businesses, such as the grocery store, pharmacy, hardware store, and restaurants, would eventually be forced to close. The mom and pop shops wouldn’t be able to compete with the Supercenter. The closing of these stores would have several effects, such as lowering income and cutting ties between owners and employees. The Supercenter would also minimize specialization. The building of the Supercenter would also hurt the environment, by taking away multiple acres of farmland to build on. The Supercenter would not want the crops of the local farmers, because the prices would be too high to keep the prices low. This is why the Supercenter would be a bad fit in the small rural town of
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