Montezuma vs Walmart: America Wins AGAIN!

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Associated Press
Mexico Clears Wal-Mart Store Construction
10.07.2004, 01:44 AM

"Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. won a rare victory after Mexican officials and an international preservation group said no damage would be caused by building a discount store less than a mile from the ancient pyramids of Teotihuacan..."

http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2004/10/07/ap1580092.html

I don't even know what to say about this. It's just fucking depressing. I'm moving to Tristan de Cunha.

― andy, Thursday, 7 October 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"Opponents were livid.

"What might this mean? Perhaps they can build a strip club at the Holy Sepulcher, a McDonald's at the ruins of Montealban, or a Hard Rock Cafe next to Pyramids of Egypt," wrote columnist Javier Aranda, referring, respectively, to the site where Jesus was buried and to another famous Mexican ruin...

― andy, Thursday, 7 October 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Stop giving them ideas, Javier!

― Nemo (JND), Thursday, 7 October 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't there already a McDonald's and Starbucks at the Forbidden City in Beijing?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 October 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Only carbs are now Forbidden! Try the new Great Wall of Flavor Lychee Mocha Blast!

― andy, Thursday, 7 October 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, there's a starbucks there.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 7 October 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't thnk you can really characterize Walmart as representing America anymore, tho.

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Thursday, 7 October 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Because Walmart is now owned by the Czechs!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 7 October 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

not so much, but i think Walmart is now in the Czech Republic, yes.

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Thursday, 7 October 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

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