Magnitude of Walmart HQ moving or starting in Kansas City

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Magnitude of Walmart HQ moving or starting in Kansas City

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I saw on another forum of a rumor Walmart moving it's HQ to Plano which will probably never happen so it got me to thinking; what about the KC Metro? Walton has plenty of ties to Missouri, Before walmart, Sam and Bud Walton opened a Ben Franklin store in Ruskin Heights. Sam Walton went to Mizzou, and his family settled in Columbia, Walmart use to hold its Corporate Conventions in KC, and the KC metro is the first to get a lot of the new walmart concepts.

Can you just imagine if everything related to Walmart was started in this area. This metro would look very different. Possibly 200-300k more people, an economy that would rival and possibly be bigger then Minneapolis. Companies like Tyson, P&G, Unilever, Trucking/Logisitics Companies having a huge presence. The Airport would be different, it would probably have international flights to big cities and would have already been redesigned.

Hell maybe all this corporate poaching and border war might have never started if Walmart was based on the Kansas side.

This whole area would be a lot different but not sure if it would have been a good thing. Wonder what would Northwest Arkansas even be like if Walmart didn't exist?
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Hey, the Royals owner might even live in town!
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brewcrew1000 wrote:Wonder what would Northwest Arkansas even be like if Walmart didn't exist?
Southeast Arkansas, probably.
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Nothing against Sam Walton, but having Walmart HQ is not a badge of honor.
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trailerkid wrote:Nothing against Sam Walton, but having Walmart HQ is not a badge of honor.
Why would it be any worse than most other HQs? Walmart sucks big time (so glad there are so few of them out here). But the economic spinn-off from having a walmart HQ in KC would be incredible and even more important than the actualy HQ itself.
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chaglang wrote:
brewcrew1000 wrote:Wonder what would Northwest Arkansas even be like if Walmart didn't exist?
Southeast Arkansas, probably.
Not really. SE Arkansas is the deep south. NW Arkansas is a pretty pleasant place with Fayetteville, the Boston Mountains and Beaver Lake. I rather enjoy driving through the area going between Houston and KC.

Plano, however, sucks.
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