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re: NWA People: Are we in a boom?
Posted on 10/14/15 at 6:21 pm to hogfly
Posted on 10/14/15 at 6:21 pm to hogfly
They own half the company. It will all work out for them. The online grocery thing and the online shopping thing are going to pay off big for them. Amazon has its fulfillment centers. Walmart is just opening its first dedicated fulfillment centers and has mini-fulfillment centers everywhere they have a supercenter. They are being about as pro-active as they can be in meeting the shift to online shopping.
Their direct retail competition are the ones who are pretty fricked. Target and the like aren't going to be able to make the online-sales transition like Walmart will. The primary strength of Walmart has always been logistics. The things they are doing in NWA and a few select markets right now are the future of their business-model, and I think their pick-up grocery kicks arse. Delivery is coming, too.
Walmart is 20 years ahead of typical grocers in inventory tracking and logistics. It's what they do. They'll smoke the entire field in home delivery and pick up services. Watch and see.
Their direct retail competition are the ones who are pretty fricked. Target and the like aren't going to be able to make the online-sales transition like Walmart will. The primary strength of Walmart has always been logistics. The things they are doing in NWA and a few select markets right now are the future of their business-model, and I think their pick-up grocery kicks arse. Delivery is coming, too.
Walmart is 20 years ahead of typical grocers in inventory tracking and logistics. It's what they do. They'll smoke the entire field in home delivery and pick up services. Watch and see.
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Posted on 10/14/15 at 6:30 pm to wmr
I can't find it online anymore, but I posted a pic of the revised southside Neighborhood Market in the Dickson St thread on woopig. They revamped it to be more modern and fit in with the neighborhood, and it may be the first store they've built with a floorplan built for handling the pick-up side of their grocery business. That will probably become a prototype of its own, like the Garland Center tiny-store became.
If you're counting Walmart out, you haven't paid attention to them over the years. They innovate when the market shifts. They'll continue to be a powerhouse.
If you're counting Walmart out, you haven't paid attention to them over the years. They innovate when the market shifts. They'll continue to be a powerhouse.
Posted on 10/16/15 at 10:27 am to wmr
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. Amazon has its fulfillment centers. Walmart is just opening its first dedicated fulfillment centers and has mini-fulfillment centers everywhere they have a supercenter. They are being about as pro-active as they can be in meeting the shift to online shopping.
The fact that Walmart admits they are 2 years behind Amazon and others is huge red flag. While they are focusing the next 2 years on catch up, the others will continue to set the bar for consumers.
If you think Walmart delivering groceries is going to send them over the top is laughable. The consumer is demanding customer service and quality over convenience.
Simple, people are starting to value their hard earned dollar and spend more time researching quality product and services.
Walmart fails on both
Posted on 10/16/15 at 10:50 am to Pigfeet
Walmart customer service is non-existent
Posted on 10/16/15 at 10:58 am to CtotheVrzrbck
but, but, bring me my damn groceries old man
Posted on 10/16/15 at 7:25 pm to Pigfeet
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If you think Walmart delivering groceries is going to send them over the top is laughable. The consumer is demanding customer service and quality over convenience.
Walgreens, Dollar General, and Family Dollar all expanding rapidly in the shadow of Walmart Supercenters over the past decade prove that you're wrong.
Convenience is more important now than it has ever been. Hell, Amazon's entire business model is built on convenience, dummy. They don't make or sell anything you can't get elsewhere.
Posted on 10/16/15 at 7:27 pm to Pigfeet
Also, you're the guy who claimed he got out of the NWA market because it's going down. LOL.
FYI...
NWA home sales up 22% over last year, setting new records.
FYI...
NWA home sales up 22% over last year, setting new records.
Posted on 10/16/15 at 7:54 pm to wmr
Home prices are ridiculous in NWA. They're bloated big time and they're selling.
Posted on 10/17/15 at 2:26 pm to wmr
Benton county, sure. Home sales are kinda shite the further south you go. Awful in south Fayetteville, and will probably remain that way until 49 is done.
Fayetteville was going full celebration over some company opening a 30 job office. 30 whole entry level code monkeys. The boom in Fayetteville seems to be much more aligned with the scholorship lottery than legitimate economic prosperity. Up north is still red hot.
Fayetteville was going full celebration over some company opening a 30 job office. 30 whole entry level code monkeys. The boom in Fayetteville seems to be much more aligned with the scholorship lottery than legitimate economic prosperity. Up north is still red hot.
Posted on 10/17/15 at 5:56 pm to j1897
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Benton county, sure. Home sales are kinda shite the further south you go. Awful in south Fayetteville, and will probably remain that way until 49 is done.
Nah, you're wrong. Everybody knows Benton County is growing faster than Washington County. That isn't news. It has been that way for 15 years. Benton County adds more new homes than Pulaski County on the reg, and it's still 40% smaller.
Fayetteville and Washington County are booming, too. These are home sales, not apartment construction. This is year over year, and last year was strong, too.
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Washington County
Sales Volume
2015: $450.216 million
2014: $363.247 million
Unit Sales
2015: 2,338
2014: 2,002
Median Sales Price
2015: $163,000
2014: $152,000
This post was edited on 10/17/15 at 5:58 pm
Posted on 10/18/15 at 7:58 am to wmr
I'm worried about the Waltons, not sure they can make it. Maybe we should start a GoFundMe for them?
Posted on 10/18/15 at 10:05 am to wmr
Wish they could divide that by region. Trust me, the further south you get in WACO the worse the market is. People giving stuff away.
Better returns pulling off the market and renting. You can rent something in 20 minutes.
Better returns pulling off the market and renting. You can rent something in 20 minutes.
Posted on 10/18/15 at 10:32 am to j1897
When that big arse park is built people that sold low in S. Fayetteville will be kicking themselves in the arse.
I have zero faith in NWA's abilitiy to pull off proper planning with that park and build another exit south of 6th St. to the road that goes by baum from 15th.
There needs to be a back entry around Kessler connecting 265 and 170 in Farmington, or at least a road connecting the eas t side of Farmington and going around to 265. 1 route into Fayetteville from Farmington/PG/Lincoln is craziness.
Anyhoo that park is going to make that area of Fayetteville hot, and 'mid-town' will continue to suck.
I have zero faith in NWA's abilitiy to pull off proper planning with that park and build another exit south of 6th St. to the road that goes by baum from 15th.
There needs to be a back entry around Kessler connecting 265 and 170 in Farmington, or at least a road connecting the eas t side of Farmington and going around to 265. 1 route into Fayetteville from Farmington/PG/Lincoln is craziness.
Anyhoo that park is going to make that area of Fayetteville hot, and 'mid-town' will continue to suck.
Posted on 10/18/15 at 1:33 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
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Anyhoo that park is going to make that area of Fayetteville hot, and 'mid-town' will continue to suck.
Apple Blossom Brewing Co is supposed to build a 3 story mixed use building next to Greenhouse Grill with residential on top. There are some mixed-use plans for MLK east of School, too. South side is heating up.
Midtown is actually looking up. The old LJS is gone at Sycamore and is being replaced by a new retail building. That area will get a boost in the next year when the city rebuilds College from Maple to North with 10' sidewalks on each side. Zweig has already bought the old Twin Arch motel and Collier bought the University Auto bldg behind Lacuna (formerly Doc Murdock's).
This post was edited on 10/18/15 at 1:36 pm
Posted on 10/18/15 at 1:45 pm to wmr
:) I knew I could trigger you.
I've said this before on here. The only pretty things in NWA are the things outside the cities. I go to other cities in the region and there's good city parks, there's well-planned entertainment districts, vibrant downtowns, and greenspaces that are well taken care of.
Aesthetics in NWA are less than inspiring, and when a developer does try to do something well, their neighbors are sure to frick up their property with a used car lot, multi-family dwellings, or just let their property remain distressed.
Posted on 10/18/15 at 2:58 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
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I've said this before on here. The only pretty things in NWA are the things outside the cities.
This blows my mind if you really believe this.
Downtown Fayetteville is pretty great. I get that Springdale is fugly. Downtown Bentonville and Downtown Rogers are both great.
Wilson Park is a gem. Mt. Sequoyah, Mt. Kessler (only getting started) and all of the trails in Fayetteville...Gulley Park, etc.
I don't know a helluva lot about the rest of the cities in the metro, but if you honestly think Fayetteville is ugly or has no good amenities or parks or "cool areas", I don't know what you're smoking. Lake Sequoyah, Lake Fayetteville, the Botanical Gardens, etc. What standard are you using?
We don't have things like really large cities do, but c'mon. We really are a collection of sorta small towns. Fayetteville compares extremely well to any place I've ever been as far as in-town nature areas, parks, and having a livable, cool downtown. And I've been a helluva lot of places.
This post was edited on 10/18/15 at 3:01 pm
Posted on 10/18/15 at 4:01 pm to Pigfeet
I really hope you aren't in retail. Because you may have the most basic principles completely back asswards
Posted on 10/18/15 at 4:18 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
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Aesthetics in NWA are less than inspiring, and when a developer does try to do something well, their neighbors are sure to frick up their property with a used car lot, multi-family dwellings, or just let their property remain distressed.
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less than inspiring
Yeah...
This post was edited on 10/18/15 at 4:19 pm
Posted on 10/18/15 at 4:24 pm to wmr
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Walmart is 20 years ahead of typical grocers in inventory tracking and logistics.
Then why the frick can you never find REAL chocolate milk there on Sundays? Or hot dog buns? Always out of stock...
Posted on 10/18/15 at 4:34 pm to Porker Face
I know, I think I'm being trolled.
If you live north of downtown in Fayetteville like I do, you live within 3 miles of a 640 acre public park with a big lake in the middle and trails all the way around...oh, and adjacent to that is a 100 acre botanical garden. Also within 1 mile, anywhere you live, is Gulley Park, Wilson Park, both great parks. You aren't more than a few minutes from a trailhead that puts you onto 50 miles of trails and greenway in the city, and connects you non-stop through all of the cities to the north for 30 miles.
The overlooks at Mt. Sequoyah are probably the most inspiring views in any city limit anywhere for 500 miles.
All of that in a town of 80k people.
If your standard is chainlink fence "ballfields" and a "sports-complex", then yeah, Fayetteville is sort of behind the curve on that front. In a year or so, when Kessler Regional is built, we'll have all of that, plus it will be adjacent to a 600 acre mountain park, and accessible from the entire city via bicycle. I mean, wtf do you even want?
If you live north of downtown in Fayetteville like I do, you live within 3 miles of a 640 acre public park with a big lake in the middle and trails all the way around...oh, and adjacent to that is a 100 acre botanical garden. Also within 1 mile, anywhere you live, is Gulley Park, Wilson Park, both great parks. You aren't more than a few minutes from a trailhead that puts you onto 50 miles of trails and greenway in the city, and connects you non-stop through all of the cities to the north for 30 miles.
The overlooks at Mt. Sequoyah are probably the most inspiring views in any city limit anywhere for 500 miles.
All of that in a town of 80k people.
If your standard is chainlink fence "ballfields" and a "sports-complex", then yeah, Fayetteville is sort of behind the curve on that front. In a year or so, when Kessler Regional is built, we'll have all of that, plus it will be adjacent to a 600 acre mountain park, and accessible from the entire city via bicycle. I mean, wtf do you even want?
This post was edited on 10/18/15 at 4:38 pm
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