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re: Definitive Rankings of the SEC towns
Posted on 4/2/14 at 7:04 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
Posted on 4/2/14 at 7:04 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
quote:UA has a Chick-Fil-A in the Ferguson Center (the student union) and another in Lloyd Hall.
A better question would be, how many of the student unions on SEC campuses have a Chik-Fil-A?
Pic of the one in Lloyd.
The Ferg is also home to the largest Starbucks in the USA.
This post was edited on 4/2/14 at 7:15 pm
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Posted on 4/2/14 at 7:25 pm to KSGamecock
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How are small businesses in Fayetteville doing? Are there any Mom and Pop places still around?
A lot more than the average city of 78k people. Fayetteville loves small business. We have lots of little shops and boutiques. Its kind of a college town thing in most real college towns.
Fayetteville has two Supercenters (both on the fringe of town), and a couple of neighborhood market groceries. We get the roll-out of new stuff like that sooner than other markets, but the local grocer Harps is doing fine and expanding, too. Bentonville has a WalMart convenience store. Soon all grocers and convenience stores will be Walmarts.
This post was edited on 4/2/14 at 7:27 pm
Posted on 4/2/14 at 7:32 pm to Motengator
Central Baptist is in Bryan, that's why they weren't counted.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 7:34 pm to wmr
We do love our mom and pop stores in Fayetteville. Fayetteville is BIG on keeping it local and supporting the small business. In Fay we have what, 3 wal marts total? One on the very South side of town, one on the very North side of town, then we have the wal mart mark in the middle. I guess you can include the wal mart-campus one but no one really does.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 7:36 pm to Marty McFrat
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Fayetteville is BIG on keeping it local and supporting the small business
Posted on 4/2/14 at 7:37 pm to ShaneTheLegLechler
Well in a way Wal-Mart is a local business. Not so small but it is local.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 7:38 pm to KSGamecock
True
Posted on 4/2/14 at 7:39 pm to ShaneTheLegLechler
How so? You realize wal mart wasn't founded in Fayettevile nor is the HQ there right? Fay has a "hippie" and family vibe that encourages keeping it local. Saturday farmers market starts up again soon and I can't wait to go buy some good food from them.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 7:43 pm to ShaneTheLegLechler
It's not ironic 
Fayetteville has tried very hard throughout the years to keep itself feeling small and not commercialized. You won't see tall signs on the interstate through Fayetteville and lots of local businesses do well here. You're thinking of WalMart. That's from Bentonville.
Fayetteville has tried very hard throughout the years to keep itself feeling small and not commercialized. You won't see tall signs on the interstate through Fayetteville and lots of local businesses do well here. You're thinking of WalMart. That's from Bentonville.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 7:43 pm to Marty McFrat
Yeah I'm not surprised Fayetteville has that vibe from hearing about the culture. It's definitely ironic though that it supports local businesses so fervently in their area while reaping the rewards of being located close to a company that runs them out in other areas.
And I don't dislike Wal Mart or think they're evil like some people do, that's America, I just think its funny
And I don't dislike Wal Mart or think they're evil like some people do, that's America, I just think its funny
Posted on 4/2/14 at 7:46 pm to ShaneTheLegLechler
That is pretty funny. Fayetteville embraces wal mart and accepts it. But it does not want to change and be overtaken by them if it can help it.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 7:53 pm to ShaneTheLegLechler
Its a strange thing. You can read local sites and there are the same types of people who bash the Waltons and Wal-Mart, but its also hard to bash them too hard when they keep dropping millions for local arts and parks projects.
The city fervently supports local business, and keeping the city unique, but they also love the money the Waltons keep throwing at the arts scene, so they don't ever want to say anything to piss them off.
Its a homegrown company, though, so there's a whole different perspective. A little like sleeping next to a giant. We all know the Waltons have the money and power to make Bentonville into whatever they want it to be. We play nice, because they throw lots of $ our way, too.
The city fervently supports local business, and keeping the city unique, but they also love the money the Waltons keep throwing at the arts scene, so they don't ever want to say anything to piss them off.
Its a homegrown company, though, so there's a whole different perspective. A little like sleeping next to a giant. We all know the Waltons have the money and power to make Bentonville into whatever they want it to be. We play nice, because they throw lots of $ our way, too.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 7:56 pm to wmr
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Its a strange thing. You can read local sites and there are the same types of people who bash the Waltons and Wal-Mart, but its also hard to bash them too hard when they keep dropping millions for local arts and parks projects.
Yeah this is what I was getting at, the same thing goes on in TX with people who bash big oil but enjoy the universities and museums funded by their CEOs.
The fact that such a large company has thrived in a smaller metro area is definitely cool
Posted on 4/2/14 at 7:57 pm to wmr
I have a definite appreciation for the Waltons, but the impact they seem to have had on their community is really small compared to the impact someone with significantly less money (Tony Hsieh) has had here in downtown Las Vegas in a lot less time.
Then again, if the Waltons started their own urban renewal thing with a profit motive it would probably get badly criticized.
Eta: outside of the obvious economic benefits of having the company located there. I guess you could say NWA would be a shell of its current state without the Waltons, but I'm talking about the benefits outside of the necessary stuff.
Then again, if the Waltons started their own urban renewal thing with a profit motive it would probably get badly criticized.
Eta: outside of the obvious economic benefits of having the company located there. I guess you could say NWA would be a shell of its current state without the Waltons, but I'm talking about the benefits outside of the necessary stuff.
This post was edited on 4/2/14 at 8:03 pm
Posted on 4/2/14 at 8:03 pm to Mizzeaux
I think they've had a large impact here. We've had the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville since 1992.
Its amazing how they can just make shite happen. Fayetteville spent 10 years or so squeezing money out of its budget, planning, and acquiring ROW before it started building the city-wide bike trail network in 2005. It was a huge undertaking and the city is really proud of it.
A few years back, the Waltons decided "hey, we want Bentonville and the rest of NWA to have that, too", so they started dropping $ on connecting the whole region with a greenway. Fayettevillle got the least help because we had done all of the hard stuff ourselves without their money. Its nice that the other NWA cities will all be connected, but its kind of like....give us some credit and let us have more, man.
Its amazing how they can just make shite happen. Fayetteville spent 10 years or so squeezing money out of its budget, planning, and acquiring ROW before it started building the city-wide bike trail network in 2005. It was a huge undertaking and the city is really proud of it.
A few years back, the Waltons decided "hey, we want Bentonville and the rest of NWA to have that, too", so they started dropping $ on connecting the whole region with a greenway. Fayettevillle got the least help because we had done all of the hard stuff ourselves without their money. Its nice that the other NWA cities will all be connected, but its kind of like....give us some credit and let us have more, man.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 8:06 pm to Mizzeaux
Bentonville is a city of 40k people with an amazing art museum, soon to have a 2500 seat performing arts center, and a children's science museum.
Those are their public projects. There are other private ventures happening downtown, too. Bentonville's downtown and dining scene are really becoming something special, with a lot of private Walton help and public help from the Walton Foundation.
Its honestly not much of a joke nowadays to say Fayetteville is the nicest suburb of Bentonville/Rogers.
Those are their public projects. There are other private ventures happening downtown, too. Bentonville's downtown and dining scene are really becoming something special, with a lot of private Walton help and public help from the Walton Foundation.
Its honestly not much of a joke nowadays to say Fayetteville is the nicest suburb of Bentonville/Rogers.
This post was edited on 4/2/14 at 8:07 pm
Posted on 4/2/14 at 8:09 pm to KSGamecock
An Aggie fan on here and myself had a brief debate on who had more Catholics btw Baton Rouge and college station. I jokingly said TAMU bc of all the Mexicans in the state but I guess I was right. Not that it matters.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 8:11 pm to RBWilliams8
CS is like 13% Hispanic or something. Probably more than every other SEC town I guess but still not that high. There really are just a lot of white catholic people there for some reason
Posted on 4/2/14 at 8:12 pm to KSGamecock
I wonder how many places Alabama and auburn would climb on the sex offender list if their legal consensual age wasn't 16...
Not a knock on either, more of a point that the sex offender list is severely skewed with statutory rape with 17 year olds in most states.
Not a knock on either, more of a point that the sex offender list is severely skewed with statutory rape with 17 year olds in most states.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 8:13 pm to KSGamecock
Most of Auburn's trailers are students.
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