Chicago Big Box Wars - Round 2

Wal-Mart aims again at Chicago's once resistant retail sector - WSJ article.

If at first you don't succeed, try try again...especially when your enemy is weak. (Chicago city Rankings-Forbes)

My fears are no longer within site...they are now pounding on the door. I wondered if the current economic downturn could realize a positive effect for smaller local business in the long run. That possibly citizens and legislatures would realize that big box retailers sucked too much money out of the locality and into the select few shareholders in the upper tiers of the economic classes. I also feared that the impending depression would drown out local business and create monopolies for the very few retailers that have enough capital to sustain themselves through low consumption periods.

Well, the war has begun with Wal-Mart trying to capitalize on what may become a desperate and helpless consumer population. The wealthy know how to play the game of capitalism. They know how to hold on to their money and then invest it at dirt cheap prices when nobody else has any money of their own to take a risk with.