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Article: Wal-Mart plans three stores in San Diego County. (Wal-Mart Stores Inc.; San Diego, California; Poway, California; Santee, California; Oceanside, California) (Special Report: Commercial Real Estate) (Company Profile)
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- July 20, 1992
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Retail: Poway on Aug. 4, then Santee and Oceanside
The nation's largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., is coming to San Diego.
The county's first Wal-Mart opens its doors in Poway August 4. Another Wal-Mart is under construction in Santee. And a planned shopping center in Oceanside recently announced that a Wal-Mart store will be its major tenant.
Officials in the three cities are looking forward to the hundreds of thousands of dollars in potential sales tax revenue that will go into their general funds. Both Poway and Santee invested millions of dollars to woo Wal-Mart to their areas.
But many small shop owners near the future Wal-Mart sites ...