Wal-Mart

I love this.

EVERGREEN PARK, Ill. -- Wal-Mart said its new store opening this week the southwestern Chicago suburbs had the largest number of job applicants in the giant retailer's history.

The store is scheduled to open Friday. Crain's Chicago Business reported that the store received 25,000 applications for 325 positions.

The Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer said the only other site that came close to that number of applications was a store in Oakland, Calif. It received some 11,000 applications for about the same number of positions last year.

Wal-Mart's Chicago-area manager said most new Wal-Mart stores receive between 3,000 and 4,000 applications for between 300 and 450 positions.

Well, another example of people voting with their feet. The Wal-Mart jobs offered sufficient pay and benefits to be attractive to 25,000 people.

Why is this so interesting? Well consider more background on the story...

Eighteen months after the Chicago City Council torpedoed a South Side Wal-Mart, 24,500 Chicagoans applied for 325 jobs at a Wal-Mart opening Friday in south suburban Evergreen Park, one block outside the city limits.

The new Wal-Mart at 2500 W. 95th is one block west of Western Avenue, the city
boundary.

Chicago loses out on the taxes and Evergreen Park reaps the benefits of the loony left's faulty logic.

h/t el rushbo