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Originally Posted by gatherer47 (Post 1911104)

an employee said people were lining up at 1:00AM-to get a free insulated shopping bag?--only in the Villagers!

Yet live in a designer home.

Also shopped on opening day although I didn't need anything but did
anyone noticed there seemed to be just as many golf carts as regular cars?
And what was the deal with the off-duty FHP Trooper ?
Is the area really that terrible or was Publix management fearing
that the elderly would be shop lifting all the adult urinary diapers ?

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Originally Posted by Road-Runner (Post 1911089)

We lived in Peachtree City, GA a somewhat similar area to the villages. We had all the shopping anyone could want within 30 minutes in two different directions. But there was money to be made by someone for big box stores to be built so they were. Crime went up immediately and dramatically. The Walmart that was originally open 24 hours/day was forced to being open roughly the same as the other grocery stores in the area. Many there also kept bemoaning the fact that there was no bus service in town, and wanted MARTA to expand bus routes in the county. I'm sure it will happen at some point, I'm just glad we're not living there when it happens. People need to think long and hard about a business' impact on the local quality of life, not just the convenience of more & bigger stores close to the house. My .02.

Yes, everyone loves the active lifestyle in the villages, but change is hard, very hard, and foresight to understand secondary and tertiary effects of ones desires for convenience, is difficult to comprehend the somewhat unknown tradeoffs. One trade off is less cheap opportunities of urban life.

The biggest trade off of the rapid growth of TV is the middle of cow country is lack of services because of the lack of service personnel willing to relocate to the middle of cow country to serve in the middle of nowhere, when there are so many other more vibrant locales to live for the service personnel in the state.

:popcorn:

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Originally Posted by Miss B GA (Post 1910927)

I went to the grand opening yesterday morning. There was a very long line of people waiting to get in. It is a very nice Publix and has the same layout as the one at Trailwinds. They gave away very nice insulated bags to the early shoppers. I'm hoping it will relieve some of the traffic at the Publix at Lake Deaton where I shop. I'm very happy for the folks south of the turnpike so they can enjoy having a Publix closer to them now.

i agree, we used the lake deaton store since we've been here, & will now use magnolia simply because its very close. your lake deaton traffic will reduce, but i will miss the fine folks working over there

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Originally Posted by FG111 (Post 1911243)

Highway Patrol usually mean traffic control.