Barry:
I live about 1 mile from the new Wal-Mart mentioned in that yahoo news article. You should have seen the parking lot today (the first Saturday it was open). There's an elevated highway on one side of the parking lot, and when I drove it today I looked down on the Wal-Mart parking lot. There literally was not a single vacant spot.
What's interesting is that right across the street is a Super Target that's about 5 years old. It's established and has the higher-class connotation that people in this locale place so much emphasis upon. It will be interesting to see which one survives.