I hate to admit it but they kinda got me. I've never really given Bentonville a second thought but now I want to visit. Wouldn't move there but I now want to spend a week there visiting restaurants, the museum, and the hiking trails. Darn it Walmart. 😂
@@AlohaBlockchain Because Walmart has made damn sure they don't have any other option by pushing or buying out any local options that would have otherwise been available. So you can stop your victim blaming now.
its nothing special anymore. just bumper to bumper traffic, high house prices, smug arrogant racist rich white people. i been here 25 years and visited prior and seen the change. all the old cheap houses around down town are being demoed for hotels, condos, parking garages, or million dollar houses
@@GNMi79 NYC has so many different options where you can work and what you can do, there are a lot of different industries where people make a lot of money. In this town it's just Walmart.
@@jul.escobar Who hurt you? 😂 Those are not liberal parents. They're conservatives. They have the correct values to pass on their estate to the next generation.
It's crazy how Northwest Arkansas is doing so well, yet Arkansas still has the 5th highest poverty rate in the country. The rest of the state drags it down so much.
Exavtly, i wouodnt be caught dead anywhere else in Arkansas but the NW is so beautiful, the towns , the nature blow the rest of the state out the water
@@morganharris2413That's an excellent point. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 2022 figures shows that Arkansas is 9th highest state in terms of the Supplemental Poverty Measure.
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Bentonville doesn’t have a flight to NYC, Northwest Arkansas does. Our airport is addressed in Bentonville but outside city limits so it’s independent from any city
Back in 2000 I interviewed and got a job offer with Walmart IT in Bentonville while in college. Recruiter told me 55 hours a week will probably be the normal. That was a turnoff to me. Call me lazy I guess.
Haha… so Walmart! I worked at a Walmart store when I was in college. I worked evenings and managers made you stay until the store was clean for the next day. Here’s the catch: they’d restart the clock at midnight so if you came in let’s say: 4 PM, at midnight you would have worked 7.5 hours but since they started the clock, it’d be considered like you just started so you wouldn’t go into overtime after 8 hours at 12:30 AM. They were sued years later and lost. I guess a job is better than no job but Walmart was down there.
@@MohawkIndustriesDal-Tilethat’s recent, the real driver is they require all of their vendors/suppliers to have an office there if they want to do business with them. They own all of the land and ‘force’ everyone to come to them. They also pay their people (in corp) really really well and had great incentive packages for people to move there
@@mithicash1444 Nothing is really low cost anymore unless you live in the ghetto. The thing is that WMT is moving people from big cities, where standard of living is much higher. 2000sqft house is like a million in SF so of course they can afford these new built.
My wife and I lived in northwest Arkansas for 5 years. We chose to move there for the natural beauty of the state, the multitude of outdoor opportunities, and a desire for the community feeling and small town charm that towns like Bentonville and Fayetteville offered. During our time there, the amount of growth the region experienced was unimaginable. The infrastructure down there is not set up to support that level of growth, and they simply can’t keep up. For every brand that Walmart carries in its stores, they require a rep from that company to live in NWA to have a presence at the Bentonville headquarters. Walmart, coupled with Tyson Foods, and JB Hunt headquarters out of Springdale means there’s no end in sight for the growth. So much of the beautiful landscape has been torn up and sold to real estate groups who can’t build new houses and businesses fast enough. My wife and I left Arkansas 3 years ago to move back to our home state of Kansas because we couldn’t stand what the area was becoming. So much of the small town charm and beauty that we once loved, being leveled with the forests for profit. Yes, the area has become very economically prosperous, but there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Economic prosperity comes at a high cost there, as has also become the case in places like Austin, Salt Lake City, etc. that sort of life simply isn’t for me.
Lifelong Arkansan here, with a brief chapter in Tulsa, and I must say this is the best description I’ve read in various threads/comment sections. 👏🏼👏🏼 It breaks my heart to see the destruction of the land, while mega corporations and elitists take over a small community.
Yes it's getting very bad traffic and crazy speeding plus rising rents and real estate. We're being replaced. Primarily from the California migration after c19. I wanted to buy a home but they skyrocketed so now I will choose another state. So much for the small town feel.
Having just drove 12 hours to spend 8 days mountian biking there, i can honestly say it was one of the nicest places i have ever been. and i cant wait to go back. the town and biking are amazing.
Liberals moving to Southern states has not been very successful. Most hate it and move on or move back. I am 67, live in the South and have seen this again and again.
Nope. These folks aren't taking the city bus and it certainly doesn't look they'll be needing apartment buildings. These are high ranking executives who are buying multi-million dollar homes. Y'all try to turn everything into some ghetto nonsense.
@@GNMi79 Yeah, let’s look at Los Angeles the city that is known for its large amount of homeless people as a reason to why other cities do not need a mixed zone and multifamily unit housing. Not everyone works at Walmart up here. The a large chunk of people here work for companies that work with Walmart not under Walmart directly. The vast majority people that live up here, have no connection to Walmart other than their shopping destination.
@@lindarusch9660 Same things is happening in Europe. Big companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. move into a city, and all the prices skyrocket. Then regular people who don't make 200k euros a year can't afford a tiny single bedroom apartment.
I live south of Bentontville. The growth here in Northwest Arkansas is unbelievable! I have only been here a year, and it has rapidly grown even in a year timeframe!
Arkansas is home. I’ve lived here most of my life and I don’t plan on leaving. It’s quiet where I live. I wake up to hearing birds chirping. I can get off work and hit the trails. The people are nice. Southern hospitality thrives here.
no southern accent from him = not a long time resident. the only ones on the video with southern accent was the old man with the farm and the restaurant owner
According to Google, the Walton family makes $100 million dollars per day. Even if this number is inflated by 10x and say it's only $10 million per day, then I'm not really impressed by anything the family has done in Bentonville, it's just chump change to them and at that level of wealth it would be disgusting not to give back to the community.
Not give back? Go pull the Walton Family Foundation's 990. There is over 450 pages of organizations they gave money to. And it is not $10k here and there, it is HUGE amounts of money for really amazing causes.
@@yotesfan i didn't say or imply that they do not give back, what I say was that I'm not impressed with the money that they do give. With 100 million dollars a day and only three options of spend, save, or give away your going to inevitably run out of things to spend on.
We went there on a graduate school trip. It’s marketed well but there is literally nothing to do there. Everything is still under construction and underwhelming. Plus, prices were quite high for everything even though it’s in the middle of nowhere.
In 2008 I was recruited by Walmart in set up a program management office. I insisted on an amount of money that I figured they would dismiss.They didn't. Five years later, I retired and moved, with a fat retirement account to Mexico. I liked NW Arkansas, but I liked warm weather more.
I don't think outsiders realize just how beautiful Arkansas is. With that in addition to the obvious business boom and mass relocation from more expensive states, I can definitely see the population exploding in the coming years.
We go to Bentonville every spring from Minnesota for mountain biking! It's such a cute town, with such a fun bike community atmosphere! Eureka Springs is fun to visit too and they have shuttle downhill mt bike park! Love Bentonville
You know how there are a ton of ghost towns in the midwest bc the automobile industry left and everything got outsourced overseas? This is how the towns looked/started when there were still people there, and a glimpse of what this town will one day look.
maybe the youngsters don't remember all the other stores we had before walmart under priced them out of business. then raised prices once all the competition had gone bankrupt..i've been to area's where walmart is your ONLY CHOICE for some items within 50 miles or mail order.
I spent a week in Lowell Arkansas for a week of training at jb hunt headquarters, the folks who live there are nice enough but the weather is absolutely atrocious and garbage. Also there’s nothing whatsoever to do there
grew up here my whole life. Genuinely asking, what would you expect to do and what do you do in other places? I see plenty of great restaraunts and outdoors activities.
Well for one nothing in Arkansas stays open after 10 pm ,there is no night life in the whole northwest Arkansas besides Dickson street and that's only obnoxious bars for drunk college kids. The malls there for example are ghost towns and lack many stores , for example u can’t even find a Apple Store in northwest Arkansas for many needs u must travel all the way to Tulsa Oklahoma let’s not act silly here 😂
I am a mortgage loan officer & I write a lot of loans in this area & it is not just the young flocking there. They are of various ages, and some are out of state, but many already live there & are buying now before they get priced out!
Welp, I was gonna move there from my home town of Denver…. But I won’t be doing that now. As someone who watched what happens to an amazing city once is gets popular (Denver) I HIGHLY suggest y’all get out now. It’s miserable what happens to a state and cities when money and people flood in. It hollows everything out and strips every. Single. Thing of joy.
I thought it was interesting too they said how people move from Colorado to Bentonville ... I had no idea?! LOL and I once worked at a Walmart. never again. I think everyone should work retail for a little while. They would be kinder to their cashier LOL
Remember that Walmart paying minimum wage and so little that their employees have to be on food stamps is what is subsidizing these peoples lifestyles. Instead of having these people make $100,000 a year wouldn’t it be better if everybody made 60,000?
Youre overlooking the network of companies that partner with Walmart and who have a presence there as a result. Food, beverage, and other product brands as well as transportation and logistics companies.
@@ThriftyCHNR Depends on what you consider “backwards”. She moved there so if the people have conservative family values she isn’t aligned with she should still be prepared to respect them and not just blatantly toss out a word like that with a pretty negative connotation and a feeling of superiority against the locals.
Feel sorry for her dog, the poor thing never will meet other pets in such “conservative and backward town” 😅 he is in permanent lockdown! Nice job Walmart!
The irony is that the woman who runs the baby division is a single, middle-aged, unmarried, hipster woman who has no kids and just has a dog. Wonderful 🤣🤣
She is in charge of sourcing products. She's not dealing with Marketing or Comms. I've never worked at Nike, but I'm pretty sure there are a fair number of execs there that don't like to run.
Oh my God, to listen to her. "...I had this vision of this really poor rural community, maybe a little backwards and a little conservative.". That says it all right there. Her attitude will never change.
I lived there from 2014-2016, and it was a quiet Christian town. I was super progressive and 'anti-Christian', so I hated it initially. During the time I spent there, I gradually softened as the locals there embraced me & the quiet pace of life helped me. Many women witnessed to me about Jesus while I lived there, which surrounded me with love and further broke down my walls. I was saved there and became a Christian, and so I have wonderful memories of it. However, years later I came back to visit and it looked very different. I no longer recognize it, and I wouldn't say it was a conservative Christian town any longer. It looks very progressive. Funny enough, when I moved there I wanted it to be more like that....but now I'm sad to see it looking like a bigger city.
Ah yes. NW Arkansas routinely lands in the top 5 best places to live in the US so naturally the comments are filled with people prattling on about how terrible it would be to live here. All of whom have never been here. The good news is we have more then enough people who want to move here. We are thrilled beyond words to not have to worry about y'all moving up here and screwing up the local economy.
I have never in my life seen as much hatred shown to a state and its people than I have seen with Arkansas. It's kind of disgusting the way people treat others just for being born here, experienced it all my life when traveling.
I grew up there. Rogers. 5th and Cedar behind Hi D Ho. It used to be affordable. It's not anymore. They're closing all the low income housing to build luxury units. They're expecting the average workers to just deal. They won't. If they strike, that's the entire production hub up there. It's set up to be an epic collapse. Rent is up 5x in 7 years. Wages haven't moved at the bottom. You're delusional if you think it's all okay. It's an empire built on a dry haystack as Sam would say.
Drove threw Bentonville about ten years ago. It is on the southwestern side of the Ozarks, which is a very pretty region. Lots of wealthy Walmart executives have resulted in an affluent area with upscale housing, shopping, and dining options. I can see why that would be attractive for some people, though I suspect it is an expensive place to call home. Springfield, Missouri is probably a cheaper option.
It's hard to imagine this town's reality. The roads must be congested for blocks, creating an unsustainable situation. Once the housing market crashes, people tend to leave.
You try not to drive in downtown Bentonville, the town is pretty walkable and extremely bikeable. I visited there in 2022, it wasn't that bad for traffic, but there is very little parking in downtown by design
@@mrvwbug4423 I believe that in the future, parking and congestion will increasingly worsen over time. Despite this, I am quite fond of that town, as I have cousins residing there.
Love NW Arkansas but it’s outgrown itself. You did not mention Rogers , Fayetteville and Springdale. NW Arkansas is the most populated area of the state. In 2003 Wal Mart forced vendors to have an office in the area. It even caused growth in SWMo.
Dallas here. Enjoy your Middle of No----------Bentonville community. I'm perfectly fine with Dallas and I know a lot of your execs and high performers were too, seeing that they left you to stay with us LOL.
I recently left springfield missouri, which is at the northern end of the same region geographically. It's obvious this whole region is really special for the midwest. I expect all of it will grow soon and frankly curious why it hasn't already grown. Springfield is full of cheap houses, plenty of jobs (bass pro & oreilly auto parts hq), plenty of nature to explore (ozark mountains, table rock lake, ect), so now it seems all they need is the humanistic amenities, aka nice infrastructure downtown areas ect for the place to really have it all, which is obviously what they are in the process of building. Also the sole reason they aren't as big as kc, stl, and memphis is because it's not on a large river, which is obviously not quite as important now as it was 150 years ago when those cities had lots of growth. It's going to be very interesting to see how the ozarks will grow.
Walmarts PR team is good! They make people forget all the layoffs. I remember some years back Walmart laid off a bunch of their drivers who were making top pay to hire new drivers at a lower pay scale. Then they would rehire the drivers they laid off at lower pay. If you work for them, don't ever fully commit, only do enough, document everything your managers communicate to you, live light and save money incase you gotta move, keep that resume fresh. Finally, Walmart is never your family or friend. They will throw you out when the numbers need to look good.
One of my friends said that Walmart is forcing corporate workers from all over the USA to move to Bentonville, AR or to San Luis Obispo, CA or get laid off. He quit the job.
The disparity between this corporate campus and the average Walmart store is stark. Most Walmart stores seem like a ghetto. Dented cans in the dry foods aisles are common. It is infuriating how often their website gets in the way when you want to do something very basic, in part because the same site attempts to double as a site for each local bricks and mortar location, for in-person, self-managed shopping and as an aspiring Amazon clone, in spite of this being one of the biggest companies in the world with ostensibly deep pockets. It's remarkable to me that the company has not yet collapses when the stores themselves and the website are all dreadful, and you much prefer going to do grocery shopping at other chains like Publix or even Aldi. Go look at the replacement HVAC filter section in the hardware department of a typical supercenter ... it's a chaotic mess that looks like no employee has touched in two weeks. Russian employees on the sales floor will claim not to be able to speak English, but you know they couldn't possibly function under a grocery manager if they couldn't speak English, so apparently they are lying. Walmarts are a ghetto. There is a complete disconnect between the stores and site and this class that aspires to make Bentonville the next Mountain Home California, Google-esque campus with all of the ludicrious home-away-from-home corporate campus perks. Moreover, the campus takes up more land than necessary as they perpetuate the negative practice of building outward instead of up to alleviate the need for developing what could otherwise be virgin land.
We didn't want the biking 10 years ago, it's just implants that Stuart Walton brought in. Crystal Bridges and the "art" is modern garbage that doesn't represent this area. Just New Yorkers.
The mountain biking is the primary reason for Bentonville's growth. It is one of the biggest MTB destinations in the world. Bentonville is now a tourist town first and the HQ of Wal Mart second.
NW Arkansas is an outdoor paradise. I haven’t been there in 20 years, but these changes seem to have made it a good place to live for younger people too. OTOH you have to deal with southern politics and tornadoes.
I read that Walmart is closing underperforming stores in Atlanta now with more to come. Aldi is now the grocery chain that now leads in lowest prices in the US, and they plan to expand. Also, another German grocery chain, Lidl has plans to expand in the US as well. Walmart stock, a risk now. From 2010-2023 I bought 80% of my groceries at Walmart, now I get 80% of my groceries at Aldi, the other 20 does go to Walmart and other chains close by. Seems to be a pattern. Aldi also bought Winn Dixie.
At least a million-dollar home looks like a million-dollar home in Bentonville. Try spending that much on a home in Los Angeles or San Francisco...gonna have rodents and crackheads for neighbors.
Well that's why there's a hcol area and lcol area. It's not really rocket science at all. Of course LA, SF and NYC will have more terrible options for higher prices. Because it's all supply and demand at the end of the day.
The traffic is horrible and there are very few ways around. Many roads are still just 1 lane on each side. Downtown is an absolute nightmare to drive through most of the time, while Walton Blvd is just gridlock for 6-8 hours of the days. Rogers to the south does a much better job with road infrastructure for sure. We are severely in trouble roadwise in Bentonville.
Ask the Walton family why they don't provide infrastructure for all the building they've done? If they make 10 million a day (Sam's kids) each? Instead of passing all of it on to the taxpayer? Many of the stores in NJ are all trashed and they look like flea marts. They are trending down and I hope a competitor comes along and puts THEM out of business.
was it intentional that you decided to not report that the property taxes are higher than floridas property taxes which are skyrocketing at this time? those taxes are HIGH.
Even outside of Wal Mart, remote workers are flocking to Bentonville since it's still cheaper than the coasts. The small town vibe is not really there anymore, it is 100% a tourist town now, but there is a ton of things to do there which is unusual for a town of its size. Oh and if you move there, plan on taking up mountian biking haha.
It's one of the most desirable and fastest growing towns in the US, it has become a HUGE tourist destination as the self proclaimed "mountain biking capital of the world"
That's because it's CNBC and they don't care about happy families. I work for Walmart and moved here to NWA 2 1/2 years ago. It's an amazingly family focused community. There are a lot of the Silicon Valley wannabes as you say and a lot of this sort of promotion is oriented towards these folks. Overall though the community is still full of happy families. It's sad that that isn't a selling point for CNBC to promote.
You also have to like living in a huge tourist town, because Bentonville is the biggest tourist destination in Arkansas and probably the biggest in the lower midwest
Hope everyone knows Fayetteville, a much cooler college town that’s actually in the Ozark mountains, is 30 minutes south of Bentonville and much more progressive
I see what you are doing. you are intentionally talking down NW Arkansas to keep people out and keep home/rent prices from rising. Yes, this place sucks. Don't come here.
Allowing virtually unlimited sales of residential property to be converted into commercial aka: short-term-rental property has made getting a house there ridiculous since you are competing against commercial property investors just to buy residential. We were planning to move there after our kids finished college, they finished a couple years ago and we may opt out of moving there due to what is currently available for the money.
While 99K is impressive for the state of AR, it is not the highest, and not much to write home about. The highest or among the highest is Maumelle, a suburb of Little Rock, with a median income of 114K.
@@ES-qu1jd , How is that educational, health, infrastructure and crime rate down there? They make North Carolina look smart and up to date and I live in NC.
These are people in management and executive positions so that means the people who’ve been there their whole lives won’t be able to afford it in 2-3 years
We haven't been able to afford it for several years already. I'm from Bentonville, and I had to buy outside of a neighboring town many years ago to be able to still live in the area.
The same thing is happening here in my small town. Those of us who grew up here (and didn't want it to change) can scarcely afford to buy a home. Sure, some things are better (more restaurants and shops), but the traffic is terrible, the schools are beyond flooded, and the hospital can not keep up. The rich get richer without pouring some of that money back into the town to help with these things. Crime has gone up, and drugs have become an even bigger problem.
Is nobody gonna talk about how the realtor is using sales data from 10yrs ago with nothing to compare it with to? Instead of drawing a comparison between the national average over those 10 years compared to that local area? Idk what the actual numbers are but it seems like they were intentionally trying to miss lead people.
I would never move to Arkansas. Can we talk about how Arkansas is the ONLY state that doesn’t recognize the implied warranty of habitability? That means that landlords in Arkansas are NOT obligated to make any repairs to their property unless there is a violation of local health and safety codes.
This was not what Sam Walton had in mind when he began WalMart. His idea was to benefit the hardworking lower and middle class man and their families with affordable merchandise because that is where he came from. He would never have done what his greedy children have or approved of it. Walmart as we know it will come to an end, they have growing competition especially in grocery.
@@AlohaBlockchain Corporate shilling gets you nowhere. Aldi exists. Kroger exists. Meijer and local markets exist, and some of us put our money where our mouths are. Hold this L.
@@LiquidDIO If you are okay paying a premium for the same products, good for you. I hope your children are okay with a lower standard of living. I personally am not willing to pay $4 for a Coke at the mom and pop store around the corner from me, especially with their inconvenient hours and lack of selection.
@@mrvwbug4423 Bentonville and Benton county voted for Trump in 2020. And Governor Huckabee Sanders won Benton county by 63% in 2022. You’re just so wrong 😂😂😂. And like it makes a difference even if bentonville was blue 😂, Arkansas voted for Trump and got 65% of the vote here in 2020.
Walmart also has corporate offices in Hoboken, New Jersey and the San Francisco Bay Area. Either one of these is much more preferable than Bentonville if for no other reason than there are greater job opportunities in those places.
So, we just watched a Walmart's recruitment promotion and commercial?
what did you want them to say?
Yup. Thought about that halfway through
Pretty much.
I hate to admit it but they kinda got me. I've never really given Bentonville a second thought but now I want to visit. Wouldn't move there but I now want to spend a week there visiting restaurants, the museum, and the hiking trails. Darn it Walmart. 😂
Bentonville is great; we’ve been many times. Crystal Bridges alone makes it worth the trip.
Meanwhile, Walmart has hollowed out every other small town from the inside out.
And you probably shop there.
@@AlohaBlockchain But it is unfortunate tho
@@AlohaBlockchain exactly !!!!!
Na.. Dollar general and family dollars do. Piece of trash are everywhere.
@@AlohaBlockchain Because Walmart has made damn sure they don't have any other option by pushing or buying out any local options that would have otherwise been available. So you can stop your victim blaming now.
That town looks like a literal South Park parody. What could possibly go wrong when a single employer dominates a city?!
Three Fortune 500 companies, not just Walmart.
thats exactly I was thinking while watching. lol. and this state doesnt have womens right so scary horror show.
@@Mansikkacake omg god forbid a woman take a contraceptive or raise a child, so backwards
@@Mansikkacake It does have grammar and punctuation taught in school, unlike where you are from.
@@Mansikkacakewomens right??
We've already seen how company towns end..
How do they end?
@@benjamindover4337 look into what happens when the company leaves the company town. way too much risk to rely on a single employer
@@benjamindover4337 Ask West Virginia's coal towns.
@@TalynWuff They provided income for millions who raised their families there before moving on.
There is more than one company there though….
Bentonville was on my short list to retire to, I can mark that off now.
its nothing special anymore. just bumper to bumper traffic, high house prices, smug arrogant racist rich white people. i been here 25 years and visited prior and seen the change. all the old cheap houses around down town are being demoed for hotels, condos, parking garages, or million dollar houses
Businesses and the wealthy love to make a beautiful area unaffordable. I’m sorry buddy.
Northern Kentucky’s still pretty nice.
@@Cb20345 Don't tell people, or you'll end up like NWA
@GNMi79
I know this old man. He didn’t talk about the other 2000 he acres he owns right across the Arkansas line
Relocate to Bentonville to work at Wal-Mart, after they complete their annual 10% reorg of all their staff, then you need to relocate back home!😁
Ahhh the house prices aren't high enough for them to figure it out yet. They've got a couple more years to get to this point 😂😂😂
Buddy worked for GM u saw him on TV..SAME THING IF GM leaves the Town is GONE!! If ur the Best u get u can go.Offered me a job NO Thank You.
The people who are moving are executives, IT managers, software developers etc. They are not your typical minimum wage employees.
This is so funny to me 😂
@@barneycasting8331 doesn't make em safe.
It's crazy that people are buying a home for 2.2 million dollars in the middle of nowhere just because of Walmart
In the middle of the Ozarks. Who doesn't want to live in a scenic area. For example, people moved to Seattle for Microsoft and Amazon
@@GNMi79 NYC has so many different options where you can work and what you can do, there are a lot of different industries where people make a lot of money. In this town it's just Walmart.
Thank you! Walmart also owns the local grocery store and bank. A very strange place.
@@saaunique first thing I noticed when driving into Bentonville was the large Walmart gas station
Huge homes with a lot of land. Not comparable with cities with actually good real estate markets.
That farmer's kids are going to have one hell of an inheritance.
If their parents don't vicariously spend or donate it and mock the kids with it using a ton of controls.
@@jul.escobar Who hurt you? 😂
Those are not liberal parents. They're conservatives. They have the correct values to pass on their estate to the next generation.
@@farzana6676 "correct" values. lmao. you're hilarious boomer
@jul.escobar I was born in the 90's. Try again lib 🤣
@@farzana6676 damn, you could have been cool. the 90s were a great decade. instead you turned into a hateful human.
North west Arkansas is the only place worth living in this awful state.
Source: lifelong Arkansan.
pine bluff. haha
Smackover AR
If one needs a job, yes. If retired, it is wonderful. Especially the Hot Springs area.
Never been to Arkansas but after all my research i agree
What about Little Rock?
It's crazy how Northwest Arkansas is doing so well, yet Arkansas still has the 5th highest poverty rate in the country. The rest of the state drags it down so much.
Screw you Northeast Arkansas is good as well. The Jonesboro Brookland Paragould area.
Exavtly, i wouodnt be caught dead anywhere else in Arkansas but the NW is so beautiful, the towns , the nature blow the rest of the state out the water
@@diodelvino3048 not northeast Arkansas.
@@chillax593 ok ,sell me on it then, whats so nice about Northeast Arkansas
@@morganharris2413That's an excellent point. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 2022 figures shows that Arkansas is 9th highest state in terms of the Supplemental Poverty Measure.
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Fun fact, Bentonville is the only city in Arkansas to have a daily flight from New York City. Not even their capital has that.
Little Rock is an international airport
A lot of times it gets cancelled anyways.
Bentonville doesn’t have a flight to NYC, Northwest Arkansas does. Our airport is addressed in Bentonville but outside city limits so it’s independent from any city
@@collinwhitehead Splitting hairs
Back in 2000 I interviewed and got a job offer with Walmart IT in Bentonville while in college. Recruiter told me 55 hours a week will probably be the normal. That was a turnoff to me. Call me lazy I guess.
Haha… so Walmart! I worked at a Walmart store when I was in college. I worked evenings and managers made you stay until the store was clean for the next day.
Here’s the catch: they’d restart the clock at midnight so if you came in let’s say: 4 PM, at midnight you would have worked 7.5 hours but since they started the clock, it’d be considered like you just started so you wouldn’t go into overtime after 8 hours at 12:30 AM.
They were sued years later and lost.
I guess a job is better than no job but Walmart was down there.
My wife worked at Walmart for some time and they would not let her work more than 40 hours a week
@@jpepe-qg4qj Did she work retail on the floor? This was for a corporate salary job I was referring to.
@@jpepe-qg4qj if remember correctly, they wouldn’t schedule to more than 37.5 hours a week or 7.5 hours per day.
Lazy*
They must’ve spent a hell of a lot on relocation packages and bonuses to get people to move there
No, they told their remote employees to relocate or be terminated.
Not as much as you think. The lower standard of living alone is worth for many people.
@@MohawkIndustriesDal-Tilethat’s recent, the real driver is they require all of their vendors/suppliers to have an office there if they want to do business with them. They own all of the land and ‘force’ everyone to come to them. They also pay their people (in corp) really really well and had great incentive packages for people to move there
Many companies do this, it’s not unusual
@@mithicash1444 Nothing is really low cost anymore unless you live in the ghetto. The thing is that WMT is moving people from big cities, where standard of living is much higher. 2000sqft house is like a million in SF so of course they can afford these new built.
My wife and I lived in northwest Arkansas for 5 years. We chose to move there for the natural beauty of the state, the multitude of outdoor opportunities, and a desire for the community feeling and small town charm that towns like Bentonville and Fayetteville offered. During our time there, the amount of growth the region experienced was unimaginable. The infrastructure down there is not set up to support that level of growth, and they simply can’t keep up. For every brand that Walmart carries in its stores, they require a rep from that company to live in NWA to have a presence at the Bentonville headquarters. Walmart, coupled with Tyson Foods, and JB Hunt headquarters out of Springdale means there’s no end in sight for the growth. So much of the beautiful landscape has been torn up and sold to real estate groups who can’t build new houses and businesses fast enough. My wife and I left Arkansas 3 years ago to move back to our home state of Kansas because we couldn’t stand what the area was becoming. So much of the small town charm and beauty that we once loved, being leveled with the forests for profit. Yes, the area has become very economically prosperous, but there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Economic prosperity comes at a high cost there, as has also become the case in places like Austin, Salt Lake City, etc. that sort of life simply isn’t for me.
Lifelong Arkansan here, with a brief chapter in Tulsa, and I must say this is the best description I’ve read in various threads/comment sections. 👏🏼👏🏼 It breaks my heart to see the destruction of the land, while mega corporations and elitists take over a small community.
It is so sad. I can't stand it anymore. We moved just over the state line in Missouri.
Yes it's getting very bad traffic and crazy speeding plus rising rents and real estate. We're being replaced. Primarily from the California migration after c19. I wanted to buy a home but they skyrocketed so now I will choose another state. So much for the small town feel.
Having just drove 12 hours to spend 8 days mountian biking there, i can honestly say it was one of the nicest places i have ever been. and i cant wait to go back. the town and biking are amazing.
It's literally the mountain biking capital now.
Sam Walton would never approve of today's Walmart
What would he say, considering change is the only constant in life? 🤔
Fun Fact: roughly 85% of Walmart workers are so poorly paid they qualify for food stamps.
Sam Walton would buy American goods to resell. Walmart after he died started buy cheap Chinese goods to resell.
NW Arkansas is the only reason we beat Mississippi and Louisiana in all the worst of rankings
Honestly youre not wrong. I heard folks from Arkansas say "thank god for Mississipi" cause theyre so bad it makes Arkansas look like paradise
@@diodelvino3048 you gonna respond to my other comment? Tell me what you think.
Thats not true.
@@diodelvino3048 Literally every state in the south says that, stop with your cliques.
@@Texan1840 keep your attitude to yourself, i dont care.
Great of them to rebuild an idyllic downtown in Bentonville after wrecking thousands of small towns and cities’ all across America.
That's Great that the Californians' that moved to Colorado are now heading to Arkansas!
Liberals moving to Southern states has not been very successful. Most hate it and move on or move back. I am 67, live in the South and have seen this again and again.
Just in time for us Conservatives to show them how much we dont like them so they will tell their buddies to stay away,
@@daisyle1203 Except for Bentonville and Fayatteville, NWA is a very liberal corner of what is otherwise a very conservative state.
@@mrvwbug4423 However, Arkansas is very conservative and the few liberal votes will be drops in a vast ocean. The past 3.5 years will see to that.
@@daisyle1203 you are wrong. North West is blue ING a lot. Arkansas will never be as red as it is now. The tide has turned. The red towns are dying
With growth you always need to pair it with good public transit and mixed used multi family units
Something Bentonville is sorely, sorely lacking in
Nope. These folks aren't taking the city bus and it certainly doesn't look they'll be needing apartment buildings. These are high ranking executives who are buying multi-million dollar homes. Y'all try to turn everything into some ghetto nonsense.
Useless in a place like Bentonville
@@GNMi79
Yeah, let’s look at Los Angeles the city that is known for its large amount of homeless people as a reason to why other cities do not need a mixed zone and multifamily unit housing. Not everyone works at Walmart up here. The a large chunk of people here work for companies that work with Walmart not under Walmart directly. The vast majority people that live up here, have no connection to Walmart other than their shopping destination.
This wouldn't be useless, it would help make housing more affordable with all this growth
So this will raise housing prices like crazy, and regular people won't be able to even start renting here.
I have lived here 44 years. House prices are astronomical. And ridiculous. New teachers can not afford to live here.
@@lindarusch9660 Same things is happening in Europe. Big companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. move into a city, and all the prices skyrocket. Then regular people who don't make 200k euros a year can't afford a tiny single bedroom apartment.
@@lindarusch9660meanwhile, you’re a millionaire.
@@zionismisterrorism8716 Learn to code (that what democrats in the U.S. tell oil, coal, and manufacturing employees who lose their jobs).
@@andyw6996 LOL AI is going to replace 99% of coding jobs out there. It's equivalent to going to college to be an elevator operator.
I live south of Bentontville. The growth here in Northwest Arkansas is unbelievable! I have only been here a year, and it has rapidly grown even in a year timeframe!
Move back :)
Sounds awful
@@doubletap777 nah, I am good
Go home, respectfully.
Congratulations. Your state is the new Colorado!
(Not a good thing)
Arkansas is home. I’ve lived here most of my life and I don’t plan on leaving. It’s quiet where I live. I wake up to hearing birds chirping. I can get off work and hit the trails. The people are nice. Southern hospitality thrives here.
It does? Have you been to Bentonville lately?
Notice how the Chamber of Commerce President was entirely unconcerned with keeping the cost-of-living affordable for existing residents.
They stopped working for us about 10-15 years ago.
no southern accent from him = not a long time resident. the only ones on the video with southern accent was the old man with the farm and the restaurant owner
Sadly don't think I'll ever be able to own a house/rent in my own hometown cause of it
According to Google, the Walton family makes $100 million dollars per day. Even if this number is inflated by 10x and say it's only $10 million per day, then I'm not really impressed by anything the family has done in Bentonville, it's just chump change to them and at that level of wealth it would be disgusting not to give back to the community.
Not give back? Go pull the Walton Family Foundation's 990. There is over 450 pages of organizations they gave money to. And it is not $10k here and there, it is HUGE amounts of money for really amazing causes.
@@yotesfan i didn't say or imply that they do not give back, what I say was that I'm not impressed with the money that they do give. With 100 million dollars a day and only three options of spend, save, or give away your going to inevitably run out of things to spend on.
@@GNMi79 no they don't owe it, however if one does not use such an advantage to help others it's simply greedy
@@GNMi79 Yes they do, all the rich owe us all much more.
@@shannonmorgan6530 They don't do anything for you to be impressed. They don't owe anyone anything. You sound like a commie.
We went there on a graduate school trip. It’s marketed well but there is literally nothing to do there. Everything is still under construction and underwhelming. Plus, prices were quite high for everything even though it’s in the middle of nowhere.
In 2008 I was recruited by Walmart in set up a program management office. I insisted on an amount of money that I figured they would dismiss.They didn't. Five years later, I retired and moved, with a fat retirement account to Mexico. I liked NW Arkansas, but I liked warm weather more.
Tell the rest of the Walmart implants that it's better in NM please lol, there are too many out of towners here.
I’m retiring in Arkansas next year (Hot Springs area). I love the lakes, trees, hills, and golf courses.
many small towns are dealing with the same situation. Always changes when folks move in.
So Walmart decided to move their company back “home” and pushed out a lot of people because they raised the values of everything. Seems nice of them.
Long time Bentonville resident here…looking forward to the day I move far far away.
Funny CNBC forgot to mention how Alice Walton ran over an old lady and ended up killing her.
I don't think outsiders realize just how beautiful Arkansas is. With that in addition to the obvious business boom and mass relocation from more expensive states, I can definitely see the population exploding in the coming years.
We go to Bentonville every spring from Minnesota for mountain biking! It's such a cute town, with such a fun bike community atmosphere! Eureka Springs is fun to visit too and they have shuttle downhill mt bike park! Love Bentonville
Eureka used to have street musicians and places you could sit without anyone walking by
You know how there are a ton of ghost towns in the midwest bc the automobile industry left and everything got outsourced overseas? This is how the towns looked/started when there were still people there, and a glimpse of what this town will one day look.
You’re absolutely correct.
Only a matter of time before Walmart outsources their entire corporate operations to china
maybe the youngsters don't remember all the other stores we had before walmart under priced them out of business. then raised prices once all the competition had gone bankrupt..i've been to area's where walmart is your ONLY CHOICE for some items within 50 miles or mail order.
I spent a week in Lowell Arkansas for a week of training at jb hunt headquarters, the folks who live there are nice enough but the weather is absolutely atrocious and garbage. Also there’s nothing whatsoever to do there
Lol
grew up here my whole life. Genuinely asking, what would you expect to do and what do you do in other places? I see plenty of great restaraunts and outdoors activities.
Well for one nothing in Arkansas stays open after 10 pm ,there is no night life in the whole northwest Arkansas besides Dickson street and that's only obnoxious bars for drunk college kids. The malls there for example are ghost towns and lack many stores , for example u can’t even find a Apple Store in northwest Arkansas for many needs u must travel all the way to Tulsa Oklahoma let’s not act silly here 😂
I am a mortgage loan officer & I write a lot of loans in this area & it is not just the young flocking there. They are of various ages, and some are out of state, but many already live there & are buying now before they get priced out!
What percentage of the houses here would you say are just being sold to large real estate companies, flippers, and Airbnb landlords?
Welp, I was gonna move there from my home town of Denver…. But I won’t be doing that now. As someone who watched what happens to an amazing city once is gets popular (Denver) I HIGHLY suggest y’all get out now. It’s miserable what happens to a state and cities when money and people flood in. It hollows everything out and strips every. Single. Thing of joy.
Bentonville is like CO springs, with 70k people, but worse traffic
I thought it was interesting too they said how people move from Colorado to Bentonville ... I had no idea?! LOL and I once worked at a Walmart. never again. I think everyone should work retail for a little while. They would be kinder to their cashier LOL
Remember that Walmart paying minimum wage and so little that their employees have to be on food stamps is what is subsidizing these peoples lifestyles. Instead of having these people make $100,000 a year wouldn’t it be better if everybody made 60,000?
Did no one see those tornadoes?
One company town. What happens if you get laid off or want to work for a different company?
There's also Tyson and JB Hunt headquarters and all the other supplier offices for any company that partners with Walmart. It's all in the same area.
@@lulzychan JB Hunt and Walmart work cheek to jowl. not really much of an alternative.
There are three Fortune 500 companies in the area.
Youre overlooking the network of companies that partner with Walmart and who have a presence there as a result. Food, beverage, and other product brands as well as transportation and logistics companies.
She lives alone with her dog but thinks that the community is backwards lol.
She needs to think before she speaks.
She probably is right.
@@ThriftyCHNR Depends on what you consider “backwards”. She moved there so if the people have conservative family values she isn’t aligned with she should still be prepared to respect them and not just blatantly toss out a word like that with a pretty negative connotation and a feeling of superiority against the locals.
Feel sorry for her dog, the poor thing never will meet other pets in such “conservative and backward town” 😅 he is in permanent lockdown! Nice job Walmart!
@@JA-2 yeah but she was just stating her opinion.
Why not just have the Walmart Foundation build 2000 homes and sell them at cost to keep prices low.
They need to sell the houses over there as cheap as the Walmart price tags.
Because they'd get flipped at 10 times the price in 5 minutes
someone will buy them and either rent them out for $2500 a month or resell them to double the profit.
The irony is that the woman who runs the baby division is a single, middle-aged, unmarried, hipster woman who has no kids and just has a dog.
Wonderful 🤣🤣
I was thinking the same thing - how strange is that?
She is in charge of sourcing products. She's not dealing with Marketing or Comms. I've never worked at Nike, but I'm pretty sure there are a fair number of execs there that don't like to run.
Oh my God, to listen to her. "...I had this vision of this really poor rural community, maybe a little backwards and a little conservative.". That says it all right there. Her attitude will never change.
@@andyw6996 it's good thing they won't breed
@@andyw6996She even looks very out of place there.
I lived there from 2014-2016, and it was a quiet Christian town. I was super progressive and 'anti-Christian', so I hated it initially. During the time I spent there, I gradually softened as the locals there embraced me & the quiet pace of life helped me. Many women witnessed to me about Jesus while I lived there, which surrounded me with love and further broke down my walls. I was saved there and became a Christian, and so I have wonderful memories of it. However, years later I came back to visit and it looked very different. I no longer recognize it, and I wouldn't say it was a conservative Christian town any longer. It looks very progressive. Funny enough, when I moved there I wanted it to be more like that....but now I'm sad to see it looking like a bigger city.
Ah yes. NW Arkansas routinely lands in the top 5 best places to live in the US so naturally the comments are filled with people prattling on about how terrible it would be to live here. All of whom have never been here. The good news is we have more then enough people who want to move here. We are thrilled beyond words to not have to worry about y'all moving up here and screwing up the local economy.
Too many people here already
I have never in my life seen as much hatred shown to a state and its people than I have seen with Arkansas. It's kind of disgusting the way people treat others just for being born here, experienced it all my life when traveling.
I grew up there. Rogers. 5th and Cedar behind Hi D Ho.
It used to be affordable. It's not anymore. They're closing all the low income housing to build luxury units. They're expecting the average workers to just deal. They won't.
If they strike, that's the entire production hub up there. It's set up to be an epic collapse. Rent is up 5x in 7 years. Wages haven't moved at the bottom.
You're delusional if you think it's all okay. It's an empire built on a dry haystack as Sam would say.
Drove threw Bentonville about ten years ago. It is on the southwestern side of the Ozarks, which is a very pretty region. Lots of wealthy Walmart executives have resulted in an affluent area with upscale housing, shopping, and dining options. I can see why that would be attractive for some people, though I suspect it is an expensive place to call home. Springfield, Missouri is probably a cheaper option.
It's hard to imagine this town's reality. The roads must be congested for blocks, creating an unsustainable situation. Once the housing market crashes, people tend to leave.
You try not to drive in downtown Bentonville, the town is pretty walkable and extremely bikeable. I visited there in 2022, it wasn't that bad for traffic, but there is very little parking in downtown by design
@@mrvwbug4423 I believe that in the future, parking and congestion will increasingly worsen over time. Despite this, I am quite fond of that town, as I have cousins residing there.
Yah the traffic in Bentonville, especially during the work week is horrendous.
It is, it's awful and poorly managed
Love NW Arkansas but it’s outgrown itself. You did not mention Rogers , Fayetteville and Springdale. NW Arkansas is the most populated area of the state. In 2003 Wal Mart forced vendors to have an office in the area. It even caused growth in SWMo.
A town ran by Amazon would be a hellscape. This isn't that bad.
Isn't Seattle Amazon company town?
@@rahuliyer7456Seattle is disgusting
@@rahuliyer7456 Seattle is overrun by radical leftists. They even took over parts of the city and call it CHAZ(Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone) 😂😂😂
@@rahuliyer7456 Seattle was well established before Amazon. Bentonville was a shantytown in comparison
@@slorgdulschmodus Now some people are calling little Seattle.
Dallas here. Enjoy your Middle of No----------Bentonville community. I'm perfectly fine with Dallas and I know a lot of your execs and high performers were too, seeing that they left you to stay with us LOL.
There will be a follow-up video titled "The Fall of Betenville"
Bentonville.
That place was better when it was a field. It was when I was a kid and I’m only 36.
I worked in Walmart for three year, here in Brazil. Was an amazing company to work. I've learnt a lot...
I haven’t seen Bentonville in several decades. Lived here since ‘70…
You're not missing out man
Cool feature, I had no idea there were communities like this in Arkansas
Walton was sued and forced to pay minimum wage. Walmart has a history of underpaying their staff .
I recently left springfield missouri, which is at the northern end of the same region geographically. It's obvious this whole region is really special for the midwest. I expect all of it will grow soon and frankly curious why it hasn't already grown. Springfield is full of cheap houses, plenty of jobs (bass pro & oreilly auto parts hq), plenty of nature to explore (ozark mountains, table rock lake, ect), so now it seems all they need is the humanistic amenities, aka nice infrastructure downtown areas ect for the place to really have it all, which is obviously what they are in the process of building.
Also the sole reason they aren't as big as kc, stl, and memphis is because it's not on a large river, which is obviously not quite as important now as it was 150 years ago when those cities had lots of growth.
It's going to be very interesting to see how the ozarks will grow.
Walmarts PR team is good! They make people forget all the layoffs. I remember some years back Walmart laid off a bunch of their drivers who were making top pay to hire new drivers at a lower pay scale. Then they would rehire the drivers they laid off at lower pay. If you work for them, don't ever fully commit, only do enough, document everything your managers communicate to you, live light and save money incase you gotta move, keep that resume fresh. Finally, Walmart is never your family or friend. They will throw you out when the numbers need to look good.
So, same as any employer.
One of my friends said that Walmart is forcing corporate workers from all over the USA to move to Bentonville, AR or to San Luis Obispo, CA or get laid off. He quit the job.
We've seen this story before.
The disparity between this corporate campus and the average Walmart store is stark. Most Walmart stores seem like a ghetto. Dented cans in the dry foods aisles are common. It is infuriating how often their website gets in the way when you want to do something very basic, in part because the same site attempts to double as a site for each local bricks and mortar location, for in-person, self-managed shopping and as an aspiring Amazon clone, in spite of this being one of the biggest companies in the world with ostensibly deep pockets. It's remarkable to me that the company has not yet collapses when the stores themselves and the website are all dreadful, and you much prefer going to do grocery shopping at other chains like Publix or even Aldi. Go look at the replacement HVAC filter section in the hardware department of a typical supercenter ... it's a chaotic mess that looks like no employee has touched in two weeks. Russian employees on the sales floor will claim not to be able to speak English, but you know they couldn't possibly function under a grocery manager if they couldn't speak English, so apparently they are lying. Walmarts are a ghetto. There is a complete disconnect between the stores and site and this class that aspires to make Bentonville the next Mountain Home California, Google-esque campus with all of the ludicrious home-away-from-home corporate campus perks. Moreover, the campus takes up more land than necessary as they perpetuate the negative practice of building outward instead of up to alleviate the need for developing what could otherwise be virgin land.
She said “the world’s largest private employer”
Idk why i just realized that companies are private and publicly listed at same time smh
I think private in this sense means non-government, as in private sector vs public sector.
When all your eggs are in one basket disaster hangs in the balance. We’ve seen this play out many times in America already
"median listing home price of $599,900"
The biking and art is next level.
We didn't want the biking 10 years ago, it's just implants that Stuart Walton brought in. Crystal Bridges and the "art" is modern garbage that doesn't represent this area. Just New Yorkers.
The mountain biking is the primary reason for Bentonville's growth. It is one of the biggest MTB destinations in the world. Bentonville is now a tourist town first and the HQ of Wal Mart second.
Lol that’s a stretch
NW Arkansas is an outdoor paradise. I haven’t been there in 20 years, but these changes seem to have made it a good place to live for younger people too. OTOH you have to deal with southern politics and tornadoes.
I read that Walmart is closing underperforming stores in Atlanta now with more to come. Aldi is now the grocery chain that now leads in lowest prices in the US, and they plan to expand. Also, another German grocery chain, Lidl has plans to expand in the US as well. Walmart stock, a risk now. From 2010-2023 I bought 80% of my groceries at Walmart, now I get 80% of my groceries at Aldi, the other 20 does go to Walmart and other chains close by. Seems to be a pattern. Aldi also bought Winn Dixie.
At least a million-dollar home looks like a million-dollar home in Bentonville. Try spending that much on a home in Los Angeles or San Francisco...gonna have rodents and crackheads for neighbors.
Well that's why there's a hcol area and lcol area. It's not really rocket science at all.
Of course LA, SF and NYC will have more terrible options for higher prices. Because it's all supply and demand at the end of the day.
Consider that the premium people are wiilling to pay to not have to live in Arkansas.
Give it time. I'm sure we will get there some day.
The traffic is horrible and there are very few ways around. Many roads are still just 1 lane on each side. Downtown is an absolute nightmare to drive through most of the time, while Walton Blvd is just gridlock for 6-8 hours of the days. Rogers to the south does a much better job with road infrastructure for sure. We are severely in trouble roadwise in Bentonville.
Ask the Walton family why they don't provide infrastructure for all the building they've done? If they make 10 million a day (Sam's kids) each? Instead of passing all of it on to the taxpayer? Many of the stores in NJ are all trashed and they look like flea marts. They are trending down and I hope a competitor comes along and puts THEM out of business.
@@b0borden437 They're too busy playing around at their little airport. They have a reputation for violating law by flying too low over town.
What about the Walmart employees that work in the stores? Where are their opportunities? Arkansas has high poverty. Walmart is saving no one
Giving greeters marketing jobs will go well...lol
was it intentional that you decided to not report that the property taxes are higher than floridas property taxes which are skyrocketing at this time? those taxes are HIGH.
Bentonville is amazing for mountain biking!
Whoaaaa $200ish per square foot is so affordable! I can see the appeal (California resident here)
Stay in california, we dont like Democrats in Arkansas.
Even outside of Wal Mart, remote workers are flocking to Bentonville since it's still cheaper than the coasts. The small town vibe is not really there anymore, it is 100% a tourist town now, but there is a ton of things to do there which is unusual for a town of its size. Oh and if you move there, plan on taking up mountian biking haha.
Dang. Add a few more big companies and this place might be the next Austin in like 50 years
The region is projected to be 1 million population in 25 yrs
Lol. Pure propaganda. Median household income of $99k is nothing spectacular, and it's still a dinky town.
It's one of the most desirable and fastest growing towns in the US, it has become a HUGE tourist destination as the self proclaimed "mountain biking capital of the world"
better life than most new cities
$99k is spectacular in AR. It's all relative.
Make no mistake. Bentonville is becoming a nightmare. Increased cost of living, traffic, crime, yada yada.
I didn’t see happy families, just a bunch of Silicon Valley wannabes
Exactly.
That's because it's CNBC and they don't care about happy families. I work for Walmart and moved here to NWA 2 1/2 years ago. It's an amazingly family focused community. There are a lot of the Silicon Valley wannabes as you say and a lot of this sort of promotion is oriented towards these folks. Overall though the community is still full of happy families. It's sad that that isn't a selling point for CNBC to promote.
And if Walmart decides you're not working out? Enjoy Bentonville...lol.
Absolutely not! To live in a Wal-Mart Life Pod AND be in ARKANSAS is a waking nightmare!!
You also have to like living in a huge tourist town, because Bentonville is the biggest tourist destination in Arkansas and probably the biggest in the lower midwest
@mrvwbug4423 OH YIKES! No, thank you.
Hope everyone knows Fayetteville, a much cooler college town that’s actually in the Ozark mountains, is 30 minutes south of Bentonville and much more progressive
Man aint nobody flocking to Arkansas. Yall need to stop
You have no clue about NWA. It's growing at an alarming rate in the space of last 18 months.
@@farzana6676 Some people are calling it little Seattle. The population projection is insane. It's already been ruined.
@Shifty-hb4fv Yeah as long as you keep Democrats out, you won't turn into Seattle. Democrats create Seattle, SF, Oakland, Chicago etc.
I see what you are doing. you are intentionally talking down NW Arkansas to keep people out and keep home/rent prices from rising. Yes, this place sucks. Don't come here.
2:50 36 year old childless dog mom works in the children section and was concerned about "conservative values." Give me a break.
She wants the farmers markets just not the farmers 😂
Are they trying to do to Arkansas like they did to Austin. This is not a good idea
Allowing virtually unlimited sales of residential property to be converted into commercial aka: short-term-rental property has made getting a house there ridiculous since you are competing against commercial property investors just to buy residential. We were planning to move there after our kids finished college, they finished a couple years ago and we may opt out of moving there due to what is currently available for the money.
There's no zoning it seems. There are 6000+ sq ft houses in the middle of neighborhoods that are all 1500sq ft houses. It's bizarre.
While 99K is impressive for the state of AR, it is not the highest, and not much to write home about. The highest or among the highest is Maumelle, a suburb of Little Rock, with a median income of 114K.
What's there, an enclave of governmental apparatchicks?? Uni of AR??
It's also household income. It's not hard for two working age full time earners to pull that in anywhere in the country.
@@nouvelhomme8990 👌👌And for one of the largest corporations to be based there, is nothing short of mediocre.
Who wants to move to Arkansas?
I thought about it.
@@ES-qu1jd , How is that educational, health, infrastructure and crime rate down there? They make North Carolina look smart and up to date and I live in NC.
NWA, lots of people, the rest of the state, nobody.
I do have to drive 15 miles to Pinnacle to find a Target store...no Wells Fargo Bank..BMO..US Bank😢
These are people in management and executive positions so that means the people who’ve been there their whole lives won’t be able to afford it in 2-3 years
It's already too expensive.
We haven't been able to afford it for several years already. I'm from Bentonville, and I had to buy outside of a neighboring town many years ago to be able to still live in the area.
The same thing is happening here in my small town. Those of us who grew up here (and didn't want it to change) can scarcely afford to buy a home. Sure, some things are better (more restaurants and shops), but the traffic is terrible, the schools are beyond flooded, and the hospital can not keep up. The rich get richer without pouring some of that money back into the town to help with these things. Crime has gone up, and drugs have become an even bigger problem.
Drugs (meth) is a bigger issue in the areas with no development.
Is nobody gonna talk about how the realtor is using sales data from 10yrs ago with nothing to compare it with to? Instead of drawing a comparison between the national average over those 10 years compared to that local area? Idk what the actual numbers are but it seems like they were intentionally trying to miss lead people.
@@GNMi79 That bugged me too. The producer/editor should've caught that and did another take. It makes her lose credibility on the topic.
I would never move to Arkansas. Can we talk about how Arkansas is the ONLY state that doesn’t recognize the implied warranty of habitability? That means that landlords in Arkansas are NOT obligated to make any repairs to their property unless there is a violation of local health and safety codes.
This was not what Sam Walton had in mind when he began WalMart. His idea was to benefit the hardworking lower and middle class man and their families with affordable merchandise because that is where he came from. He would never have done what his greedy children have or approved of it. Walmart as we know it will come to an end, they have growing competition especially in grocery.
And you shop at Walmart
@@AlohaBlockchain There are other places that have what you need besides Walmart.
@@daisyle1203 Aldi for the win
@@AlohaBlockchain Corporate shilling gets you nowhere. Aldi exists. Kroger exists. Meijer and local markets exist, and some of us put our money where our mouths are. Hold this L.
@@LiquidDIO If you are okay paying a premium for the same products, good for you. I hope your children are okay with a lower standard of living. I personally am not willing to pay $4 for a Coke at the mom and pop store around the corner from me, especially with their inconvenient hours and lack of selection.
I’m a young American and I’m definitely not flocking to Bentonville, Arkansas.
good, we want to Keep Arkansas Red.
@@Texan1840 NWA hasn't been red in a very long time haha
@@mrvwbug4423 Bentonville and Benton county voted for Trump in 2020. And Governor Huckabee Sanders won Benton county by 63% in 2022. You’re just so wrong 😂😂😂. And like it makes a difference even if bentonville was blue 😂, Arkansas voted for Trump and got 65% of the vote here in 2020.
@@mrvwbug4423 Benton County is red. That's all that matters.
good, we do not want you
It's actually a 'twin city' with Rogers, Arkansas. Did the story even mention that?
Oh you don't mention the poors. Rogers used to be the hub. Bentonville took it away. Everything East of the interstate is pretty low end.
Walmart also has corporate offices in Hoboken, New Jersey and the San Francisco Bay Area. Either one of these is much more preferable than Bentonville if for no other reason than there are greater job opportunities in those places.
Most of the influx to Bentonville is remote workers, not Wal Mart workers. It's become a huge destination for remote workers
“I was afraid it would be too conservative” while enjoying all the amenities provided by the conservatives 😂
“Too conservative” almost like she read a script provided by the interviewer, or maybe she was just pandering.
Bentonville is most decidedly not a conservative town, NWA in general is a blue island in a sea of red.