Dear Editor:

I too shop at Walmart (I live just blocks from the Paramount store built on the site of the old Rosecrans Drive-In) when I need those “now” essentials - but that store has always been a mess. 

When I need something more, I too have gone to the store on South St. west of the old Douglas Aircraft site, or I go to the one at the Cerritos Town Center - both stores are much more pleasant to shop in.

As to being “...promised a Nordstrom’s, and getting a Walmart...”: How can you reasonably expect a relatively up-market retailer like Nordstrom’s to locate here when we don’t even meet the demographic standards required of a Trader Joe’s? That was always a fool’s dream.

And for those who continually harp on “Wally-World”, and the people who shop there: Stop being such snobs!

Remember, all of us, at any time, can be reduced in station by unknown circumstances.
“There but for the Grace of God go I!”

Drew Kelley
Downey