I found this story intriguing, and I didn’t even know you could hire a consultant to do this kind of work;
Alabama-based Retail Strategies community partnerships associate Banks Perry will present to the council on a data-driven approach to attract retailers and developers to Mitchell.
According to Hanson, the Retail Strategies process involves tracking when people from Mitchell and the surrounding areas go and buy something in Sioux Falls at a certain store, and based on that, Retail Strategies calls that store to recruit that store or a competitor store to come to Mitchell.
Good for Mitchell! Not so good for Sux 🙁 Maybe we should hire a consultant to find out what kind of retailers we want to steal from Mitchell – LMFAO!
Can we attract an all nude strip club? How about a gymnasium covered in corn? And who doesn’t miss Happy Chef?
I kind of feel bad for the Mayor of Mitchell on this one, it is actually a GREAT idea, and pretty cheap for consultant fees, so I don’t understand why he is getting so much grief.