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Lexington is 320k people, the second biggest city in the state. It's the only major shopping destination for eastern KY. It'll be fine. (I lived for a year in
by stickfigure 2y ago
Lexington is 320k people, the second biggest city in the state. It's the only major shopping destination for eastern KY. It'll be fine.
(I lived for a year in Morehead, drove to Lexington regularly)
- dgatwood 2y agoshrugs Most of the time, all you need is Walmart and Meijer, and you can also find those in Richmond, along with a decent number of other big-box stores and clothing stores and stuff. But yeah, Lexington is definitely a popular shopping destination. Back when my grandparents lived in Richmond, we would go to Lexington for the mall (not the green roof one, the real one), because Richmond's mall was a decaying husk even in the 1990s, before Walmart moved out next to it, Sears went under, etc. I was surprised to see that it is still open, but I digress. For context, Walmart employs about as many people in Lexington's three superstores and one neighborhood market as Lexmark does. Losing 2k jobs in a city of 320k people would not be catastrophic. And most of those jobs probably don't overlap with Xerox's business anyway, so I wouldn't expect that to happen.