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WAL-MART, Texas – Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. announced this week the grand opening of its largest Supercenter ever constructed over a large area of land in Texas previously home to the city of Lubbock.

The new store encompasses an impressive 135 square miles in northern Texas, offering one-time Lubbock inhabitants a brand new, state of the art facility for value shopping.

Lubbock’s former residents, many of whom have taken up shelter in the new Supercenter’s 34-acre home and garden department, are mostly welcoming of the savings the value-price store brings to their lifestyles.

“It’s nice to have a little extra money in the wallet,” said former Temple Ave. resident Gary Mitchelson. “And it’s open 24 hours so you never have to leave, which is convenient.”

Other ex-townspeople are more critical of the Supercenter’s effect on the once-existent city of 212,000.

“I think this Wal-Mart store is terrible,” said Karen Mishler, former law professor at Texas Tech University, “for a community that has such a rich culture and hometown feel to it. Now, not only are local businesses and institutions hurt financially, but they actually have been demolished.”

Wal-Mart is familiar with criticisms and opposition when new stores are built, but the company maintains its way of doing business saves people money, creates new jobs and actually improves communities.

“The people of Lubbock will no longer need homes, jobs, or schools,” said Wal-Mart spokesperson Patrick Handegan. “With the money they will save, education and careers are not necessary. As for their homes, our seven square-mile sporting goods section features more than 50 varieties of tents and awnings.”

Handegan added that as has been Wal-Mart’s policy for years, anyone will be welcome to park their overnight vehicles in the new store’s 12 square-mile parking lot.

Plans are also underway for an adjacent Sam’s Club to the Supercenter’s south that would encompass the nearby towns of Posey, Woodrow and Union. If given final approval by Wal-Mart’s board of directors, the added Sam’s Club would by estimations be the first bulk-purchase price club visible from space.