It's your bed Clovis, lie in it

            

Retail on Clovis's version of Shaw Avenue is going through some troubles:  Big-ass empty buildings.  Closures of businesses like Vons, Albertsons and Walgreens have left voids that nobody can seem to fill.

The thing is, there's nothing that can fill them because fucking Wal-Mart is on The Avenue.  Sprawl-Mart Wal-Mart is why those businesses are closed and is why you can't fill the empty buildings, Clovis.  Let the Evil Empire into your neighborhood and eventually this is what happens.  Good luck with that planned North Clovis one, and good luck to the Vons, Save Mart and Walgreens there.

And btw Clovis, nobody is buying your "The Avenue" moniker for Shaw, so knock it off.