In sum, we will sit on the sidelines for now and will wait for a better entry point as Wal-Mart undergoes the...transition.

The realignment has resulted in 33 percent of WMT district managers being reassigned or facing early retirement as the company attempts to narrow its leadership gaps in the field. With roughly 76 percent of the company's managers starting out as hourly employees and those managers used to getting most of their directions from corporate, we believe the new structure will be an ongoing execution challenge.

We need to finish this parking lot, so we can start landscaping. We feel the parking lot also will enhance the neighborhood. We have a young woman who wants to have her wedding here, but she is afraid to get her shoes in the dirt and sand.

We have opened up the search, the position actually closes on April 4, so after that, we will have all the information and we will start evaluating. Hopefully, if things go the way that they're supposed to go, the week after that we should start at least the first round of phone interviews. And then we'll try to narrow it down to the top four or five, bring them in possibly the week after that (for face-to-face interviews).

I'm sure if they do conduct it they will find everything the town has done has been above board and out in the open,

The bottom line: Taxpayers will pay about the same.