>The critique of the eminent domain by the likes you just mention amounts to
>the latter days Luddism - knee-jerk opposition to capitalist innovation on
>the grounds that it hurts "the people."
You call it knee-jerk opposition. Black Commentator finds related questions complicated enough to merit a five part series, Part 4 of which concentrates on Wal Mart and the inner city:
http://www.blackcommentator.com/91/91_cover_cities.html