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Supermarket News: "Wal-Mart denies interest in reported Manhattan sites"

Mar 06, 2009

Despite Supermarket News reporting this morning that Wal-Mart has declined interest in the Circut City and Virgin Megastore sites, Wal-Mart did acknowledge their continued interest in the “Jewel” of retail, New York City.

Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union President Stuart Applebaum called the move opportunistic:
“We don’t need Wal-Mart to take a advantage of an economic crisis to sneak into New York and drive down standards and wages,” he said.

He’s right, the last thing this city needs is for Wal-Mart to continue to take advantage of the recission. Reports have surfaced in the past few weeks of their strategy to take advantage of the recession in order to “sneak” into cities, they’ve done so in Chicago and now California.

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Gothamist: “Reverend Billy to send Wal-Mart back to lake of hellfire“

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Wal-Mart still not good for NYC

Dec 24, 2008

A study released yesterday by the non-profit Fiscal Policy Institute shows that retail is the industry sector that employs the biggest chunk of the 1.3 million low-wage workers in this city — that is, workers earning less than $13 per hour. Nearly half of these 176,000 low-wage retail workers earn less than $10 an hour, and the majority lack health insurance. 

This re-affirms our belief that Wal-Mart’s business ethics and practices are not good for our city. There is more to life than cheap underwear.

Happy Holidays everyone.