HELL NO!!! New York don't need no stinkin Walmart

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NEW YORK—Walmart is looking to extend its services into New York City by opening its first store in Brooklyn.

Crain's New York reports that the 630,000-square-foot Gateway II shopping center in Jamaica Bay, Brooklyn could be a potential site for the shopping center.

“We know that New Yorkers want to shop and work at Walmart, and as a result, we continue to evaluate potential opportunities here,” Steven Restivo, Walmart's diretor of community affairs, told Crain's.

The Gateway II shopping center is currently abandoned. Walmart in the past attempted to set up shop in the city but was driven out of town by community groups and unions.

Even though no contract talks are underway, some unions and community activists have said they would protest the opening of the store.

Walmart opponents say that the store will put family owned ma and pop stores out of business and businesses like Duane Reade and Pathmark might lose jobs.

In the past, the retail chain attempted to open in Queens and Staten Island.

"We don't like how they treat workers as it relates to salaries and benefits, and we're not going to have them in our community,” City Council Member Charles Barron (D-Brooklyn) said to Crain's.

“The area cannot sustain a Walmart, a Target and a Bjs,” Pat Purcell, an assistant to the president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1500, told Crain's. “In this area, it's a job killer; it's just the wrong use.”

UFCW 1500 sometime next week plans on holding a protest against the potential move to New York City.




http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/34135/

[BrklynLiberal]

1. I am thirlled that there is no WalMart in NYC and hope it says out!!!

[texastoast]

2. As New Orleans said,

No Sprawl-Mart.

[SocialistLez]

3. I hope Wal-Mart doesn't come to town

SOOOOO many jobs will be lost.

If they do come, I hope it fails miserably.

[brooklynite]

7. NO they won't...

...anymore than when Target or K-Mart came to town (still plenty of hardware, houseware, electronics and clothing stores) or when Olive Garden and Red Lobster opened up (still plenty of Italian and Seafood restaurants). NYC's economy is not the same as rural Nebraska.

[progressoid]

4. Good luck to Brooklyn.

Hope they prevail.

[Raineyb]

5. "We know that New Yorkers want to shop and work at Walmart..." No we fucking don't.

Go away Walmart! We don't want you here.

[rurallib]

6. New Yorkers want to work at Walmart?

who's going to believe that one?