Last year, opponents of Wal-Mart -- including neighborhood, labor and small-business groups -- helped persuade a real estate developer to drop one of the company?s stores from a planned mall in Queens. In August, opponents again helped thwart plans for a Wal-Mart at the southern tip of Staten Island. Now, the Bronx has emerged as the latest battleground over attempts by Wal-Mart to open its first store in New York City. Leaders of the anti-Wal-Mart campaign have been forming alliances with Bronx community groups and politicians as well as holding town hall meetings to plan their attack and energize their ranks.
See "Opponents Try to Lock Up the Bronx Before Wal-Mart Knocks on the Door", Manny Fernandez, The New York Times, November 9, 2006