The civil rights leader Andrew Young, who was hired by Wal-Mart to improve its public image, resigned from that post last night after telling an African-American newspaper that Jewish, Arab and Korean shop owners had "ripped off" urban communities for years, "selling us stale bread, and bad meat and wilted vegetables." In the interview, Mr. Young said that Wal-Mart "should" displace mom-and-pop stores in urban neighborhoods.
See "Wal-Mart Image-Builder Resigns", Michael Barbaro and Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, August 17, 2006