WalMart In New York? Chain Tries Again For NYC Store

NEW YORK — Wal-Mart is again trying to open stores in New York City after failing twice because of community opposition, tweaking its message and its strategy.

Steven Restivo, a spokesman for the Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc., told The New York Times in its online edition Sunday that the retailer is looking at sites throughout the city.

"There is a business case to be made for our growth in large cities across the country," Restivo said. "We know we have customers there, and we know we want to make access to our brand more convenient."

The company is looking at parcels in all five boroughs, including some far smaller than what it typically seeks for its stores, he said.

Restivo said the company could help with the city's unemployment problems, and is focusing its real estate search on low-income neighborhoods where there is a lack of access to fresh food.

One of those neighborhoods could be the East New York section of Brooklyn.

Arturo Payambs, the owner of a Compare Supermarkets, told The New York Daily News in Sunday editions that he didn't like the idea of the retailer moving into his local market.

"It's like David and Goliath... We're just a small business. We cannot compare with the prices," the 28-year-old Payambs said.

State Assemblyman Darryl C. Towns, whose Brooklyn district covers East New York, told the Times that a lot of his constituents are looking for jobs.

"We have to begin to think out of the box and look at some different opportunities," he said.

Wal-Mart is taking measured steps, including hiring Mayor Michael Bloomberg's former campaign manager to oversee its lobbying efforts. Bloomberg had previously supported the company's failed effort to redevelop a Bronx site into a commercial complex.

The City Council had scheduled a meeting to discuss Wal-Mart's efforts for Tuesday, but the interest forced officials to reschedule for January.

Attempts by Wal-Mart to develop stores in the city have been successfully blocked by opposition from labor unions, community groups and elected officials.

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Time frames may be different based on secular trends, weather phenomenon, innovations in health care, and government intervention, but generally, what goes around, comes around.? For example, economic booms and busts occurred, on average, every 14 years for 2,000 years.?Beginning in the late 20th?century, they began cycling every seven years as a direct result of government efforts to stimulate economic activity during recessionary downturns.? While they occur more frequently, they’re cycles nonetheless.

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During subsequent reformulations of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, laggards were replaced with other leaders of the time.? They included Pfizer, Verizon, Bank of America, Cisco, and AIG.? As a group, these stocks have been shellacked since they joined the Dow 30, but along the way they have continued to make a lot of money for anyone who purchased shares when stock prices were excessively low.? Many have tripled off of lows in 2003 and 2009.

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