Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Wal-Marts in New York City? It's Looking Less and Less Likely

At least for now, it looks like Wal-Mart is deescalating its push to break into New York City's retail market. Although the big-box chain has reaffirmed its commitment to exploring opportunities to open up stores in the city, it seems clear that the company is tampering down the capacity of its cam ... More >>

Sen. Schumer to Walmart: Please Stop Selling Assault Weapons

This seems like a move ripped right out of Bowling For Columbine.   As Vice President Joe Biden and his team of gun control policy thinkers finish up their legislative package this week, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York has taken measures into his hand. According to the Daily News, the po ... More >>

Brooklyn Finds Out A Walmart is Not Coming Anytime Soon

There's a Target up in Harlem and on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. And there's an IKEA in Red Hook. And a K-Mart on Astor Place in the Village. But, somehow, New York City has maintained an immunity to the nation's largest employer, clocking in at 1.2 million employees, Walmart.Plans were in the work ... More >>

Bill de Blasio Creates Another Website To Tackle a Not Very Local Issue

Public Advocate and mayoral hopeful Bill de Blasio has gotten some headlines recently about his campaign against car companies that do business with Iran. In March, he created the website IranWatchList.com, designed to target companies that work with Iran and in some cases allegedly sell directly ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg Says It's Not His Job to Stop Wal-Mart -- Despite Mexican Bribery Scandal

Mayor Mike Bloomberg doesn't necessarily support Wal-Mart -- he just supports government staying out of the corporation's way. The business-friendly mayor commented today on Walmart's campaign to open a store in New York City, a day after the New York Times exposed a $24 million bribery scheme -- a ... More >>

Ruben Diaz Sr. Calls Black Friday a 'Blessing'

Now that state Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. has officially lost the fight against gay marriage in New York, he's on to the next thing: Walmart. Diaz released a statement regarding Walmart's absence in NYC in light of this past weekend's strong Black Friday sales. In short: sucks about the pepper spraying and ... More >>

Tom Cruise and Baby Suri Embarrassed? This is Scientology, So Someone Has To Pay

Credit: Vanity FairSuri Cruise, with her Scientologist parents​In recent weeks here at the Voice, we've described the Church of Scientology's programs aimed at investigating perceived enemies, who have included former high-ranking Scientology executives, a man trying to bring to market a clean ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo's Walmart Runs Are Annoying the Union

​Like anyone who's recently moved, Governor Cuomo has been doing a lot of shopping (for the Executive Mansion, in his case), spending "about $300 in recent months" reports the Daily News. State workers have been sent to Albany-area Walmarts for supplies for Cuomo's official abode. This is to k ... More >>

Don't Get Too Worked Up About This New 'Walmartization of NYC' Study

​A new study came out today from a labor-backed nonprofit called Alliance For a Greater New York (Align), and it presents a kind of doomsday scenario in which Walmart could open a whopping 159 stores in New York City. According to the study, if Walmart entered the NYC market this way, it could ... More >>

NYC Residents On Track to Spend $215 Million This Year At Area Walmarts

​Despite its claims to the contrary, Walmart has been trying to infiltrate New York City for some time now. The mega-chain even has a Walmart New York City website and has donated large sums to city programs. Their spin has always been that New Yorkers really want a Walmart, and maybe they're ... More >>

Walmart Goes After New York Locavores

Your friendly neighborhood Walmart​ You may want to check your mailbox (the snail one) for the latest effort by Walmart to butter up New Yorkers into letting the massive chain set up shop here. Now that it has Michelle Obama proclaiming its expansion into "food deserts" part of the country's h ... More >>

Little Italy Replaces Greeters with Suave 'Maitre Ds'; Menu Calorie Counts Can't Be Trusted

​It appears that Little Italy is trading in its pushy greeters in favor of "outside maitre d's": suave young gentlemen who attract lady tourists with their eyes. [NY Post] The Hurt Locker star Anthony Mackie's new Bed-Stuy bar NoBar welcomed stars like Samuel L. Jackson and Sam Rockwell at it ... More >>

Wal-Mart Bribes NYC With $4 Million Donation

​Bloomberg referred to Wal-Mart as "one of the great corporate citizens in this country" during a press conference yesterday to announce the company's four million dollar donation to New York City's Youth Employment Program. The donation will create 3,400 jobs, and Bloomberg says that's all th ... More >>

Woman Mad at the Whole Internet for Being an Asshole

A woman has taken to the local news in an attempt to avenge her mother's being photographed at a local Walmart and added to the educational People of Walmart Internet fashion blog, which showcases the street-wise stylings of the people who visit Walmarts among our good nation so that they might be m ... More >>

Walmart New York City Has a Website

​Have you seen this? Apparently Walmart, who is making a very public push win hearts and minds in New York City, launched a new website today at WalmartNYC.com. Splayed across the very top is the above graphic, right under the tagline "Helping NYC Save Money and Live Better." Oh, really?

Lima Limon Brings a Citrusy Addition to Little Latin America

True new Peru to chew

A & P Files for Bankruptcy; 'The Next Great Kosher Chef' Rocks Long Island City

​A roundup of nogs and glöggs includes Baltimore Eggnog at Millesime and spicy Indonesian-accented glögg at Aquavit. [NY Post] The troubled supermarket chain A& P has filed for Chapter 11. The company has struggled since buying Pathmark in 2007 for $679 million. [NY Times] Wal-Mart, which ... More >>

The Union Square Holiday Market's Edible Delights

Hansel and Gretel Would Approve​ Now that Thanksgiving is officially over, it's time to start holiday shopping, and what better place for gifts than at the Union Square Holiday Market. Yes, it's just as crowded as Wal-Mart come five a.m. on Black Friday, but hey, at least the snacking options ... More >>

Protestors Tell Wal-Mart to "FUHGEDDABOUD" Coming to NYC

​Protesters of all kinds gathered at City Hall today against the prospect of Wal-Mart parking its corporate, labor-discriminating ass in the city. A Wal-Mart in New York City? "Fuhgeddaboudit!" they proclaimed.

Dear Wal-Mart: Please Stay Away from New York City, and Take Your Snakes with You

​Recently we learned that Wal-Mart might be making a surreptitious attempt to invade the borders of our fine boroughs. And though the convenience superstore ultimately denied (for now) that they're moving in on Brooklyn, we still don't trust them. They've been up to no good before. And before ... More >>

According to Wal-Mart, These Are the New Yorkers Who Want a Wal-Mart

​On yesterday's rumors that Wal-Mart was yet again trying to move in on the five boroughs -- and Wal-Mart's subsequent denial -- there appeared a curious bit of language in the statements issued by The Big Blue Box. Specifically, the bit about New Yorkers who want Wal-Mart -- a crushing force ... More >>

Wal-Mart Denies Attempting to Invade Brooklyn on the DL, But Says New Yorkers Want Them Here

​Wal-Mart thinks they're wanted by New Yorkers. Wal-Mart's also denying a rumor that they're coming to New Yorkers, for now. The idea of Wal-Mart coming to New York is pissing off New Yorkers to the point of preemptive protest.

Jersey Teen Arrested for Racist WalMart Announcement

​A 16-year-old boy who police say used the courtesy phone at a Jersey Walmart to announce "Attention, Walmart customers: All black people, leave the store now." has been arrested and charged with harassment and bias intimidation, according to local officials who spoke to the AP. Gloucester Cou ... More >>

Westbury Wal-Mart evacuated for christmas tree fire

Happily, we avoided post-Thanksgiving Wal-Mart deaths on Long Island this year, but we did get a fire. According to Newsday, 2,000 shoppers and employees were evacuated from the WalMart on Old Country Road in Westbury today after a worker discovered christmas wrapping and ornaments stored in the g ... More >>

Mickey D's Making Customers Happy & The Latest Food Safety Scare? Cantaloupes!

Grilling enthusiasts need not skimp on the steak this summer. Bargain cuts include hanger, flatiron, flank, flap, tri-tip, skirt, chuck eye, chuck shoulder and top sirloin. So, what's the key to the perfect steak? Patience: let it sit before you put it on the grill and after. [Washington Post] A po ... More >>

Little Hitlers Leave Home

Little Adolf Hilter Campbell, 3, who became famous when anti-Nazi prejudice forced his family to go to Wal-Mart to get his birthday cake inscribed, has been removed from his parents' home by New Jersey Family Service, as have his sisters, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, 1, and 10-month-old Honszlyn ... More >>

Lynn Yaeger Gives Wal-Mart Its Lumps (of Coal)

Musto's Year in Review

The year in pictures—pictures of me!

One More Reason Not to Shop at Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart Death: Don't Mourn, Organize

Early Black Friday Reports Mixed: "Rowdy," Hopeful, Lethal

Sarah Palin, Welcome to New York! -- Lynn Yaeger

A Former Charles Schumer Aide Tries to Upend State Senate Vet Marty Connor

A veteran progressive legislator faces the Schumer steamroller

Hillary Ran From Me

Warning: Check for the Union Label

Czech Dream

'Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price'

Ongoing

When the Levees Broke

Hurricane Katrina unravels the threads of a fragile New Orleans society

The New Movement Against Wal-Mart

Fresh blood joins the battle to keep the mega-retailer out of NYC

Union Gap

At AFL-CIO, a splitting issue for the nation's biggest labor organizations

'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'

Dance

Horoscope

Monkeys and Marijuana Sweaters

Seeing It on Mulberry Street

Attention, Wal-Mart Voters

Lost Jobs and Military Funerals Haunt Bush in the Heartland

God Goes Goth

50,000 Tears Under the Sea

Cheap Shot

‘The Position’

Weekly Webzine From the Museum of Sex

Wal-Mart’s First Lady

Hillary’s Past Belies Her Support of Labor