Posted Feb 28, 2012, 7:28 PM
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http://www.observer.com/2012/02/hate...ted-residents/
Hate Mail: Anti-Walmart Group Sends Postcards Slamming Steve Ross to All 7,200 Related Residents
By Matt Chaban
Feb 12, 2012
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While Walmart refuses to say if, when or where it might finally open a store within the five boroughs, one of its favored sites is the Related Company’s Gateway Center Mall in the far reaches of Brooklyn. The area is economically depressed, meaning the cheap jobs and cheap merchandise are (theoretically) desirable. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union sees Walmart jobs as junk, and they have been campaigning against the store since it resurfaced two years ago.
Today, they made things personal, not just with Steve Ross, Related’s founder and CEO, but also his more than 7,200 tenants in the New York area. The union and its Walmart Free New York campaign put together a postcard urging residents in Relatated’s 26 developments across the city to contact the company and say they do not support a Walmart in the city........... Even in liberal Manhattan, it seems hard to believe anyone would move because a big box store might open up on the opposite side of the city.
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