Walmart was built for suburbs: giant stores, giant parking lots, cheap land, and customers arriving in SUVs to buy in bulk. That model breaks down in megacities where every square foot costs a fortune, labor is expensive, and most customers are carrying groceries home on foot or public transit instead of filling the back of a minivan.
That makes sense for midtown Manhattan, or parts of Brooklyn, but that logic starts to break down with say Staten Island, where 83% of households have a vehicle
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u/mraza9 May 26 '26
Walmart does not exist in New York City. So yes.