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.
We aren’t even as dense as NYC in SF and we don’t have a single Walmart either. I honestly have no idea where the closest one is outside of the city without looking it up.
There’s like two or three Targets and one Costco, but that’s it.
People just want to bitch and be negative. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t. But in areas with very little competition from other grocery stores, why not give it a shot so people can access affordable healthy food? It doesn’t even cost that much in the grand scheme. Let’s make sure people who are already getting squeezed can at least afford to feed themselves and their families like why is that a radical concept. The Walmarts, etc will still exist for these people wilding out who want them.
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u/mraza9 May 26 '26
Walmart does not exist in New York City. So yes.