Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to hold a farmers market on Saturday at the vacant site where it wants to build its second city store as it steps up pressure on the city to allow it to expand.WVON is broadcasting from a farmer's market at the site of the proposed Wal-Mart? Oh dear, there is an outright push to get this store built!
The truckloads of fresh fruits and vegetables, supplied by Wal-Mart vendors, are slated to be for sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and radio station WVON-AM 1690 will be broadcasting from the event, according to Wal-Mart.
The move is the latest salvo in the world's largest retailer's five-year battle to build a supercenter store, a format that sells groceries, in the Chatham neighborhood on the city's South Side.
As the jobless rate rose this spring, Wal-Mart resurrected its lobbying campaign in City Hall pitching the 400 jobs it would bring to the city's South Side.
Dispatches from Chicago's south side.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Wal-Mart to hold farmers market at South Side site
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