Dive summary:
- On Wednesday, Walmart Stores announced the opening of 24 new physical stores across the U.S. amid some local protests from Union and community member members.
- A rally has held outside Pleasanton, California which included a broad range of attendees from labor groups to political and community members, according to reports from Supermarket News.
- Half of the retailer’s Neighborhood Market stores which were opened on Wednesday are located in California.
From the article:
According to a spokesman for the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, the rally included "a broad coalition of concerned community, labor and political groups," in order to "highlight the vast number of abuses perpetrated by Wal-Mart on the communities in which they locate."
