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February 26, 2007

Wal-Mart tries new strategy in Chicago

  • Wal-Mart insists it can help both businesses and residents in this community where the unemployment rate is in double digits and 15,000 applied for 400 jobs.
    • By DON BABWIN
    Associated Press Writer

    CHICAGO — Baggy clothes and Mexican CDs line the aisles. Catfish bait and automobile decorations sit on the shelves. A local restaurant serves up fried chicken near the checkout stands.

    After blanketing rural America, Wal-Mart is pushing into big cities with a new strategy: catering to local shoppers — in this case, black and Hispanic customers in a West Side Chicago neighborhood — while making efforts to help other local businesses survive.


     
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