Chilling bog-box retailer Wal-Mart plans on opening four Neighborhood Market grocery stores in the Bay Area at sites in the South Bay and East Bay. The morally-questionable company will unleash stores in San Jose, Pleasanton, Hayward, and San Ramon. Godspeed, anyone selling food their zones of destruction, for you are doomed.
"The latest Walmart Neighborhood Market slated for the Bay Area is headed for a onetime Safeway store in southwest San Jose at Westgate Mall," Delia Garcia, a spokeswoman for Walmart West, explains to Oakland Tribune, adding that the company will open "Neighborhood Market groceries in Hayward at a onetime Circuit City site, in Pleasanton at a shuttered Nob Hill Market, and in San Ramon in an empty building at Country Club Village Shopping Center."
All together, the four stores "should create about 300 new jobs," with pay going at $12.69 an hour.
