Inside Walmart's slow, quiet campaign to crack New York City

This week, following a report in the Times on a bribery scandal in Mexico involving Walmart, the mayor weighed in in favor of Walmart’s right to come to New York, the governor took a pass on the question, and several Democratic office-seekers, mindful of the strong opposition to Walmart by organized labor, weighed in, strongly, against.

Before this renewed debate, Walmart had been out of the news in New York for a while, more or less since late 2010, when the retailer announced plans to open up a store in East New York, and the City Council decided to hold a hearing about it. (They ultimately had to push the meeting to January 2011 because they needed a location bigger than the council chambers after seeing how many union members and others planned to flood the room.)

It almost seemed as if Walmart’s long-held pursuit of a New York location had been put on ice.

But they’ve actually been campaigning here, quietly, the whole time.

Read more and view the slideshow of how Walmart has tried to win over NYC.

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