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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Letters to the Editor

Chicago Walmart closures show retailer failed to keep community involved: Letters

Empty shelves remain on April 16 at the Walmart Supercenter in Chatham at 8431 S Stewart Ave,. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

Communication is vitally important when serving a minority community in retail, but it was sadly lacking as described in a recent article about Walmart closing four of its Chicago stores.

When Dominick’s Finer Foods opened its first store in the Black community in the late 1980s, a committee of four small business owners and Dominick’s president and COO met monthly for two years, and quarterly from that point forward.

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