This time around, many city leaders either declined interview requests or did not return requests for comment on Jet’s growth plans in New York. “Walmart may think they have found a new, under-the-radar path into New York City by buying up businesses already here, but we should not be fooled,” Comptroller Scott M. Stringer said in a statement. But since then, some activists say, their concerns about labor and the broader economy have moved beyond Walmart. Maritza Silva-Farrell, executive director of the labor and community group Align, worked to sink Walmart’s plans to open a store in the East New York section of Brooklyn. But Amazon, she said, is becoming “a world threat” as the company increasingly dictates the global supply chain and broadens into manufacturing.

Source: New York Times September 16, 2018 18:45 UTC