A battle in DC over how much Walmart must pay its workers in order to open stores in the city led this author to look at similar conflicts between Walmart and other cities. Who has leverage? The retailer or the cities?
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Walmart has done a good job getting subsidies - public money - from cities to build. Walmart Subsidy Watch has background on all of it.
They report 29 deals in Texas which provided $90.8 million in funding.
