A hotly contested Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market had its soft opening Friday in Chinatown, where it was met by some of the protesters who have fought its arrival for more than a year.
The store, located on the ground floor of the Grand Plaza building at Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard and Grand Avenue, is Wal-Mart’s seventh outpost in Los Angeles and its first location downtown.
The 34,000-square-foot market is a fifth the size of a standard Wal-Mart super-center and is meant to serve the Chinatown, downtown, Bunker Hill and Echo Park neighborhoods, according to the Bentonville, Ark., retail giant.
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