Wal Mart moves to corner Mid East specialty food market
Filed Under (Business) by Don C on 17-03-2008
Heh, looks like I called it right on the Wal-Mart Muslim connection.
Managers say they seek peace with the neighborhood’s merchants — and vow not to undercut them on Middle Eastern specialties. But some experts and observers say Wal-Mart’s well-planned launch in Dearborn is bound to shake up the buying and selling in a community that has long supported its own. Southeastern Michigan is home to an estimated 300,000 people who trace their roots to the Middle East.
And another 30,000 who don’t have any roots to trace.
Not that there is anything wrong with catering to niche customers in niche markets, but I just knew Wal-Mart must have a Muslim sensitive operation going on to cave to some kind of demand from CAIR to pull all advertising from The Savage Nation.
