Walmart invades SA
Dec. 5th, 2010 05:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nairiporterSouth Africans left divided as Walmart muscles its way in
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/dec/05/walmart-massmart-south-africa-unions
Walmart, the world's biggest retailer, is poised to enter the African market after bidding £1.6bn for South Africa's Massmart, but the country's trade unions are gearing up for a fight.
A woman stands in her home in the Blikkiesdorp (Afrikaans for 'Tin Town') township near Cape Town. Millions of South Africans are too poor to shop in Walmart, which threatens to further impoverish small-scale farmers, unions say.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/dec/05/walmart-massmart-south-africa-unions
Walmart, the world's biggest retailer, is poised to enter the African market after bidding £1.6bn for South Africa's Massmart, but the country's trade unions are gearing up for a fight.
A woman stands in her home in the Blikkiesdorp (Afrikaans for 'Tin Town') township near Cape Town. Millions of South Africans are too poor to shop in Walmart, which threatens to further impoverish small-scale farmers, unions say.
