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White House facilitates Walmart’s urban expansion
Walmart is among a group of retailers who further aligned themselves with a key Obama administration initiative this week by committing to open more than 1,500 stores in urban and rural markets defined as food deserts. The initiative is part of the Obama administration’s Let’s Move! campaign designed to address the nation’s weight problem by improving access to fresh foods.
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Walmart will open between 275 and 300 stores in food deserts by 2016.
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