New America NYC: Walmart vs. New York

What if you’re the world’s biggest grocery store and you’ve made it everywhere except New York City? Walmart says it wants to help urbanites— including New Yorkers—to “Save money, live better” with its infamously low prices, even getting support from First Lady Michelle Obama. But not everyone is buying it, most notably workers and unions who fear a reduction in wages. Join us for a conversation on the good and bad the company has to offer with leading thinkers on business, food and the local economy.

Copies of “The American Way of Eating” will be available for purchase at the event.

FEATURING

BARRY C. LYNN

Director of the Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Initiative
New America Foundation

TRACIE MCMILLAN

Author of “The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields, and the Dinner Table”

DANIEL MASSEY

Reporter covering the New York economy for Crain’s New York

Participants