Capital New York

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Walmart has stores surrounding New York City, but none inside the city limits. In that, New York is the only of the country's ten most populous cities not to have a Walmart; the only other major city in the Northeast that doesn't have one is Boston. The latest cities to get their first Walmart are Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles; it's part of a push Walmart is making to enter major American cities, where previously exurban and then suburban locations had been the norm.

Using a statistic promulgated by the City Council that 3 million New Yorkers do not have adequate access to affordable groceries, Walmart pulls quotes from a lobbyist for the grocery-workers' union ("You don't ever want to bring the bargain into the neighborhood") and from an anonymous New York-based supermarket-chain C.E.O. ("I keep my prices high and my overhead low.")

This flyer touts Walmart's efforts to fight hunger, including donating 1.1 billion pounds of food to the hungry (food worth $1.75 billion, which pound for pound is certainly a reasonable price!) as well as $250 million in grants to fund hunger-fighting efforts.

On the reverse of the flyer is a form to fill out if you want to join Walmart's New York City Community Action Network.

Checkboxes along the left volunteer responders to attend meetings to show support for Walmart, "write a letter to the local newspaper or City officials," or even "attend a pro-Walmart rally."

The back of this mailer shows a smaller Polaroid-style photo of the carpenter and a pen, sitting on top of a letter that reads:

To the Special Interests Trying to Block Walmart—

If Walmart wants to come to New York City, let them. I know you have your own political agenda. But it shouldn't prevent hard working people from putting food on the table. That's not right.

This mailer focuses on Walmart's efforts to reduce its own footprint and to bring sustainable products to market.