A Queens neighborhood has put out a willkommenmat for a German-based non-union supermarket that pays wages comparable to Walmart.
ALDI will open its deeply discounted supermarket stocked with company-brand $1.79 jars of marinara sauce and $1.59 cereal in a bustling Queens mall where advocates had previously chased away a Walmart.
But there’s been little talk about the store quietly opening in Rego Park Friday or the 40 non-union workers hired.
Walmart had eyed that mall in 2005, but Vornado Realty ultimately scrapped plans because of fierce criticism from elected officials and labor leaders.
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