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Megaretailer Walmart recently announced six new Chicago locations, and plans for even more expansion by 2015. There's currently one store in the city on the 4600 block of west North Avenue, and it wasn't too long ago that political bickering over a second proposed location led to Mayor Daley's veto of a living wage ordinance that would've gotten store employees at least $10/hour to start (they wound up with $8.75 instead.
Coming to you live each week from Carter's Barbershop in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood, The Barbershops Show is your weekly dose of real talk, straight from the shop floor. No punches are pulled and no topic is considered off-topic. Hosted by the Chicago Reporter's very own Alden Loury and Kimbriell Kelly.
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