Many New Yorkers despise Walmart because the corporation has an established track record of sucking the lifeblood out of communities across America. With Walmart eying the Gateway II shopping center Brooklyn, opposition to the chain has come to a boil in NYC, and the City Council will be holding hearings tomorrow on the retail Godzilla's possible impact on Brooklyn. But could a white knight with giant lizard-slaying lasers be appearing on the horizon? Crain's reports that ShopRite is also interested in the 100,000-square-foot property. Sure, it's no artisanal, locally-sourced organic farmers' market selling fair-trade goji berries, but could it be a good alternative? more ›

The Brooklyn Navy Yard wall (which the NY Post confusingly refers to as Brooklyn's version of the Berlin Wall) is coming down... well, at least enough of it to make way for the new ShopRite! Sigh. more ›

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When you name your baby Hitler—or, in this case, Adolf Hitler Campbell—perhaps you are stacking the deck against him. A NJ family is upset that ShopRite refused to personalize a cake with "Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler." The boy's father, Heath Campbell, a "Nazi fan" (his other kids are JoyceLynn Aryan Nation and Honszlyn Hinler Jeannie) and Holocaust denier who decorates his home with swastikas, told reporters yesterday, "There's a new president and he says it's time for a change. Well, then it's time for a change. They need to accept a name. A name's a name. The kid isn't going to grow up and do what [Hitler] did." ShopRite offered to write "Happy Birthday" with room for the Campbells to inscribe it themselves, but the outraged family took their business to Wal-Mart, which apparently supplied little Adolf's earlier cakes. For levity: Top 10 rejected names for Adolf Hitler Campbell ("9. Dahmer Amin Stalin Telemarketer Campbell"). more ›