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| A Walmart Supercenter -- like this one in China -- is planned for land in Hackensack, where great journalism was practiced for decades. The store will sell hundreds of items, including diapers -- appropriate considering all the shit coming from the editors running the newsroom in an office building overlooking Route 80 in Woodland Park. |
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is moving ahead with plans to build a huge Hackensack store on land owned by North Jersey Media Group, publisher of The Record.
NJMG owns about 20 acres along River Street, where its flagship daily was published for many years before President Stephen A. Borg abandoned the city.
The land will be leased to Wal-Mart, not sold, according to a usually reliable source.
The world's biggest retailer has already started to submit documents to the city for approval of the plan, the source said.
The Hackensack store will be a Walmart Supercenter, like the one in Secaucus. That store is open 24 hours.
Main Street merchants were hurt when The Record moved hundreds of employees out of its landmark building at 150 River St.
Now, they vehemently oppose Wal-Mart's plan.
