It looks like yesterday's announcement of Walmart planning to open a store in Jerusalem was premature.
The news media that first reported it, it seems, took it from a misunderstanding somebody had after seeing a posting by Walmart of a list of jobs for a new location in Salem, Illinois, and mistook that for Jerusalem Israel. Adding that to a recent visit by the CEO of Walmart to Israel, and the reporter jumped the gun and figured that a Walmart store is secretly in the works.
source: Jpost
Oh well. It could have been fun to see the Israeli version of "People of Walmart" develop. Maybe at some point in the future this could still happen...
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