CHICAGO - SEPTEMBER 26: Wal-Mart employee Michelle Triplett (L) stocks items in the food area of a new 142,000 square foot Wal-Mart store on September 26, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois the day before it opens on September 27. Chicago's first Wal-Mart is one of twenty-four new stores in the US, creating over 6,200 new jobs opening in the wake of a defeated Chicago wage law that would have set minimum 'living wage' requirements for big box stores. At this west-side store alone, Wal-Mart states that over fifteen thousand people applied for the four hundred and ninety jobs offered. Getty Images logo Getty Images 38 months ago

CHICAGO - SEPTEMBER 26: Wal-Mart employee Michelle Triplett (L) stocks items in the food area of a new 142,000 square foot Wal-Mart store on September 26, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois the day before it opens on September 27. Chicago's first Wal-Mart is one of twenty-four new stores in the US, creating over 6,200 new jobs opening in the wake of a defeated Chicago wage law that would have set minimum 'living wage' requirements for big box stores. At this west-side store alone, Wal-Mart states that over fifteen thousand people applied for the four hundred and ninety jobs offered.

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