印度人不欢迎Wal-Mart

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American retail¹ giant Wal-Mart is even closer to setting up a chain of supermarkets across India in partnership² with Indian mobile phone company Bharti Enterprises, and many people in India are not happy about it. Bharti chairman Sunil Mittal told reporters that they were very close to finalizing³ the deal, and that there were "zero" regulatory hurdles⁴. Small shopkeepers and India's communist party protested a tour of Indian stores by Wal-Mart executives, burning an effigy⁵ dummy⁶ of the company and waving signs that said "Save Small Retailers⁷" and "No FDI in Retail". FDI stands for "Foreign Direct Investment"; according to a representative of the India FDI Watch coalition⁸, "We believe Wal-Mart is going to ruin this country and millions of people will lose their jobs".

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