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Dancing dragons and Chinese good luck offerings marked the start of construction of Wal-Mart\u2019s Chinatown grocery store on Tuesday over the protests of many in the community. WalMart hosted a press conference inside the empty 33,000-square-foot space soon to be turned into a Walmart Chinatown grocery store on Cesar Chavez and Grand avenues. The store construction has drawn strong opposition from advocacy groups and labor unions that fear Wal-Mart\u2019s presence will stifle local businesses and litter the community with low wage, part-time jobs with inadequate health benefits. For activists, the struggle to stop Wal-Mart Chinatown is an important step in fighting the Multinational\u2019s recent targeting of Los Angeles for its next urban grocery market boom. The Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), which has been fighting the opening of Wal-Mart Chinatown since its announcement earlier this year, found that Wal-Mart aims to grab 21 percent of the grocery market in LA. This would mean the opening of 212 new Wal-Mart stores in the area resulting in an estimated loss of 8,744 retail jobs, $621 million in annual lost wages and an increase of 9,400 employees using Medi-Cal.<\/p>\n