
With Wal-Mart retail marks return to N.O. East
http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/home/9428768-172/with-wal-mart-retail-marks-return As he left the boarded-up and battened-down New Orleans East store on the Saturday before Hurricane Katrina, Wal-Mart greeter Byron Mercier expected to return in just a few days. “I remember the manager and the co-manager locking the last door right before the storm. I said, ‘I’ll see you back on Wednesday,’ ” Mercier recalled almost a decade later. “That Wednesday (has) finally arrived.”