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A hotly contested Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market opened Friday in Chinatown, where it was met by some of the protesters who have fought its arrival for more than a year.
The store, on the ground floor of the Grand Plaza building at Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard and Grand Avenue, is Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s seventh location in Los Angeles and its first downtown.
The 34,000-square-foot market is a fifth the size of a standard Wal-Mart super-center and is meant to serve Chinatown, downtown, Bunker Hill and Echo Park, according to the Bentonville, Ark., retail giant.
The store opens in a space that Wal-Mart said has been vacant for...