dehradun over 200 members of haridwar vyapar mandal held a protest march from post office crossing to valmiki crossing against the state governments decision to allow the opening of three walmart stores in the hill statethe traders fear that if a walmart store comes up in the city americas biggest retail chain will start dominating the market force prices down and ultimately put them out of businessbesides shopkeepers the protesters also included members of haridwars distributors and retailers association haridwar vyapar mandals general secretary pradeep kalra told toi we are protesting against the state governments decision because the business of small and midsized shops would be trampled if the walmart stores are opened in uttarakhand advt the development comes after the state government gave its nod to opening of three walmart stores in uttarakhand and as per the tentative plan the stores would come up in dehradun haridwar and rudrapur haridwar is visited by people across the country and if a walmart store comes up here people would prefer it more than any other shop as they sell commodities at a relatively lower price and hold a global brand image as well suresh gulati a local shopkeeper told toi he estimated that over 3000 shopkeepers would be hit in hardiwar alone if walmart comes upanother local trader anil tiwari said a walmart store sells almost everything from grocery items to garments and from electronics to cutlery so it will leave no scope for other businessesin the past shopkeepers of dehradun main market have also held protest against the opening of a walmart store in the capital city traders in doon have threatened that if the move is not retracted all traders body would hold statewide protestmeanwhile bharatiya janata partys industry wing head anil goel told toi i support the shoppers and retailers of the state because a walmart store would hit their business and adversely impact selfemployment in the state tnn published on sep 2 2019 at 0829 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app walmart haridwar stores grocery outlets traders body homenewstraders body launch protest against opening of walmart store in haridwar