Wal-Mart fails to remove snow from sidewalks at Ga Ave store

On the 7th of January as of 10:30AM, online complaints appeared that the Wal-Mart on Ga Ave had neither shovelled nor salted the sidewalks in front of their store. There was an online complaint from someone who saw an elderly woman nearly slip and fall on the ice. While Wal-Mart gets a pass on this, ordinary DC residents can face fines fines for not clearing sidewalks.

In some residental communities outside the District, similar laws cause some communities to prevent sidewalks from being built. Now it seems Wal-Mart thinks they are an exception to such laws. A full day after the storm, neither the Ga Ave nor the Peabody Street sidewalks on Wal-Mart's side had been cleared.