When A Walmart Comes To Town
Hwa Gyung Seo
Ha-Cha Stationery, 947 Pennsylvania Ave.
Hwa Gyung Seo has been in business for 30 years with her husband at this location, selling candy, stationery, greeting cards and lottery tickets. “It’s all down,” she said. “My small business is dead.” The first wave of big box stores to the Gateway Mall didn’t help. And adding a Walmart would be “no good for the neighborhood.”