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With seven days left until Mayor Vince Gray must make a decision about the living wage bill, the Washington Post reports that the deal for a New York Avenue Walmart store has fallen through.

The Post’s Jonathan O’Connell reports that a deal between land owners Andrew, Dave and Jerry Schaeffer and developer Rick Walker “to build a shopping center anchored by Wal-Mart” isn’t happening anymore for unspecified reasons. Walker told the Post he will “try to restructure the arrangement.”

That means five Walmart stores are planned for D.C.

Meanwhile, Wal-Mart is ramping up its rhetoric against the Large Retailer Accountability Act – which would raise the minimum wage from $8.25 an hour to $12.50 for employees of large retailers – sending an email to reporters this morning with the subject line, “Living wage bill = U.S.S.R.”

Wal-Mart spokesman Steven Restivo was citing an interview with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in which he compared a living wage bill to communist Russia.