Home Town America
Fights Back
No matter what the logo on the building says
- Amazon, Wal-Mart, Dollar General Home Depot, Target, Lowe's -
if it's unwanted development, Sprawl-Busters can help you stop it.
Who We Are
About
Sprawl-Busters
Sprawl-Busters Consultants help local community coalitions on-site to design and implement successful campaigns against megastores and other undesirable large-scale developments.
In hundreds of communities, we have helped citizens groups strategize and carry out a plan to stop the superstores.
Keeping You Up To Date
Breaking News
WMT “is increasingly following Amazon’s lead.” The retailer had its “15th straight quarter of double-digit e-commerce growth,” after it was slow to create an online marketplace imitating AMZN. WMT owes a big debt to Jeff Bezos for lighting the way. https://t.co/deOCCLFZ3U https://t.co/yXL37byf0a
Read MoreNEXT TO LAST “Leadership Principles” at AMZN: “: Strive to be Earth’s Best Employer: create a… more just work environment…have fun at work, and make it easy for others to have fun.” AMZN workers are not having fun at Earth’s Worst union negotiator. https://t.co/UB2E1rYpay https://t.co/vy3QydtBz5
Read More300 AMZN employees in New York City are being pink-slipped due to increased-spending on AI and “over-hiring during the COVID pandemic.” “We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today.” Technology kills human jobs. https://t.co/GHwocSwWHc https://t.co/oPMozLLjdC
Read More“Home Depot captured an average of 28% of the home improvement sales in 2025, while Lowe’s followed with 17% of the market, and AMZN had about 11% of sales. That’s 56% of the market. Tough for Tru Value & ACE chains being outsold by the top 3 giants. https://t.co/yTW5vsYp92 https://t.co/m3gJQu1eRU
Read MoreAbout Al Norman
Fighting Big Box Sprawl Since 1993
Al Norman achieved national attention in October of 1993 when he successfully stopped Wal-Mart from locating in his hometown of Greenfield, Massachusetts. Since then he has appeared on 60 Minutes, and gained widespread media attention from the Wall Street Journal to Fortune magazine. Al has traveled throughout the U.S. helping dozens of local coalitions. 60 Minutes called Al “the guru of the anti-Wal-Mart movement.”
Beating Big Box Stores
Community Victories
Sprawl-Busters compiled the list below of 456 communities, over the period 1995 to 2018, which have beaten a big box store at least once, or pressured a developer to withdraw. In some cases a big box store came back a second time, moved to another location in the town, or otherwise gotten in. But every city or town on this list defeated a store at least once. There are many big box victories we never hear about. To read more, click on any town. Not all towns have a linked story.
How We Can Help
Protecting Main Street From Megastores and Fulfillment Warehouses
Sprawl-Busters Consultants help local community coalitions on-site to design and implement successful campaigns against megastores and other undesirable large-scale developments.
Strategic Planning
Developing the basic coalition infrastructure necessary to conduct a coordinated campaign.
Field Operations
On-site assistance with the daily logistics of conducting a grass-roots and media campaign.
Electoral Campaigns
Help with campaigns that involve referendums, town meeting votes, exit polls, and more.
Special
Events
Every campaign needs pyrotechnics. We’ll help you attract the media with our reputation.
Tech
Support
Follow-up support by phone, includng special data searches, strategic responses, and more.
Your Quality of Life
is Worth More than a
Cheap Pair of Underwear
If a warehouse or big box store is causing you a big problem, call on Sprawl-Busters! Local visits can be arranged. Contact us for more information.