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June 1998

Home Depot has problems siting stores even in its home state of Georgia. This week the Alpharetta, G?

June 30, 1998

As of February 1, 2002, Wal-Mart had 3,190 stores in the United States, including discount stores, supercenters, warehouse clubs, and neighborhood markets. But that’s not

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You say you got a great deal on a Tommy Hilfiger T-shirt from the Wal-Mart cyberstore on the internet?

June 30, 1998

You say you got a great deal on a Tommy Hilfiger T-shirt from the Wal-Mart cyberstore on the internet? Hold on, shoppers. Those Hilfiger socks

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“We’re not just opposing a Wal-Mart, we’re in the process of preventing the destruction of the commu?

June 29, 1998

According to the Catholic News Service, church groups that hold stock in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. are pushing once again for the company to revamp its

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In July of 1995, I spoke to a crowd of citizens who were fighting a proposed mall next to a developm?

June 29, 1998

The media this week carried stories of how the “poor” heirs of Sam Walton had fallen from Forbes magazine’s list of the 10 richest people

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Paul Del Vecchio, a 45 year old carpenter from Niskayuna, NY, settled a personal injury lawsuit with?

June 21, 1998

Slumping sales at big box retailers, including negative “same store sales” growth at Home Depot, have emboldened companies like Wal-Mart and Home Depot to try

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Terri Saunders (not her real name), a Wal-Mart employee, was forcefully and brutally raped by her Wa?

June 21, 1998

Only Uncle Sam employs more people in America than Mr.Sam. Wal-Mart now boasts that by next year at this time it will have one million

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“When they don’t want you, they don’t want you.” That was the succinct comment from Home Depot’s sit?

June 21, 1998

A cashier working at Wal-Mart for $7.50 an hour should not ask for a raise. She should ask instead to be put on the Wal-Mart

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“For once, let us have some say as to what gets built in our neighborhood,” pleaded Menomonee Falls,?

June 21, 1998

This week, Wal-Mart President and CEO Mike Duke told the Arkansas Morning News, “We have a lot to be thankful for this year.” Compared to

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Home Depot is washed out in Waukesha. A Waukesha County Circuit Judge has upheld a decision by the W?

June 21, 1998

Much of the debate over health care costs at Wal-Mart have focused on younger workers and their families. But what about those workers who actually

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“For once, let us have some say as to what gets built in our neighborhood,”

June 21, 1998

“For once, let us have some say as to what gets built in our neighborhood,” pleaded Menomonee Falls, WI resident Mike Rusnak, testifying against plans

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Home Depot is washed out in Waukesha

June 21, 1998

Home Depot is washed out in Waukesha. A Waukesha County Circuit Judge has upheld a decision by the Waukesha Board of Zoning Appeals that rejected

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CVS, the Rhode Island based convenience store chain, with more than $15 billion in revenue and 4,100?

June 13, 1998

Here’s a Wal-Mart factoid for you: According to the Wal-Mart Associate Handbook “a full-time associate is one who regularly works at least 28 hours per

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Leave it to Rite Aid to try and pave over Paradise. But that’s exactly what got the citizens of Para?

June 3, 1998

You are what you tweet. And blog. And post. It’s part of your social genome. According to a statement from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, he

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The newspaper headline sums it up: “Judge: Town is right; Rite Aid is wrong.” Citizens in the tiny t?

June 2, 1998

If there is a teaching moment for economic injustice — Wal-Mart is it. This enormous corporation has been built upon the backs of the 99%

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