Sunset for Rite Aid
July 31, 1998
Rite Aid must not have the rite stuff. One of the nation’s largest drug (convenience) store chains, Rite Aid has increasingly run into the wrong
July 1998
One vote on the Woolwich Township Council made all the difference in one of the community’s most dev?
July 30, 1998
On March 25, 1998 (see below) we told you about the toywars between the Teletubbies and Wal-Mart’s knock-offs, known as the Bubbly Chubbies. Wal-Mart admitted
In 1989, Alma Hirsch sold a tract of land to the city of Warsaw, Missouri on the condition that the ?
July 30, 1998
Wal-Mart CEO David Glass is cashing in. At least, he’s selling off 200,000 shares of Wal-Mart common stock, worth roughly $9.4 million. That represents about
After waiting a year and a half to have their day in court, the Friends of Placer County (CA) Commun?
July 30, 1998
Myths tend to grow larger the more frequently they are repeated. On January 2nd, CBS Marketwatch reported that “Wal-Mart, the Number 1 private sector job
Wal-Mart Developers Give Up Fight. That’s the headline in the Tri-County Times in Fenton, MI. A spok?
July 29, 1998
Fortune magazine’s Top Ten Billionaire’s Club released this week has 5 Walton family members clustered in a tie at number 4 on the list. Matriarch
Edenton, NC is a coastal community of just under 6,000 people. It describes itself as a “storybook p?
July 20, 1998
The As You Sow Foundation has sent Sprawl-Busters the following account of the group’s activity at the recent Wal-Mart Annual Meeting in Arkansas: “A shareholder
Sam Walton boasted in his autobiography that Wal-Mart had become its own competition, and in discuss?
July 20, 1998
To give you a sense of Wal-Mart’s unprecedented size, consider the following information, based on Fortune magazine’s 500 Biggest Corporations. Wal-Mart had revenues of $287.9
Robert Okesson is handicapped. He drives a car with handicapped plates, and has so for the past ten ?
July 20, 1998
Sometimes we “outgrow” our stores, says Wal-Mart Realty. That’s the retail understatement of the year. It turns out that Wal-Mart changes stores as casually as
Citizens Rally To Save Historic Farm Site.
July 14, 1998
A developer in Glasgow, Delaware has signed a contract to develop the Barczewski farm (also known as the La Grange) to place 232 houses and
Robert Okesson is handicapped. He drives a car with handicapped plates, and has so for the past 10 y?
July 10, 1998
Call them the “working uninsured”. They are the greeters and baggers and stockboys of Wal-Mart, where “full time job” is defined at 28 hours a
“Without an item price, consumers can be systematically ripped off.” That’s the warning from Michiga?
July 7, 1998
The Wal-Mart corporation is like the guy who buys a huge SUV and drives it proudly into his driveway — only to find that the
On page 9 of the Wal-Mart employee’s manual it says: “We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind.?
July 7, 1998
Wal-Mart corporate issued a press release about a month ago, touting its “first-of-its-kind” program that will offer its employees free health coverage for such catastrophic
“Homeowners want to live where they can get full services.” That’s one of the pleas made in a full p?
July 3, 1998
It’s been called the “feminization of poverty.” Many of the low wage jobs in retailing are filled by women. This week, Wal-Mart, under pressure from