Unanimous NO for Wal-Mart.
November 28, 1998
There will not be a Wal-Mart superstore on 54th. Avenue S in St.Petersburg — at least not if the city’s Planning Commission has anything to
November 1998
Wal-Mart Negligent in Slip & Fall
November 24, 1998
Shortly before 1 AM on December 6, 1996, Francis Mack, 44, of Allentown was shopping at the Wal-Mart store in Whitehall, PA. Big mistake. Mack
Mayor Disavows Wal-Mart
November 24, 1998
The Mayor of Clermont, Florida is aggressively lobbying area residents on behalf of Wal-Mart — the only trouble is — he doesn’t know it! Reportedly
Brain-injured at Wal-Mart.
November 22, 1998
October 15, 1994 should have been a normal day for Sherry Wright and her family. Instead, a shopping trip to Wal-Mart altered her life forever.
Wal-Mart’s Lying Doesn’t Help.
November 21, 1998
Despite the fact that there are already Wal-Mart stores in nearby Massena, Ogdensburg, and Watertown, NY, the retail giant from Arkansas has apparently targeted the
A Fax from Sam.
November 20, 1998
Louis Kilgo, a former truck driver from Charlotte, is $2.2 million richer today, thanks to the folks at Sam’s Club. In 1991, Kilgo stepped out
Shed No Tears.
November 20, 1998
You can’t really feel too bad for the people in Warr Acres. As the saying goes: those who fail to understand history, are doomed to
Wal-Mart’s Molester.
November 20, 1998
Wal-Mart doesn’t run TV ads about it — and you won’t hear it mentioned on Paul Harvey, but crime at big box stores like Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart “Not Acceptable”.
November 20, 1998
More than 200 residents of Edmond, OK told planning officials on Nov. 16th. that they don’t want a 200,000 s.f. Wal-Mart supercenter in the middle
Target Pulls Some Strings
November 17, 1998
Target has deadlines to meet! The Minnesota based Wal-Mart clone is in a BIG rush to build a store in Northfield. As one local newspaper
Judge Rules Town Skipped Environmental Review In Wal-Mart Case
November 15, 1998
A Judge in Genesee County, New York has handed Wal-Mart opponents a major victory in their on-going battle against a superstore in Batavia, New York.
Tales from Wal-Mart Purgatory
November 15, 1998
Here’s another in occasional tales from Wal-Mart Purgatory. Georgia Ann Smith was shopping at a Wal-Mart store in Springfield, MO. She was looking to buy
Wal-Mart Parking Lot Nightmare
November 15, 1998
Here’s a story you won’t see in Wal-Mart’s Annual Report. It comes from an Arkansas court case in May of 1998. At approximately 9:30 pm
Wal-Math, Voo-Doo Economics
November 14, 1998
Wal-Math is not taught in your local school system. It’s a form of mathematics employed by developers and big box retailers who want to impress
Target’s Electoral Politics.
November 11, 1998
It’s become commonplace for big retailers to create local “astro-turf” citizen’s groups, designed to look and sound like “grass-roots”, but be entirely financed and directed
Home Depot Spends Big on Ballot.
November 11, 1998
When citizens groups go up against companies like Home Depot on an election ballot, one thing they can expect with certainty: the company will spend
CVS Turns Away Poor People.
November 11, 1998
CVS, the convenience store chain that boasts it has “listened to customers and operated stores to meet their needs,” apparently draws the line when it
Home Depot’s Content Problem.
November 8, 1998
Special Notice to All Home Depot Suppliers: The company is having an on-going problem identifying the content of its merchandise, and kindly requests that manufacturers
A New Use for Rite Aids.
November 6, 1998
Susan Schulman, a reporter for the Buffalo News, has written a news piece that suggests a new use for those Rite Aid stores that have
Lost American Jobs.
November 1, 1998
The American apparel industry has literally lost its shirt over the past several decades, as the industry, once concentrated in the United States, has had
The Moveable Wal-Mart
November 1, 1998
Now you see it, now you don’t. Wal-Mart has perfected the art of playing one community off of its neighbors (see the Lake Placid entry