Kmart BlueLights Cartoons: Always?
August 31, 2001
Shove over, George Jetson. Make room for the new Kmart “animated characters” called “the BlueLights” as part of their national advertising campaign promoting reduced prices
August 2001
Home Depot’s Glass Basement, Again
August 29, 2001
In September of 1997, Home Depot announced that a Federal District Judge in New Orleans had approved a settlement in a massive gender discrimination lawsuit
“Exceptional Benefits” of Wal-Mart?
August 28, 2001
Wal-Mart must think residents of Longmont, Colorado have a short memory. It wasn’t too long ago that Wal-Mart built a discount store in Longmont —
Costco Destroys Historic Site
August 22, 2001
Citizens in Cuernavaca, Mexico have organized to stop Costco from ruining a historic piece of property known as The Casino de la Selva, the Casino
Wal-Mart’s Battle of New Orleans
August 19, 2001
Local activists in historic New Orleans, a city which is a treasure trove of urban history and culture, are gearing up for the latest Battle
More Closings. This time Ames.
August 18, 2001
First it was Bradlees, then Montgomery Wards, and now Ames. Ames Department Stores of Rocky Hill, Conneccticut, a company which calls itself “the largest regional
Wal-Mart Settles Below Cost Pricing
August 15, 2001
Wal-Mart agreed this week to pay $15,000 to settle a case of below cost pricing brought against it by 5 stores in West Bend, Wisconsin.
Home Depot Departs Over Subsidies
August 15, 2001
“Home Depot drops plan”. That’s the headline out of St. Paul Minnesota this week. The St.Paul Pioneer Press reports that the city’s efforts to bring
Home Depot Wants School Land
August 12, 2001
Beware of School Committees that try to become real estate brokers. In Jackson, Michigan, residents are wishing that their School Board would spend more time
Judge Rules In Favor Of City Ordinance Capping Building Size.
August 11, 2001
A Superior Court Judge in Stanislaus County has affirmed a size cap ordinance in the city of Turlock that officials used to stop a Wal-Mart
Home Depot Nixes Sweatshop Resolution
August 8, 2001
Talk about slow election results, it took Home Depot more than two months to report the results of its May 30th. stockholder’s annual meeting. According
Wal-Mart Pulls Placer County Plug
August 8, 2001
According to Dale Smith, who has been fighting Wal-Mart and Home Depot in his hometown of Auburn, California, one battle with Wal-Mart is over. Here’s
Wal-Mart’s Option Runs Out.
August 5, 2001
Sprawl-Busters in West Virginia emailed the following victory account from the front lines: “Wal-Mart suffers defeat in Morgantown, W.V.! The company, which already has one
Wal-Mart Wants 2nd Store
August 5, 2001
A sprawl-buster correspondent in Hood River, Oregon writes that Wal-Mart is trying to hoodwink her Oregon community into replacing the existing Wal-Mart with a larger,