Wal-Mart Wants Property Taxes Lowered.
March 17, 2002
The Wal-Mart corporation brings in $420,471 a minute in sales. So it is somewhat surprising to residents of the little community of Saukville, Wisconsin that
March 2002
Wal-Mart Buys Into Japan
March 16, 2002
Roughly seven years ago, a delegation of Japanese businessmen came to my hometown of Greenfield, MA to learn how we had stopped Wal-Mart. They were
Wal-Mart Owns 14% of food market in U.S.
March 16, 2002
Wal-Mart didn’t get into selling groceries in a big way until 1988, when they started swallowing up market share with their supercenters. Today, according to
Wal-Mart Buys Its Vote Into Town
March 15, 2002
On March 12th, 19,916 voters in Mesa, Arizona voted in favor of Proposition 300 — to approve the city council’s 4- to 3 vote earlier
Wal-Mart Project Withdrawn
March 12, 2002
Residents in north St. Louis County, Missouri were celebrating this week after it was announced in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that a proposed 74 acre
Kmart Closings Offset Wal-Mart Openings
March 11, 2002
The conventional wisdom is that Kmart’s implosion will be to Wal-Mart’s gain. The shutting down of 271 Kmart discount stores and 12 Kmart Supercenters, will
Wal-Mart Gets Socks Blown Off
March 10, 2002
The city of Springboro, Ohio has boxed out stores like Wal-Mart and Meijer’s. According to the Dayton Daily News, officials in Springboro think such stores
IKEA Still Up In the Air
March 10, 2002
Swedish furniture retailer IKEA can’t open its 300,000 s.f. carton yet in the community of East Palo Alto, California. On March 5th, the question of
Voters Give Boot to Home Depot Gorilla
March 8, 2002
On March 5th, voters in Mountain View, California finally got the Home Depot gorilla off their back. The grassroots citizens group which sent Home Depot
Wal-Mart Out Spends Residents on Ballot
March 7, 2002
Our contacts in Calexico, California filed this report regarding their March 5th.election, in which Wal-Mart successfully nullified an existing Calexico zoning ordinance that limited to
No Mall Group Continues Battle Against Lowe’s
March 6, 2002
On November 3, 2001, Newsflash reported on the battle of residents in the city of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to stop the rezoning of an excellent light-industrial
Citizens Reject Home Depot at Ballot Box
March 6, 2002
We reported on 12/26/01 that the battle to stop Home Depot from invading Agoura Hills, California was coming to a head. On the March 5th
Voters Reject Wal-Mart, But Votes Still Counting
March 6, 2002
The Citizens for Preserving Reedley (CPR) are hoping that absentee ballots keep them on top of a ballot question that will keep Wal-Mart out of
Welfare for an “Emergency” Wal-Mart.
March 4, 2002
Merchants in Vinita, Oklahoma report that city officials are so covetous of expanding their Wal-Mart that they are seeking a $50,000 “emergency” grant to help
Wal-Mart, the Nightmare Neighbor
March 4, 2002
Residents in Union County, North Carolina, the state with the 10th. highest number of dead Wal-Mart’s, are fighting a 200,000-square-foot Wal-Mart Supercenter, which has become
Home Depot Branches Out Against Small Firms.
March 4, 2002
Home Depot hopes to make billions of dollars by branching out into a new professional services program in three test markets in partnership with Service
Neighbors Say Kilbuck Wal-Mart’s a Killer
March 2, 2002
Dave Blackson, the chairman of the Kilbuck, Pennsylvania Board of Supervisors thinks a Wal-Mart supercenter is good for the taxpayers of his town. No regional
Home Depot’s Three Year Plus Battle
March 2, 2002
It only seems like an eternity that homeowners in North Miami have been fighting off a Home Depot (see 4/18/00 Newsflash). Home Depot wants to
Two Big Box Ballot Questions March 5
March 2, 2002
Tuesday March 5th. will be a double-header for citizens fighting big box retailers. In Mountain View and Calexico, California, citizens groups have been organizing to