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March 2002

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

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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

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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

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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

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Wal-Mart Project Withdrawn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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Recent Posts

CHRISTIAN SMALLS, FIRED AMZN WAREHOUSE WORKER, FILES RACE DISCRIMATION LAWSUIT. …

November 16, 2020

DUE TO THE SURGE IN CORONA CASES, WMT IS LIMITING SHOPPERS TO 5 PER 1,000 SF. A…

November 16, 2020

AMAZON RECENTLY ANNOUNCED FREE 1 HOUR GROCERY PICK UP FOR PRIME MEMBER ORDERS &g…

November 15, 2020

AFTER BEING REJECTED BY THE DEERFIELD, MA PLANNING BOARD, DOLLAR GENERAL APPEALS…

November 15, 2020

WILL TRUMP ALLOW ORACLE & WALMART TO INVEST IN TIK TOK? The deadline to ban …

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AMAZON ACCUSED OF BREAKING ANTITRUST RULES IN EUROPE. “Data of 3rd-party sellers…

November 14, 2020

WALMART PET CARE NOW SELLING PET INSURANCE. My 3 year old mixed breed cat would …

November 13, 2020

WALMART’S GOING TO THE DOGS. 90 M OF ITS CUSTOMERS HAVE DOGS. You’d be Goofy not…

November 13, 2020

WALMART CASHIERS STILL LOOKING FOR A SEAT. They won a $65 M lawsuit in 2019, but…

November 12, 2020

4 DAYS BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION,THE CO-FOUNDER OF HOME DEPOT SAID: “Pres…

November 12, 2020

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Al Norman 16 hours ago

WALMART worker tells U.S. Senate: “This month, WMT did it again, approving a $20 B share repurchase program, while keeping the starting wage at $11/hr.” Shareholders first, workers last. https://t.co/PEsEZMOcu0

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Al Norman 16 hours ago

IF EACH of the 7 heirs of Sam Walton committed to investing up front $10 B ($1 B/year x 10 years) into a wage fund for WMT workers, 2.2 M workers could get a $2hr wage hike for a decade, & the Waltons would still retain $177 B net worth today, + any growth in stock value. https://t.co/0DyIlo5EiG

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Al Norman 2 days ago

“40 Million s.f. of additional warehouse space will be needed in the next 5 years” in Canada. “Retailers are rushing to build logistics hubs to fulfill orders...Every retailer knows they have to have a digital presence to survive.” We need to cap the size of this sprawl now! https://t.co/d4BTb4p1TI

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