Homeowners Have Kept Wal-Mart Out For Three Years.
I visited Henderson, Kentucky in October of 2000 to help local residents fight off a Wal-Mart supercenter right in the middle of a residential community.
I visited Henderson, Kentucky in October of 2000 to help local residents fight off a Wal-Mart supercenter right in the middle of a residential community.
Black Friday is an important day for retailers. That’s the day after Thanksgiving, when most retailers start to show a profit, ending months of red
Home Depot is having a little house-keeping problem of its own. According to the Napa Sentinel, the Home Depot in Napa, California has been fined
Despite widespread evidence in Canada that Wal-Mart stores get their sales mostly from existing merchants, some communities continue to allow them in. Since early October,
In Turlock, California, the city’s Planning Commission on November 20th. voted 5-0 to place a ban on certain large discount stores, which would impact a
Residents in a mobile home park in St. Petersburg, Florida happen to think where they live is more important than one more Wal-Mart supercenter. Sprawl-Busters
Citizens in Arvada, Colorado are fighting their own public officials, who are paving the way for a Wal-Mart with millions of dollars in corporate welfare.
Activists belonging to the Progressive Student Association at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas are organizing a rally to demand the reform of Wal-Mart’s
It seems there’s no rest from sprawl in the small oasis of Travelers Rest, South Carolina, now that the Arkansas Traveler has shown up. Here’s
Residents in Bithlo, Florida report that “Wal-mart is seeking to change our Future Land Use map to build a new super center 3.2 miles from
A string of studies across the nation has uncovered the ugly truth about workers at big box stores like Wal-Mart: they often get their health
The New York Times is reporting that nine “illegal” alien workers who were busted by the Feds while cleaning up after Wal-Mart shoppers, are now
Residents in the small community of Salmon Arm, British Columbia feel like they are swimming upstream in their fight against Wal-Mart Canada. How else to
Home Depot has run into new problems in New Jersey, as a second community in recent weeks has turned them away. The Asbury Park Press
In a major legal setback to Wal-Mart, on November 2nd, Dakota County, Minnesota district judge Thomas Lacy ruled that a class-action lawsuit filed by four
At the ballot box on November 4th, residents in Lakeway, Texas pushed big box retailers into the Lake. Sprawl-busters in the group Lakeway First issued
According to WLOX TV in Biloxi, Mississippi, the city council in Biloxi on October 28th. refused for a second time a Wal-Mart rezoning proposal. Even
The strategies written here were produced by Sprawl-Busters in 2006 at the request of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), mainly for citizen groups that were fighting Walmart. But the tips for fighting unwanted development apply to any project—whether its fighting Dollar General, an Amazon warehouse, or a Home Depot.
Big projects, or small, these BATTLEMART TIPS will help you better understand what you are up against, and how to win your battle.