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September 2004

City Council Unanimously Opposes Wal-Mart Supercenter.

September 29, 2004

The City Council in Saline, Michigan voted unanimously last week to oppose a Wal-Mart supercenter. There’s just one small problem, a matter of geography. The

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Residents Organize to Fight Wal-Mart in Overton Park Project.

September 28, 2004

The Overton Park residential/commercial redevelopment project in Lubbock, Texas has been described as “the nation’s largest privately-funded revitalization project”, and residents in Lubbock were distressed

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Local Property Owners Continue Court Battle to Stop Wal-Mart

September 28, 2004

It’s getting harder and harder to build those Wal-Mart supercenters. Consider the case of Urbana, Illinois. We first wrote about Urbana in January, 2004, when

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Residents Want Size Limits on Big Box Stores.

September 28, 2004

A group in Toronto, Canada, called the Davenport-Shaw Resident’s Association (DSRA) has written to all the Mayoral candidates in the city, outlining a 10 point

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Wal-Mart Bumps Into More Opposition to Annexation

September 27, 2004

Almost everywhere Wal-Mart wants to go these days, the good corporate citizens run into people who don’t want a thing to do with them. Here’s

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Wal-Mart Readies to Destroy 200 Year Old Farm

September 25, 2004

The “old barns and pastoral fields” of Lacey, New Jersey, are on the endangered list, as another Wal-Mart superstore bears down on a 200 year

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Wal-Mart Defending Another Racial Discrimination Lawsuit

September 24, 2004

The timing couldn’t have been worse for Wal-Mart. The country’s dominant retailer was drawing negative headlines across the country once again for racial discrimination in

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Wal-Mart Buys Newspaper Ads to Repair Damaged Image

September 23, 2004

Instead of advertising its everyday low prices, and instead of giving its workers a raise, the Wal-Mart corporation has chosen instead to spend hundreds of

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Governor Bush Rejects Wal-Mart Plans

September 22, 2004

Wal-Mart has run out of running room in Jacksonville, Florida. Residents on the southside of the city have handed Wal-Mart another defeat — but this

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Home Depot Uses Federal Subsidies to Locate Workers.

September 21, 2004

Home Depot over the past several years has hired the elderly and veterans to feed its expanding empire, as it displaces smaller competitors, while getting

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Home Depot Uses Federal Subsidies to Recruit Workers.

September 21, 2004

Home Depot over the past several years has hired the elderly and veterans to feed its expanding empire, as it displaces smaller competitors, while getting

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Wal-Mart’s “Gift” To Neighbors: Raw Sewage.

September 20, 2004

This story stinks, literally. Giant retail stores make lousy neighbors. Local officials can talk all they want about buffers, and berms and setbacks, but the

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Wal-Mart Runs Into More Illegal Worker Troubles.

September 19, 2004

Construction at a Wal-Mart supercenter in Sweetwater, Texas suddenly came to a halt this past week when it was discovered that one of Wal-Mart’s contractors

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Residents Pleased That Wal-Mart’s Not Coming

September 19, 2004

After a year’s worth of rumors that Wal-Mart was coming, a sigh of relief greeted the news this week that the city of Crystal River,

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Schwarzenegger Vetoes Economic Impact Bill

September 19, 2004

As expected, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on September 18th terminated a bill that would have made big box retailers pay for economic impact studies of

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Y. Poor People Are Letting Wal-Mart Down.

September 18, 2004

According to an article posted on TheStreet.com, poor people are dampening our country’s economic recovery because they’re not spending as much as needed to keep

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Residents Upset by Wal-Mart Plans.

September 18, 2004

Residents in Hermantown, Minnesota have an armload of concerns about a proposed Wal-Mart supercenter, and have formed a new group to protect their interests. The

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Wal-Mart Defends Its Construction Near Ancient Pyramids

September 18, 2004

Angry protestors who have written to Wal-Mart in opposition to their construction of a superstore near the ancient pyramids at Teotihuacan, Mexico, 18 miles from

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‘All Wal-Mart Stores Are Going To Be Smaller’

September 18, 2004

A planner from a small town in Michigan says that Wal-Mart is “reining in” the size of its superstores, and turning to smaller, more cost-efficient

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Jury Awards Family $570,000 In Death of 3 Year Old At Home Depot

September 18, 2004

The Associated Press reported this week that a death at Home Depot in 2000 has resulted in a second company having to pay the family

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Wal-Mart Opponents Issue Statement On Victory.

September 18, 2004

Thrilled residents of Denver, Colorado who helped push a Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market out of their Elitch Gardens community, say they are now excited about the

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Wal-Mart Loses The Beer Pricing Comparison

September 16, 2004

Some residents of Great Britain have conducted an informal pricing survey involving Wal-Mart and its competitors that they say surprised them. Here’s their account of

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Residents Organizing to Keep Wal-Mart Out of Area

September 16, 2004

Residents in Three Rivers, Michigan are on high alert, now that a Wal-Mart superstore proposal has surfaced in their midst. Here’s a report from the

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Neighbors Not Happy With Home Depot.

September 15, 2004

It’s one thing to shop at Home Depot. It’s quite another to be their neighbor. Residents in Massena, New York, are learning that having Home

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Wal-Mart Pulls Out of Elitch Gardens Plan

September 15, 2004

Residents on the north side of Denver, Colorado were thrilled to hear the news this week that Wal-Mart is shutting down plans to build a

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Another Wal-Mart Proposal Draws Fire

September 15, 2004

Submit a Wal-Mart plan to local officials, and then stand back. That seems to be the reality facing the giant retailer these days. Dozens of

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Both Sides Unhappy With Preliminary Wal-Mart Approval

September 11, 2004

It took six hours, but at 1 pm, under cover of darkness, the Planning Commmission in American Canyon, California narrowly voted (3-2) to approve a

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Residents Considering Legal Challenge to Wal-Mart Supercenter

September 11, 2004

The Rosemead, California City Council ended nearly 10 months of controversy this week by voting to approve a Wal-Mart supercenter in this city of 53,000

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Both Sides Unhappy With Preliminary Wal-Mart Approval

September 11, 2004

It took six hours, but at 1 pm, under cover of darkness, the Planning Commmission in American Canyon, California narrowly voted (3-2) to approve a

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Wal-Mart To Try A Second Time To Get Approval.

September 11, 2004

If at first you don’t succeed — try the other side of town. Residents in Middletown, Deleware beat off a Wal-Mart store two years ago

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Wal-Mart Compared To Rat In Hole

September 11, 2004

The best citizen’s quote of the month in a Wal-Mart protest comes from Deptford, New Jersey, where dozens of protesters braved rainy weather to picket

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Unionized Wal-Mart Upheld By Labor Board

September 11, 2004

The Globe & Mail reports this week from Montreal that the Labor Board in Quebec has rejected Wal-Mart’s challenge to the unionization of its workers

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Wal-Mart May Seek To Settle Illegal Cleaning Workers Case

September 11, 2004

It was reported this week that Wal-Mart is trying to put behind it one of its more embarassing legal problems — the use of illegal

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Court Hears Citizen Lawsuit Against Wal-Mart

September 11, 2004

We have been following the case of Florence, South Carolina since February of 2003. In the lastest turn of events, a lawyer representing citizens has

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Citizen’s Likely to Challenge Wal-Mart OK In Court.

September 9, 2004

The City Council in Desoto, Texas apparently had its mind made up, and didn’t want to be confused by the facts. The Council this week

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Wal-Mart Admits Message “Failure” in Media

September 9, 2004

According to today’s New York Times, Wal-Mart has admitted to a “management failure” by neglecting to get its side of the company’s story out to

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Citizens Take Wal-Mart & Town To Court

September 7, 2004

The course of development never did run smooth — at least, for Wal-Mart that’s increasingly the case. What used to be a cut-and-dried three month

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Residents Challenge Wal-Mart Plans in Court

September 7, 2004

Yet another Wal-Mart project is heading to court, not to a ribbon-cutting. Citizens in Westbrook, Maine, have taken the world’s largest retailer to court, fighting

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City Enacts Six Month Moratorium On Big Boxes

September 7, 2004

All it took was the shadow of a 150,000 s.f. Wal-Mart to kick the small town of Gunnison, Colorado into high gear. The Denver Post

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Wal-Mart Vs. The Place Where Men Become Gods.

September 6, 2004

Residents in the Mexican community of Teotihuacan, outside of Mexico City, are desperately trying to keep Wal-Mart from affecting an important cultural icon in their

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Wal-Mart Sued by University Over Land Deal.

September 3, 2004

Add one more lawsuit to Wal-Mart’s impressive legal wardrobe. The Gloucester County Times in southern New Jersey reports today that Rowan University is suing developers

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Wal-Mart Superstore Gets Cold Response in Village.

September 3, 2004

Mokena, IL. Fresh from defeat in Chicago, Wal-Mart has more problems in Illinois. Local residents in the village of Mokena, Illinois this week didn’t warm

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Wal-Mart Plan Goes After $42 Million In Corporate Welfare

September 2, 2004

Wal-Mart’s plans to build a superstore on 240 acres of land in Mesa Grande, Arizona was greeting this week with grand gestures of ridicule. The

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Major Newspaper Calls Wal-Mart A Predator

September 2, 2004

One of the major newspapers in North Carolina has editorialized against Wal-Mart as a hypocritical, predator company. In an August 27th editorial titled “Actions Speak

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Lowe’s Goes After Welfare for Distribution Center

September 2, 2004

They all do it. All the retail giants try to sock local taxpayers for whatever tax incentives they can get. Why should Lowe’s be any

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