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February 2005

Planning Commission Rejects Wal-Mart Expansion

February 27, 2005

When Wal-Mart first came to Warrenton, Virginia to propose a discount store, there were major protests and a court battle against the store. After a

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Wal-Mart “Less Admired” on Fortune List

February 27, 2005

Wal-Mart’s own weight, perhaps, has caused it to slide down the list of Fortune Magazine’s “America’s Most Admired Companies” list. For the past several years,

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Lowe’s Runs Into Buzz Saw Of Opposition

February 27, 2005

One Lowe’s in a community is often one more than enough. A proposed Lowe’s home improvement superstore got clear cut early this month, when the

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Wal-Mart Told To Stop Harassing Its Workers

February 26, 2005

On the same day that Wal-Mart was crowing about an anti-union vote at its store in Loveland, Colorado, just over the border in Quebec, Canadian

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Wal-Mart Expands “Global Procurement Center.”

February 25, 2005

Wal-Mart is addicted to Chinese take-out. The giant retailer is the largest importer of Chinese goods into America, and contributes greatly to our record balance

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34 Homeowners Displaced By Eminent Domain For A Wal-Mart

February 24, 2005

Once again, a home for Wal-Mart is costing local residents their homes. According to KSL TV 5 in Ogden, Utah, city officials are using their

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Wal-Mart Slapped with $75 Million Disability Discrimination Fine

February 24, 2005

As we reported on February 4, 2005, a Wal-Mart employee with cerebral palsy had sued Wal-Mart in 2002 for discrimination against the disabled under the

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Wal-Mart Loses Bite Of the Big Apple

February 24, 2005

Start spreading the news. They’re leaving today. They wanted to be a part of it, New York, New York — but it looks like Wal-Mart

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City Rejects Wal-Mart, Finds Plan All Wet

February 24, 2005

The Zoning Board of Appeals in Nashua, New Hampshire poured cold water last night on Wal-Mart’s hopes to build a supercenter in this community. The

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Wal-Mart Leads to End of Mobile Home Park Across the Street

February 21, 2005

The residents of the Eastwood Mobile Home Park in Whitehall, Ohio are going to have to find a new place to live by August. The

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Residents Sue Over Wal-Mart Development

February 20, 2005

In December, 2004, the Janesville, Wisconsin zoning board of appeals ruled that the town’s plan commission correctly awarded Wal-Mart a conditional-use permit to build a

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Citizen Wal-Mart Puts Building Size Cap on the Ballot

February 20, 2005

When Wal-Mart encounters a zoning law it doesn’t like, it simply dips into its corporate treasury, buys itself a public relations firm, adds some petition

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Wal-Mart Continues Culturally Inappropriate Locations

February 20, 2005

Coming fresh off its successful construction of a discount store hard by the pyramid at Teotihuacan, Mexico, Wal-Mart is continuing its quest to find sacred

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Residents Continue To Resist Wal-Mart Plans

February 20, 2005

Last June, Newsflash reported on an effort to block Wal-Mart in Titusville, Florida. Here’s an update from the front lines received this week: “Titusville residents

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Wal-Mart Request for Tax Breaks Refused.

February 20, 2005

Good news for residents of Pueblo West, Colorado: your community will not become defined as the place “with the Wal-Mart distribution center.” The deal has

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Wal-Mart Lobbies Against State Health Care Law

February 19, 2005

Three Wal-Mart executives flew from Arkansas to Olympia, Washington this week to defend the company’s bottom line from a proposed state law that would make

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Residents Gear Up To Keep Wal-Mart Out of the Cascades

February 19, 2005

Washington state is being assaulted by Wal-Mart supercenters, and the residents in many towns are taking up arms. Here’s a report from the front lines

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Residents Fight Image as ‘Discounter Town’.

February 19, 2005

In many communities across the country, citizens who already have one Wal-Mart store are saying that one Wal-Mart is one more than enough. Another community

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Feds Sue Wal-Mart For Sexual Harassment–Again.

February 19, 2005

Right in the middle of Wal-Mart’s largest public relations campain, the retailer can’t seem to dodge lawsuits from the federal government. First it was child

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State Probes For More Wal-Mart Child Labor Violations

February 19, 2005

State lawmakers in Connecticut, and the state’s Attorney General want to investigate why Wal-Mart was granted a “sweetheart deal” by federal investigators working on cases

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Wal-Mart Appeals Court Decision Limiting Superstores

February 19, 2005

As expected, Wal-Mart has appealed a recent court decision that upheld the city of Turlock’s ban against supercenters. The Good Neighbor company’s decision means that

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City Passes Six Month Moratorium On Big Boxes

February 16, 2005

The people from Lowe’s home improvement center were not pleased, but officials in Olympia, Washington this week passed a six month moratoriium on new big

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Target developer Sues Over Town’s Size Cap Ordinance

February 16, 2005

A Superior Court judge in Georgia has sided with the town of Peachtree City, Georgia (see earlier stories), which has adopted a land use ordinance

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Council Passes Economic Impact Study Ordinance

February 16, 2005

This week another community passed an ordinance that requires big box retailers to provide more information about their impact on the local economy. The Sacremento,

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Wal-Mart Changes Mind, Returns To Town

February 14, 2005

A lot of Wal-Mart opponents in Derry, New Hampshire were disappointed to learn this week that Wal-Mart has decided to try to build a superstore

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State Lawmakers Consider Bill To Tax Big Box Sales

February 13, 2005

On Tuesday, February 15, the state legislature in Montana will consider a bill filed by State Senator Ken Toole entitled the “Progressive Gross Receipts Tax

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Walgreens Loses Big General Motors Contract

February 13, 2005

The Walgreens drug store chain, with more than 4,200 stores nationwide, took a major financial hit this week when auto-maker General Motors Corp announced that

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Why He Will Never Shop At Wal-Mart.

February 12, 2005

Mac McAllister says he is “a certified senior citizen.” He went to Wal Mart for the first time in his life recently. “It was one

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Wal-Mart Breaks Buildings Into Two To Escape County Size Cap

February 12, 2005

Every once in a while, Wal-Mart gets really creative in trying to circumvent local laws that limit big box retailers. In places like Warrenton, Virginia,

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Wal-Mart Fights City Denial In Court Over Word Definitions

February 12, 2005

Wal-Mart, which likes to portray itself as a good neighbor, has taken another city to court for denying the retailer a superstore. In this case,

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Wal-Mart Pulls Out of Deal

February 12, 2005

Residents in Mokena, Illinois were not thrilled with the prospect of a Wal-Mart supercenter, but they were thrilled to learn this week that the giant

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Looks Like Wal-Mart’s Dead.

February 12, 2005

Wal-Mart has given the residents of Cobb County, Georgia an early Valentine’s gift. The giant retailer announced this week that is it abandoning plans to

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Wal-Mart Pays Another Wage & Hour “Settlement”

February 12, 2005

Here’s a case to refer to Wal-Mart’s new Office of Ethics: Is it ethical to use under-age workers to operate dangerous equipment? Is it ethical

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Wal-Mart Shuts Down Store To Avoid Union Hassles

February 9, 2005

Wal-Mart threw a corporate tantrum today, announcing abruptly that it was closing down one of its stores in Quebec because it was getting nowhere with

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Town May Impose Moratorium Before Wal-Mart Files

February 8, 2005

It’s called heading them off at the pass. There is no pass in Ballston, but town officials recognize they have been slow to react to

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Public Subsidy for Wal-Mart Supercenter Denied

February 8, 2005

Wal-Mart asked for public welfare recently in Boonville, Missouri, but came away empty-handed. The retailer had asked the City Council to pay for infrastructure improvements

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Wal-Mart Rezoning Attempt is Rejected by Planners

February 8, 2005

Wal-Mart was “clobbered” this week in Cobb County, Georgia, where the county’s Planning Commission refused to recommend the rezoning of 65 acres of land for

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Neighboring Town Passes Anti-Wal-Mart Resolution

February 8, 2005

The Marysville, California City Council made it clear last night they don’t want a Wal-Mart supercenter in their backyard. The adjacent town of Linda, California

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Wal-Mart Sets Up New Ethics Office & Hotline

February 8, 2005

After 43 years in business, the Wal-Mart corporation has discovered something it calls “ethics.” In the February issue of “Wal-Mart World”, which is an internal

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Disabled Employee Sues Wal-Mart For Discrimination

February 4, 2005

Over the years, Wal-Mart has had a revolving door relationship with the federal Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC), the agency that brings charges of discrimination

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County Refuses to Give Home Depot A Sales Tax Break

February 4, 2005

The city of Sterling, Colorado and the surrounding county of Logan did not see eye-to-eye in a tax break deal for the world’s richest home

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Wal-Mart Gets Second Chance in Pharmacists Overtime Case

February 3, 2005

An appeals courts in Colorado has given Wal-Mart a second chance to explain why it should not have to pay some of its own pharmacists

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