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August 2005

Planning Board Rejects Wal-Mart’s Faux “Village” Look

August 31, 2005

Wal-Mart lost its first key vote in Conover, North Carolina, when the Planning Board this week voted 6-4 against rezoning of land for a supercenter,

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People Hit Wal-Mart Worse Than Hurricane

August 31, 2005

It took an Act of God in New Orleans, Louisiana to do what neighborhood activists tried to do to Wal-Mart: shut it down. Reports out

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Wal-Mart Sues City Over Rejection

August 30, 2005

Wal-Mart’s founder was very clear that if a community did not want a Wal-Mart for whatever reason, he did not want his company to go

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Local Resident Willing To Stand In Front of Wal-Mart Bulldozers

August 30, 2005

The City Council in Austin, Minnesota ignored their local businesses and voted instead to rezone land for the world’s largest retailer. It’s not as if

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Citizens Take Lowe’s To Court

August 30, 2005

Lowe’s may be improving home improvement, but residents in Sonora, California see the giant retailer’s proposed 112,000 s.f. store as no improvement at all to

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Home Depot Left Thirsting for Water

August 29, 2005

Home Depot has been hung out to dry, thanks to local activists in Lacey, New Jersey. If the giant retailer thought it was going to

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Anti-Wal-Mart Flags Hoisted High Over Township

August 29, 2005

The rain and a muddy farm field couldn’t keep Wal-Mart opponents away on August 27th, when anti-Wal-Mart banners were raised high over Portsmouth, Michigan, next

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There Is Life After Wal-Mart Is Defeated.

August 29, 2005

Just about a year ago, Sprawl-Busters wrote that Wal-Mart was giving up the battle in Mission, Kansas. On August, 28, 2004, we wrote, “Wal-Mart is

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Hunter College Report Says Wal-Mart Is An Economic Trojan Horse

August 26, 2005

A report released this past week by the Hunter College Center for Community Planning & Development, and the New York City Public Advocate, concludes that

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Human Rights Commission Says Wal-Mart At Pyramids Illegal

August 26, 2005

Mexican activist Jaime Lagunez reports to Sprawl-Busters that Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission has declared the construction of Wal Mart at the Teotihuacan pyramid site

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Mayor Denies It’s Wal-Mart

August 24, 2005

All it takes these days is the hot breath of a Wal-Mart to get a community up in arms. In Mill Creek, Washington, reports are

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City Chooses A Park Instead Of A Wal-Mart

August 23, 2005

Chalk up the 7th. Wal-Mart defeat just in the past two weeks. The Gainesville City Commission voted 4-3 this week not to trade the 32

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Wal-Mart Plans Distribution Center, Thanks Schwarzenegger.

August 23, 2005

To help feed its hopes for a superstore empire in California,Wal-Mart has announced this week that it is proposing a regional distribution center in Merced,

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We Do Not Like You, Sam I Am.

August 20, 2005

Citizens in the village of Grafton, Wisconsin did a little retail research, and after visiting a Costco Warehouse Club, decided they wanted a Costco in

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Alleged Shoplifter Dies In Wal-Mart Parking Lot.

August 20, 2005

Stacy Driver, 30, of Cleveland, Ohio, a master carpenter and the father of a two year old son, died on Sunday, August 7th. from a

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City Council Passes Big Box Health Insurance Ordinance

August 20, 2005

This week the New York, New York City Council passed, on a vote of 46-1, a city ordinance that requires stores that sell groceries to

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Wal-Mart Loses In Unanimous Decision

August 20, 2005

The final word will not be in until September, but this week Wal-Mart lost its first crucial vote in Avondale, Arizona. The Southwest Valley Republic

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Overflow Of Anti-Wal-Mart Residents Forces Hearing Delay

August 19, 2005

Too many anti-Wal-Mart people showed up this week at the Harrisburg, North Carolina Town Hall. The overflow crowd of more than 120 people forced the

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Wal-Mart Disappears From Plan

August 18, 2005

The incredible vanishing Wal-Mart is gone from Independence Township, Michigan, leaving not even a shadow behind. After citizens gained national attention on Sprawl-Busters for proposing

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Residents Upset With Wal-Mart Plans, Despite Moss Color

August 18, 2005

Avondale, Arizona already has a Wal-Mart supercenter, but as in hundreds of other communities, the retailer is willing to cannibalize its existing stores to put

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Traffic Issues Kill Wal-Mart Plans

August 17, 2005

In a press release dated August 17th, the City of Gresham, Oregon’s Community and Economic Development Department announced that the city has rejected a proposal

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Wal-Mart Promises Bavarian-Looking Wal-Mart

August 17, 2005

The Saginaw News reported on August 15th that officials in Frankenmuth, Michigan, which celebrates its Bavarian heritage as a theme throughout the community, are being

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State Hits Wal-Mart With $1.15 Million Environmental Fine

August 16, 2005

Connecticut’s Attorney General this week blamed Wal-Mart for showing “a pattern of national disregard” for environmental laws, and said the company’s environmental lawbreaking was a

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Opponents Work to Stop Wal-Mart Bank

August 15, 2005

Here’s something you can take to the bank: the banking industry in America will suffer if the world’s largest retailer is allowed to cross the

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Wal-Mart, Lowe’s, Home Depot, BJs Fined for Environmental Pollution

August 15, 2005

Four major big box chain stores in Massachusetts have been fined by the state’s Department of Environmental Protection for violating air quality and hazardous waste

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Wal-Mart Accepts Another Defeat

August 12, 2005

On June 16, 2005, Sprawl-Busters reported that the Environmental Development Commission in St. Petersburg, Florida had voted 5-2 to reject Wal-Mart’s application for a special

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Wal-Mart’s Dog & Pony Show Gets Sent To the Dogs

August 11, 2005

It definitely wasn’t the kind of reception that Wal-Mart wanted. The corporation lined up three venues this week in the community of Livonia, Michigan to

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Traffic Congestion Puts Wal-Mart Plan In Jeopardy

August 10, 2005

Traffic tie-ups have tied up Wal-Mart’s plans to build a supercenter in Gresham, Oregon. City officials released a report recently that warned a superstore could

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Wal-Mart Uses Computer Program To Lower Workers’ Hours If Sales Drop

August 10, 2005

According to a confidential Wal-Mart training memo for managers, the giant retailer instructs store managers to decrease the hours of its workers if sales projections

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Five Years After Wal-Mart Came To Town

August 9, 2005

Sprawl-Busters reported on October 25, 2000, that Wal-Mart wanted to shut down its existing discount store in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and build a supercenter nearby.

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Residents Organizing to Stop Wal-Mart

August 8, 2005

Once again, Wal-Mart has chosen a very small town with the wrong zoning, and is the process of pushing its way past local wishes. The

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City Agrees to Hear Citizen’s Wal-Mart Complaints

August 6, 2005

More updates from Albuquerque, New Mexico, where residents have sent in this story to bring Sprawl-Busters up to date: “After a 7 month uphill battle,

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Home Depot Worker Finds Job Disappears

August 6, 2005

Good things happen when Home Depot comes to town. At least, that’s what the company says. But here’s a story that came into Sprawl-Busters about

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Wal-Mart Finally Pulls Out of Town

August 6, 2005

In May of 2004, Sprawl-Busters carried a story about the community of Ellenwood, Georgia, which was organizing to fight off a Wal-Mart. That was 15

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Wal-Mart Won’t Waste Calories Over Back-To-School Boycott

August 6, 2005

Shoppers across America are being asked to find someplace besides Wal-Mart to purchase their back-to-school supplies, in protest of the retailer’s violation of child labor

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Residents Alarmed By Report Of Wal-Mart Interest

August 6, 2005

All it takes is the breath of a Wal-Mart development in Oregon to create a backdraft of community opposition. The retail giant has had tough

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Wal-Mart Blows Appeal For Wrong Postage

August 6, 2005

Wal-Mart must have gone “postal” this week, when its attorneys failed to properly notify defendents in a lawsuit because they used the wrong postage on

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See No Wal-Mart, Speak No Wal-Mart

August 6, 2005

Residents in Yelm, Washington have to be careful what they say these days. They just might utter the banned words that strike fear into the

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Cabela’s Big Box Wants $10 Million In Welfare Payments

August 6, 2005

The low price of big box stores keeps rising. This week, Cabela’s, which bills itself as the world’s largest outdoor outfitter, headquartered in Sidney, Nebraska,

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Wal-Mart PR Guy Sent Packing

August 5, 2005

As a footnote to yesterday’s story about the citizen’s victory in Newport News, Virginia, over Wal-Mart, here’s a story sent to Sprawl-Busters about how the

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Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Lowe’s. You Name It.

August 5, 2005

Think your community is overrun with sprawl? The residents of Hadley, Massachusetts, which used to be a picturesque postcard farming community, has transformed itself over

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Citizens Force Wal-Mart To Withdraw Plan

August 4, 2005

It didn’t take long for the news in Newport News, Virginia to spread: Wal-Mart withdrew its plans today to build a superstore in this community

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Wal-Mart Energy Savings Called ‘Insignificant Greenwashing.’

August 4, 2005

Wal-Mart recently opened its “green” store in McKinney, Texas with a full-blown media effort to spin the company as an environmentally-friendly giant. Kevin Gainer, Managing

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Home Depot Gets Subpoena On Hazardous Waste

August 2, 2005

This week Home Depot got slapped with a grand jury subpoena, served up by the U.S. Attorney??s office in Los Angeles. The grand jury wants

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Residents Call Wetlands Home Depot ‘Ludicrous’

August 2, 2005

Residents in Lorain, Ohio think that Home Depot is all wet. The giant home improvement chain wants to locate a store on 63.5 acres of

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Wal-Mart Developer Contributes to City Councilor

August 2, 2005

Residents in Albuquerque, New Mexico have been bought off with a few trees and design changes to a proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter. But one City Councilor

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Wal-Mart Drops Lawsuit Over Liquor License.

August 2, 2005

Residents in Macomb, Illinois are raising their glasses to Circuit Court Judge William Henderson, who dismissed the civil lawsuit that retail giant Wal-Mart filed against

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After Defeat, Wal-Mart Is Back One Year Later

August 2, 2005

Last June, Sprawl-Busters narrated the story of Thornton, Colorado’s victory over a Wal-Mart rezoning. But like a weed with deep roots, Wal-Mart keeps coming up

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