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November 2005

Residents Try To Stop Third Supercenter

November 30, 2005

Sprawl-Busters has received the following frontlines report from residents in Tennessee: “We are fighting our THIRD Supercenter in Murfreesboro, a city of 80,000 people in

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Residents File Lawsuit Over Wal-Mart Plan.

November 30, 2005

Residents in Papillion, Nebraska are willing to fight to the bitter end to keep a Wal-Mart out of their town. According to the Omaha World-Herald

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Wal-Mart Pulls Plug On Superstore

November 30, 2005

Wal-Mart officials have blamed pesky local citizens and a County Commissioner for their embarrassing withdrawal of plans for a 130,000 s.f. superstore in East Orange

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City Council’s Emergency Size Cap Stops Wal-Mart

November 30, 2005

City officials in the small border town of San Luis, Arizona believe that a proposed Wal-Mart supercenter is more than just an ordinary threat —

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Another ‘Shoppers Trample Each Other’ At Wal-Mart Story

November 27, 2005

It seems like every Thanksgiving, we print another story about greedy Wal-Mart shoppers trampling each other in a mad race to get their hands on

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Home Depot, Lowe’s Kill Another Competitor

November 27, 2005

The apologists for the national chain stores, who like to pretend they’ve never heard the term “category killer,” will say this story is just about

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Home Depot Apologizes For Pencil ‘Theft’

November 26, 2005

Home Depot had to eat a little lead this week, when it issued an apology to a carpenter from Lawrence, Massachusetts, who was doing business

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Wal-Mart Defeated, Now Home Depot Next

November 23, 2005

There is no rest for the weary in Lorain, Ohio. Earlier this month, voters rejected a Wal-Mart supercenter at the polls, but now another big

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Wal-Mart Rezoning Denied.

November 23, 2005

The Zionsville, Indiana Planning Commission this week dealt Wal-Mart a setback — at least temporarily. The Commission voted not to rezone 12 acres of land.

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Residents Hold First Wal-Mart Chuck-Off.

November 21, 2005

Borrowing a page from David Letterman, anti-Wal-Mart activists in Pittsfield Township, Michigan, organized an unusually graphic way of displaying their unhappiness with a proposed Wal-Mart

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Ted Kennedy’s 10 Commandments for Wal-Mart

November 21, 2005

Today U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy listed his “Ten Commandments for Wal-Mart” as part of a blog posting at the Huffington Post. Here are exerpts from

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Wal-Mart Says ‘Stolen’ List ‘Not Accurate’

November 20, 2005

The Wal-Mart store openings list that Sprawl-Busters obtained last week and leaked to Wal-Mart Watch, which showed 484 planned store openings, by size, type and

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Wal-Mart Responds To Greenwald Film: Our Workers Are Liars

November 20, 2005

Against all norms of social convention, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. yelled “fire” in a crowded theater this past week, after viewing the Robert Greenwald film, “The

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Unions Strike Grocery Chains–But Wal-Mart Is the Real Issue.

November 19, 2005

A falling tide lowers all boats. Although Wal-Mart denies that it is forcing down wages at other grocery stores, the giant retailer’s competitors admit that

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Residents Continue Effort To Beat Wal-Mart Again

November 19, 2005

If Wal-Mart at first does not succeed, they will try, try again. Residents in Tallahassee, Florida turned back a Wal-Mart proposal once, but now Wal-Mart

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State Prisoners Building Wal-Mart Distribution Center

November 18, 2005

Sprawl-Busters has written many stories about how Wal-Mart’s distribution center system has been built with public welfare — usually in the form of large infrastructure

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City Begins Move To Shut Down Home Depot

November 18, 2005

Home Depot kept gambling that the city of Reno, Nevada would turn a blind eye to its repeated code violations. But the bet didn’t pay

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Lawmakers Propose Bills To Limit Corporate Welfare

November 16, 2005

State Representative Mark Pocan (D-Madison) announced this week that he is filing two bills that would limit large corporations like Wal-Mart and other big box

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Activists Ask UN to Intervene With Wal-Mart, Costco

November 16, 2005

Activists in Mexico have written a letter to the United Nations Secretary General asking that body to “guarantee that no more damage is done to

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Deja Vu All Over Again?

November 15, 2005

Citizens in Hillsboro, Oregon filed the following update as a post-victory update on Wal-Mart in their town: “A rumor is circulating that Wal-Mart intends to

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Citizens Get Wal-Mart To Pay for Road Improvements

November 15, 2005

Residents in Pittsfield Township, Michigan have been trying to block the permitting of a Wal-Mart supercenter. The citizen’s group, Pittsfield Community First, has at least

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Sprawl- Busters & Wal-Mart Watch Release Wal-Mart Store Openings List

November 15, 2005

On November 14th, a list of 484 planned Wal-Mart openings over the next 12 months was released to the media. Here’s the original release that

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Wal-Mart Says Public ‘Tunes Out’ Its Critics

November 15, 2005

In response to “Higher Expectations Week,” a blitz of events all across the country aimed at Wal-Mart’s business model, the over-built retailer issued the following

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Home Depot Sued For Breaking Land Deal

November 12, 2005

Even with close to $2 million in welfare on the table, Home Depot has walked away from a Detroit community — for the second time.

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Wal-Mart Faces Another Angry Crowd

November 11, 2005

Sprawl-Busters received the following citizens’ report this week from the battle lines against Wal-Mart in California: “I am a resident of Elk Grove, CA where

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Every Underdog Shall Have It’s Day, As Wal-Mart Loses.

November 10, 2005

Voters in Lorain, Ohio left no ambiguity for Wal-Mart to figure out. On Tuesday, the giant retailer’s plans to rezone 37 acres of land was

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Wal-Mart Buys Its Way Into Voters’ Hearts

November 9, 2005

Who says money can’t buy an election? Wal-Mart used its corporate treasury to help win friends in yesterday’s ballot question in Boonville, Missouri, where the

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Home Depot Finally Gets OK by 1 Vote

November 9, 2005

For years Home Depot has tried to break into the City by the Bay, but political resistance to big box stores had previously nailed them

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Citizens Win Right To Challenge Wal-Mart in Court

November 8, 2005

Residents in Edgewood, New Mexico were unwilling to let their town officials bend the rules for Wal-Mart, and its developer, Fonterra Development. When citizens legally

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Voters Easily Reject Target, Lowe’s Plan

November 8, 2005

One of the largest retail developers in New England suffered a major setback Tuesday when voters in Agawam, Massachusetts rejected two ballot questions placed by

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Wal-Mart Creates Another Phony Citizens Group

November 7, 2005

The small town of Boonville, Missouri, population 8,200, has had a Wal-Mart discount store since 1985. When it was built, it was an out of

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Residents Want Closer Look At “New Look” Wal-Mart Superstore.

November 7, 2005

Residents in Aurora, Illinois are organizing their troops to fight off a newly proposed Wal-Mart supercenter that developers say will have a “new look.” Here’s

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Illegal Workers No Surprise to Wal-Mart

November 7, 2005

An affidavit unsealed 5 days ago in Fayetteville, Arkansas by a U.S. District Court Judge confirms that Wal-Mart knew that it had illegal workers cleaning

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‘Leave A Cart’ Campaign At Wal-Mart

November 7, 2005

Activists in Fairbanks, Alaska are engaging in a little Saul Alinsky type organizing. To show their true feelings about Wal-Mart, Fairbanks residents are going to

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Wal-Mart Workers In Missouri Gain Class Action Status

November 3, 2005

Wal-Mart has yet another legal headache to add to its growing litigation problems. A Circuit Court Judge in Jackson County, Missouri this week granted class

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Residents Not Fooled By ‘Lifestyle’ Wal-Mart

November 2, 2005

The Parish Zoning Commission in Covington, Louisiana listened for two hours to debate over a proposed Wal-Mart supercenter, and then voted 9-0 to table the

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Nearly 48% of Voters Don’t Want Wal-Mart

November 2, 2005

There is no other retailer in America that comes close to the negative ratings that Wal-Mart gets at the ballot box. Last night in Westminster,

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Wal-Mart Becomes Two Time Loser.

November 1, 2005

On August 30, 2005, Sprawl-Busters predicted that Wal-Mart would lose its appeal of a Gresham, Oregon City Planner’s decision to deny a Wal-Mart supercenter application.

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Wal-Mart Promises A New Policy For Siting & Constructing Stores

November 1, 2005

Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott said last week that his company “didn’t get where we are today by being like everyone else and driving the middle

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