AFTER 72 YEARS, MEMPHIS-BASED RETAILER & PHARMACY FRED’S CLOSES 159 OF ITS 557 STORES IN 13 MOSTLY SOUTHERN STATES. A total of 6,500 retail stores will close in 2019, plus 75,000 more dead stores by 2026.
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AFTER 72 YEARS, MEMPHIS-BASED RETAILER & PHARMACY FRED’S CLOSES 159 OF ITS 5…
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Al Norman
Al Norman first achieved national attention in October of 1993 when he successfully stopped Wal-Mart from locating in his hometown of Greenfield, Massachusetts. Almost 3 decades later they is still not Wal-Mart in Greenfield. Norman has appeared on 60 Minutes, was featured in three films, wrote 3 books about Wal-Mart, and gained widespread media attention from the Wall Street Journal to Fortune magazine. Al has traveled throughout the U.S., Barbados, Puerto Rico, Ireland, and Japan, helping dozens of local coalitions fight off unwanted sprawl development. 60 Minutes called Al “the guru of the anti-Wal-Mart movement.”