It’s been an inch-by-inch crawl for Wal-Mart in Ridgecrest, California, because the world’s largest retailer has been waiting years for public welfare to come through
A 19 year old mother got a taste of Wal-Mart bureaucracy in Fort Collins, Colorado on January 23rd when store officials told her to stop
About 4 weeks ago, the Oregonian newspaper carried a story that Wal-Mart had announced plans to open a 137,900 s.f. superstore in Tigard,Oregon by late
Residents in the small town of Maynard, Massachusetts (2010 pop. 10,106) have just over one month to try to derail a big box project that
This is literally an open and shut case. On July 7, 2012, Sprawl-Busters reported that Wal-Mart planned to construct a 185,706 s.f. superstore on 16.7
Two of the richest families on the planet — the Waltons and the Buffetts — have taken public welfare from taxpayers to help clean up
On June 27, 2012, Sprawl-Busters reported that residents in Hawthorne, New Jersey had taken legal action to block a proposed Wal-Mart grocery store. Roughly 10
By not being able to work with local citizens, Wal-Mart once again finds itself heading to court instead of heading to a ribbon-cutting. This time
A federal appeals court in San Francisco has “delivered” a verdict against Wal-Mart in the case of a pregnant woman who claimed that the company
In Home Depot’s attempts to find the perfect spot to lcoate in Wichita, KS, they chose a site located on an existing water-slide park. The
Neighbors in the small community of Seekonk, Massachusetts were caught by surprise this week when they learned that the Wal-Mart they had been fighting since
In early May of 2012, the Mayor of Ellisville, Missouri chastized his fellow City Council members when they voted to give a Wal-Mart developer a
What started off last summer as another unwanted corner drugstore, has turned into a project the community can feel better about. In early July, 2012,
Ask almost anyone who has sued Wal-Mart over the past half century, and they will tell you that getting justice out of the giant retailer
Facing the threat of Wal-Mart moving out of the city, the Naperville, Illinois City Council has voted to give the giant retailer a $1.75 million
What Wal-Mart can’t get by regulation, it tries to win by litigation. On May 22, 2008, Sprawl-Busters reported that Wal-Mart had been rejected twice in
This week anti-sprawl activists in Southfield, Michigan sent word of their defeat over the world’s largest retailer on a controversial piece of property that was
Home improvement giant Home Depot was linked to a bribery scheme with former New Orleans, Louisiana Mayor Ray Nagin in mid January that surprised even
The giant S.S. Wal-Mart is finally steaming home. After decades of sourcing goods from foreign ports, Wal-Mart has discovered America — manufacturing, that is. In
On January 16, 2013, the Associated Press reported that Democratic Governor Peter Shumlin of the Green Mountain State of Vermont had stunned environmentalists by touting
According to Channel 10 TV news in Tampa, Florida, Wal-Mart has a new fight on its hands in the unincorporated community of Carrollwood in Hillsborough
About two and a half years ago, Wal-Mart and a developer tried to rush the city of Shrewsbury, Missouri into approving a $15 million public
If at first you don’t succeed, submit your Wal-Mart plan again. Wal-Mart has shaken off defeat in Hillsboro, Oregon, and returned to the city with
Activists in Sarasota, Florida are battling to prevent the construction of a 98,000 s.f. Wal-Mart store on Ringling Boulevard. The Alta Vista Neighborhood Association (AVNA)
Since April, Home Depot has been forced to delay votes at the Wheaton City Council, having already had two strikes against them in lower boards
Cottage Grove, Minnesota is a city of roughly 35,000 people and 5 Wal-Marts within 15 miles, including two superstores. The motto of the city is:
Anti-Wal-Mart activists in Mexico have walked a more dangerous line than those of us in America. They have learned that that the truth will not
Meijer’s, the mid-west discount chain store wants to build a 215,000 s.f. superstore on 33 acres of land in St.Charles, IL. The Mayor thinks the
Here’s a Christmas story with a happy ending. It’s a story about a big gift that nobody wanted. On November 21, 2011, Sprawl-Buster’s received a
Buried in the recent news about Wal-Mart and Black Friday controversies, was the story out of Lithonia, Georgia, where another “suspected” shoplifter ended up paying
The Wal-Mart superstore in the tiny town of Hinsdale, New Hampshire was open to the public on Black Friday, but not to everyone in the
One of the longest running citizen battles against Wal-Mart reached another milestone this month. A developer has broken ground in the town of St.Albans, Vermont.
Was it Bill Clinton who inserted Wal-Mart on President Obama’s short list for Fiscal Cliff discussions at the White House recently? Clinton promotes Wal-Mart CEO
Wal-Mart has suffered through ten years and three separate lawsuits in Red Bluff, California, and still has not been able to clear all the legal
Wal-Mart announced roughly five months ago that it was withdrawing its proposal to build a store in the Assembly Square neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, a
Home Depot has learned the hard way about Chinese take out. And the mistakes it made in this foreign market will cost its investors millions,
Rockey Carter is asking Wal-Mart for an apology. But he is unlikely to get one. On October 16th, Carter was shopping at a Wal-Mart in
Residents in Denver, Colorado are celebrating what one neighbor called a real victory for the E. 9th Ave and Colorado Boulevard neighborhood. A proposed Wal-Mart
A proposal for a Wal-Mart supercenter in Lorain, Ohio has just been put on ice for the next five months. A group of residents who
Wal-Mart should have known what it was getting into just by the name of the town: Battle Ground. This week Sprawl-Busters received word from residents
On October 4, 2012, workers at a Wal-Mart store in Pico Rivera, California, and eight other stores in the Los Angeles area, walked off the
Wal-Mart warehouse workers in Southern California may have gone back to their temp jobs, but the revolt of warehouse employees has spread to other states.
Wal-Mart uses predominantly temporary workers to do its heavy lifing at its warehouses in Americ and around the world. These workers wemt on strike recently
At the heart of American arrogance is the notion that what we have in this country is what the rest of the world needs —
For the past 5 years, residents of Ceres, California have been engaged in a marathon battle against Wal-Mart. That prolonged fight is certainly not what
The “Don’t Box The Neck” citizen’s group in Pawleys Island, South Carolina reports this week that developers have lost the first round of a battle
The Wall Street Journal reported on September 14th that Wal-Mart lost a shot at being part of a huge development in Brooklyn, New York —
In April of 2004, Dr. Jaime Lagunez Otero, a highly regarded biologist and human rights activist working at the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s (UNAM)
The village of Elmwood Park, Wisconsin has the distinction of being the last small village in the state to incorporate in 1960. Elmwood Park became
The standoff in Milwaukee, Wisconsin between a Wal-Mart Sam’s Club and local residents is over. And local residents won. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports today
The strategies written here were produced by Sprawl-Busters in 2006 at the request of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), mainly for citizen groups that were fighting Walmart. But the tips for fighting unwanted development apply to any project—whether its fighting Dollar General, an Amazon warehouse, or a Home Depot.
Big projects, or small, these BATTLEMART TIPS will help you better understand what you are up against, and how to win your battle.