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Homeowners Continue Their Court Challenge To Amazon Warehouse

February 19, 2019

AMAZON FLAMED OUT IN QUEENS, but neighbors in tiny Schodack, NY are still appealing in court to block 113 vacant acres from becoming a 1

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“When they don’t want you, they don’t want you.” That was the succinct comment from Home Depot’s sit?

January 26, 2019

“When they don’t want you, they don’t want you.” That was the succinct comment from Home Depot’s site development manager after the Brookfield, WI Town

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City Council Rejects Wal-Mart Annexation.

January 14, 2019

The City Council in Rice Lake, Wisconsin has sunk Wal-Mart plans to build a new store on 44 acres just outside the city. The annexation

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Town Planning Board Says No To Dollar General Box

December 12, 2018

After a six month review process, the Planning Board in Deerfield, Massachusetts has denied a site plan permit for a 9,318 sf DG store. The

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One Wal-Mart Is One More Than Enough.

December 9, 2018

Residents in Yakima, Washington are wondering how many Wal-Marts you can fit on the head of a pin? Here’s a report filed today from a

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TEST?

October 6, 2018

TEST TEST TEST

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Amazon “Hotdish” warehouse rejected by Planning Commission.

September 28, 2018

It???s not over yet—but the first hearing on a 2.6 million s.f. Amazon distribution facility was rejected Sept. 26th by the Brooklyn Park, MN planning

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Amazon Refuses to Acknowledge ‘Secret’ Gigantic Warehouse

September 24, 2018

Scannell Properties, a real estate developer based in Indianapolis, IN, which has worked on several huge Amazon warehouses, is planning a 2.6 million s.f. ???fulfillment

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99 CENT STORES ACCUSED OF FALSE IMPRISONMENT AND EXTORTION

September 17, 2018

On September 18th, Plaintiff Dennis J. Stankie will be in a California courtroom pursuing causes of actions of against the 99 Cent Only Stores arising

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Citizens Take Legal Action to Block Huge Amazon Warehouse

September 13, 2018

When is a warehouse not a warehouse? That is the surreal question facing residents in small upstate New York town near Albany. Residents in the

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Wal-Mart Could Save This American Company. But will it?

August 9, 2018

The Element TV company assembly plant in Winnsboro, S.C., is scheduled to lay off 124 (94%) of its workers by October because of ???the new

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Welfare for Wal-Mart

June 18, 2018

On this election day, how appropriate that we remember the important role of the American taxpayer in helping to subsidize the operation of one of

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The town of View Royal has turned down a Home Depot proposal. At a recent town Council meeting, the ?

June 12, 2018

The town of View Royal has turned down a Home Depot proposal. At a recent town Council meeting, the vote was 24 people against Home

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Walmart Shareholders Want Report on Racial Pay Gaps

April 24, 2018

On May 30th at Walmart???s 2018 Annual Meeting, shareholders will vote on a ???Request for Report on Racial or Ethnic Pay Gaps.??? A group of

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C. U.S. Supreme Court Hears Online Sales Tax Case

April 17, 2018

SUPREME COURT HEARS HUGE SALES TAX CASE AFFECTING ONLINE SALES This week, the Supreme Court will hear the case of South Dakota v. Wayfair Inc..

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Mayor Gets His Home Depot

April 11, 2018

Mayor Bill Souder finally got his Home Depot. It took him two times to convince local officials to approve the huge store, but he closed

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Wal-Mart Sweatshop Workers Beaten, Fired

April 5, 2018

A worker’s rights group reported last week that workers at an apparel factory in Cavite, Philippines were attacked and beaten on September 27th. by city

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C. Walmart Pays $1.3 M to City to Back Out of Two Projects

March 29, 2018

Walmart is paying the District of Columbia $1.3 million of ???sorry money??? after the retailer ditched two planned stores in Washington???s low-income neighborhoods. The two

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A jury has awarded 4 investors, and their company, Gulf Coast Investment, $1 million in actual damag?

March 25, 2018

A jury has awarded 4 investors, and their company, Gulf Coast Investment, $1 million in actual damages, and $500,000 in expemplary damages in a lawsuit

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Wal-Mart is literally trying to raise the dead to make way for their controversial store in West Nas?

March 16, 2018

DID WALMART INFLATE ITS ONLINE SALES NUMBERS? Walmart stock soared in recent months largely on the strength of its online sales numbers—but one former Walmart

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Family Dollar Settles $45 Million Pay Discrimation Lawsuit

March 15, 2018

FAMILY DOLLAR PAYS CLASS OF FEMALE STORE MANAGERS $45 MILLION IN EQUAL PAY SETTLEMENT After a 15 year lawsuit, tens of thousands of female managers

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An Example of the Worst Kind of Big Box Sprawl In America

February 12, 2018

Just what Florida needs: another 700,000 s.f. of retail sprawl. That???s the equivalent of 12 football fields, plus three times as much blacktop for parking

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HERE’S THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE WAL-MART SUSTAINABLE.

December 9, 2017

There is only one way to make Wal-Mart sustainable: block their superstore sprawl. That???s exactly what has just happened in Miami yesterday. A federal judge

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Wal-Mart Scraps Plan For Another Superstore

December 6, 2017

Wal-Mart opponents couldn???t be happier. A Wal-Mart spokesman this week confirmed rumors that the retailer is dropping its plans for a supercenter in this city

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After A Decade of Delay, Judge Clears Way For Wal-Mart Expansion

December 5, 2017

Eleven years after losing a City Council vote to expand their superstore in Chico, California, Wal-Mart got some help from a judge, who cleared the

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WAL-MART CANCELS ANOTHER SUPERSTORE PLAN

November 19, 2017

They are celebrating today in Monroe and Trumbull, Connecticut. Wal-Mart announced two days ago that it is abandoning its proposal to build a superstore in

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Wal-Mart Closes Another Store After Only 14 Years

October 19, 2017

Great news from Bristol, PA. After only 14 years in business, Wal-Mart is shutting down its store in three weeks. According to the Philadelphia Business

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After 10 years, new tenant found for dead Wal-Mart Building

September 30, 2017

In July of 2007, officials in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, located east across the Connecticut River from Brattleboro, Vermont, learned that their “old” 105,000 s.f. Wal-Mart

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WAL-MART FILES MULTIPLE LAWSUITS TO LOWER ITS PROPERTY TAXES

September 26, 2017

America???s largest retailer,owned by American???s richest family, is filing a flurry of lawsuits against cities and small towns in Wisconsin, seeking to pay these communities

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Alice Walton Revealed as ‘Dark Money’ Behind Ballot Question in Mass

September 17, 2017

Money can???t buy you love—and it doesn???t always buy political victory either. Ten months after Massachusetts voters defeated by a 62% margin a ballot question

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The Dutch conglomerate Royal Ahold is putting up gas stations in its super Stop & Shop parking lots.?

September 4, 2017

The Dutch conglomerate Royal Ahold is putting up gas stations in its super Stop & Shop parking lots. In Cumberland, RI, Stop & Shop is

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More Corporate Welfare For Wal-Mart

August 5, 2017

A school board in Pennsylvania wants to give Wal-Mart welfare, because the giant retailer is apparently too poor to build stores without taxpayer assistance. The

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Wal-Mart Abandons Its Plans, Says Retail Climate Has Changed

July 12, 2017

Nine years ago, in May of 2008, residents of Copley, Ohio contacted Sprawl-Busters for help in blocking a proposed Wal-Mart superstore. This week, residents wrote

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“Dark Store” Loophole Allows Big Boxes To Shift Taxes To Homeowners

June 25, 2017

An obscure war lasting more than two decades has pitted Big Box retailers like Lowe???s, Home Depot, Target and Wal-Mart against taxpayers in small towns

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Unpopular Wal-Mart Moves Closer To Groundbreaking

June 11, 2017

Wal-Mart is not opening many new stores this year, focusing instead on how to grow their online sales. But if things go the retailer???s way,

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A developer wants to put a 203,750 s.f. Wal-Mart supercenter 1,700 feet from the Lower Macungie, PA ?

June 4, 2017

A developer wants to put a 203,750 s.f. Wal-Mart supercenter 1,700 feet from the Lower Macungie, PA Middle School, and a new road will run

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wrk1/nomart?

June 3, 2017

wrk1/nomart Citizens in Lower Macungie Township are fighting a developer from Nashville, TN who wants to build a 200,000 s.f. Wal-Mart superstore. The “No-Mart Coalition”

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WAL-MART LEANS ON ITS UNDERPAID WORKERS TO GO THE LAST MILE

June 2, 2017

Wal-Mart is counting on its workers literally ???to go the last mile??? for their company. Wal-Mart is enticing its workers on their was home from

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Trump Cuts a Deal With Wal-Mart To Settle Mexican Bribery Case

May 10, 2017

For nearly 6 years, Wal-Mart has suffered through painful headline stories about it corrupt practices while seeking permit approvals for new store growth in Mexico,

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Local residents have no clue how to stop Wal-Mart

April 9, 2017

An eastern Massachusetts developer has locals in the Western Mass city of Pittsfield eating out of his hand. Local opponents of the enormous 196,000 s.f.

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The Matrix Development Group must have been displeased recently when another “group” of nearly 200 r?

April 6, 2017

The Matrix Development Group must have been displeased recently when another “group” of nearly 200 residents showed up in Lower Makefield, Pennsylvania to protest plans

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Drug Addicts At Wal-Mart Draining Small City Police Resources

March 13, 2017

The city of Tiffin, Ohio (pop 18,000) has a Wal-Mart problem. ???It is a problem, it has always been a problem with the big box

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After A 13 Year Battle, Another Wal-Mart Slithers Away

March 9, 2017

On December 3, 2006, Sprawl-Busters reported that a developer wanted to build a 228,000-s.f. Wal-Mart supercenter in Toms River, New Jersey. But the northern pine

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Capping the Size of Stores

February 15, 2017

A citizens group called the Mystic View Task Force has organized to stop suburban sprawl from encroaching on 145 acres of urban land by the

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After Aa 10 Year Fight, Wal-Mart Crashes and Burns

February 11, 2017

Since 2006, Sprawl-Busters has written 16 articles about Wal-Mart???s protracted effort to build a store in Atascadero, California. That all came to crashing end when

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After a 12 Year Battle, Wal-Mart Finally Gives Up.

December 26, 2016

This month, Wal-Mart finally threw in the towel in Ballston, New York, Sprawl-Busters first learned of a Wal-Mart battle in the small town of Ballston

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Wal-Mart Gives Up On Another One–Despite Super Tax Breaks

December 16, 2016

Wal-Mart has decided to take a pass on a project in El Paso. At the end of October, Wal-Mart told the city of El Paso,Texas

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‘ARE YOU GOING TO STOP EVERY BLACK WOMAN’?

December 6, 2016

On December 1s, Brenda Rivers, a 59 year old black woman shopping at a Wal-Mart in Homewood, Alabama was handcuffed and detained for half an

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Terri Saunders (not her real name), a Wal-Mart employee, was forcefully and brutally raped by her Wa?

December 5, 2016

Terri Saunders (not her real name), a Wal-Mart employee, was forcefully and brutally raped by her Wal-Mart supervisor while she was at work in the

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Wal-Mart Pays $7.5 M to settle same sex couple discrimination case

December 3, 2016

Wal-Mart has set aside $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit affecting roughly 1,100 of its gay and lesbian employees charging that the retailer denied health

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