Neighbors Say Wal-Mart Store Is Not Legally Zoned
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)
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
If you want to buy an abandoned Wal-Mart, the state of Texas always has a good supply of what the retailer calls “dark stores.” These
West Covina is a California community with around 112,000 residents. The city’s stated mission is to “strive to be a balanced and economically viable community.”
Since 2006, Sprawl-Busters has posted 13 stories about the citizens’ battle in Atascadero, California to keep out a Wal-Mart superstore. The group “Save Atasacadero” has
Nearly four months after the Wal-Mart Mexican bribery case landed on the retailer’s plate like a PR hot tamale, two leading members of U.S. Congressional
In October of 2010, Wal-Mart paid $775,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the state of New Jersey over the retailer’s selling of infant formula
Willets Point, a neighborhood within Corona, in the New York City borough of Queens, has been the target of many redevelopment dreams over the years.
On April 25, 1999, Sprawl-Busters reported that the Mayor of Mount Holly, New Jersey was concerned about the proposed building of a 137,000 s.f. Wal-Mart
The nickame for the city of Bryan, Texas is “The Good Life, Texas Style.” Naturally, people in Texas want big stores to cater to their
For years, Wal-Mart’s policy of over-saturating a trade area with stores has caused the company to cannibalize its own stores. This is no great surprise
Dead Wal-Marts — those stores which have been left empty by the giant retailer — are often hard to dispose of. Some “dark stores” as
The Honolulu City Council has delayed a vote to rezone a 14 acre parcel of city owned land in Pearl City to make way for
“I really don’t understand,” one reader told The Aegis newspaper, “why we need yet another Wal-Mart? I can drive to the Bel Air Road one
Angry residents of Hawthorne, New Jersey have decided to take legal action to try to block a Wal-Mart grocery store that they don’t want. The
Residents in Altadena, California are riled up over plans revealed late last week that Wal-Mart wants to construct a 28,000 s.f. Neighborhood Market in this
Wal-Mart dropped plans this week to build stores in two suburban Boston, Massachusetts communities. In Somerville, a proposed grocery store has been scrapped, and in
Several hundred million people shop at Wal-Mart stores every year, so its no big deal that every once in a while someone gets killed there
The small town of Thompson, NY (pop. 15,400) , nestled in the Sullivan County Catskills, describes itself as a “full service community in a rural
I’m exhausted from Wal-Mart’s 50th birthday bash held in Fayetteville, Arkansas last Friday for shareholders like me. Reuters described it as an “upbeat event,” but
With Wal-Mart getting ready to throw a big party for its 50th birthday this week, pension funds from across the county are defying the corporation’s
In a 2008 “sustainability” report, Wal-Mart boasted that it could convert “brownfield” building sites into an environmental bonus. “Selecting ‘brownfield’ sites for stores is another
Once again, local citizens have demonstrated that you can fight Wal-Mart — and win. On June 18, 2011, Sprawl-Busters reported that another community had found
Who would know Home Depot better than the residents of Atlanta, the company’s hometown. Despite Agent Orange’s hometown feeling, residents are fighting hammer and nail
In March of 2009, it looked like Wal-Mart was on its way to building a superstore in Exeter, Pennsylvania. Residents in this small borough, population
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.