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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

After a flurry of national media stories, Wal-Mart has issued a public apology to a 68 year old shopper who was the victim of an

As the month of March began in Southern California, Wal-Mart came in like a lion. The giant retailer announced plans to open a grocery store

Wal-Mart is excited that a resident of the Florence-Firestone neighborhood near Watts, in Los Angeles, California, is agitating for a superstore. That’s what the company

On November 11, 2007, Sprawl-Busters reported that Home Depot was still smarting over a defeat at the hands of the Los Angeles City Council. Home

The Walgreens company, the country’s largest drugstore chain, calls itself modestly “the pharmacy all others are measured by and one of the most respected American

Still smarting over a defeat at the hands of the Los Angeles City Council, Home Depot filed a lawsuit on Friday against one Councilwoman they

“We Won!” reads the headline on the No Home Depot in Sunland Tujunga Campaign website. “We’ve waited 3 years to say this and these words

Public Relations firms don’t always like publicity — especially when the TV camera is pointed at them. This week in the Los Angeles, California neighborhood

On January 20, 2007, Sprawl-Busters updated a story from the Los Angeles neighborhood of Sunland-Tujunga, where residents have been battling Home Depot since the fall

Greenfield, Massachusetts native Penn Jillette, the talking half of the Las Vegas-based magic act Penn & Teller, turned his TV lens back on his hometown

If you ask the residents of the Los Angeles, California neighborhood of Sunland-Tujunga, they will tell you that there are 9 Home Depots within a

The environmental woes at Wal-Mart just keep spilling over. Federal Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules require corporations to disclose certain environmental matters, and Wal-Mart

This past week workers in six foreign countries filed a class action lawsuit in California, claiming that they were paid below minimum wage, forced to

This week Home Depot got slapped with a grand jury subpoena, served up by the U.S. Attorney??s office in Los Angeles. The grand jury wants

Wal-Mart spends $3.8 million every day on advertising, so it’s only fair that the other side of the WAL gets a some public exposure as

Just as Wal-Mart started to crank up its latest “real facts” campaign to “tell our story” to the public, and defend the honor of its

Attention Christmas shoppers, the home improvement twins are offered a small rebate to customers who were talked into buying their credit cards. Home Depot and

As anticipated, the Los Angeles City Council earlier today gave initial approval to a zoning ordinance that would require large retailers to demonstrate that their

Big box retailers like Wal-Mart would have to put their economics where their mouth is if a plan by city councilors in Los Angeles, California

Forget those everyday low prices. Shoppers for video games are in a for rude surprise. According to securities firm Piper Jaffray, a survey released last

Home Depot doesn’t sell clothes, but they have plenty of lawsuits available. In 1997, the federal Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) filed the largest sex

More than four years after Sprawl-Busters reported on the dangers of shopping at big box retailers, the major media is now “discovering” the issue. In

It seems like every few months the federal courts are approached by manufacturers suing Wal-Mart for selling counterfeit goods. In the past, its been Tommy

There are roughly 2,970 Wal-Marts and Sam’s Clubs in the United States. To our knowledge there is only one Wal-Mart that has more than one