The historic Wilderness Battlefield in Fredericksburg, Virginia claimed another casualty this week: Wal-Mart. The southern-born retailing giant fell on its own sword by announcing abruptly
The first shot in a long legal battle over a superstore near a Civil War battlefield has hit Wal-Mart — but its just a superficial
What more symbolic location for a Wal-Mart supercenter than a battlefield? It came as no surprise this week that a proposed Wal-Mart store near one
The Wilderness Battle in Orange County, Virginia may have been hard for Union or Confederate troops to predict — but the outcome of the Wal-Mart
The first shot has been fired by public officials in what has become a bloody public relations war for the Wal-Mart corporation. Last night, by
On November 2, 2008, Sprawl-Busters reported that Wal-Mart had a civil war on its hands. One hundred and fifty four years after one of the
More often than necessary, Wal-Mart collides with history. One hundred and fifty four years after one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Wal-Mart
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.