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A group of American and Canadian socially-concerned and faith-based shareholders of Wal-Mart stock — led by the As You Sow Foundation — are charging that

It’s the biggest legal threat that Wal-Mart has ever faced. On June 21, 2001, Sprawl-Busters reported that six women had sued Wal-Mart, charging the company

It’s a good thing that Wal-Mart’s corporate suits come with deep pockets, because the company has had to dig deep into its treasury to pay

This week Sprawl-Busters received an email from a worker in the town of Mayawaddi in Myanmar (Burma), on the border of the Thailand district of

For almost two years, the Target corporation has been the legal target of the National Federation for the Blind (NFB) over access to its website

The women of Wal-Mart will have their day in court. That was the upshot of the court ruling today that rocked the foundations in Bentonville,

For years Home Depot has tried to break into the City by the Bay, but political resistance to big box stores had previously nailed them

Three and a half years ago, on May 1, 2002, Sprawl-Busters reported that Home Depot had been repeatedly rejected in San Francisco. “After six years

This week the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, California, agreed to review a trial judge’s decision in June that allowed female

Wal-Mart left more than its heart in San Francisco today. It’s reputation as a global retailer also may be left in a federal courtroom as

Like a California brush fire, city ordinances regulating big box retail stores are jumping from city to city as more and more communities come to

Wal-Mart sells lots of apparel, but they never seem to run out of lawsuits. The company is the most sued corporation in America, and is

Like a suitor who has been repeatedly rejected, Home Depot’s orange has been squeezed badly in the City by the Bay. After six years of

Last June we told you about the massive sex discrimination suit being brought against Wal-Mart (see 6/21/01 newsflash) by its female employees. A similar suit

The President of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors, Tom Ammiano, is making it tough for stores with big box formats to barge into the City

Whose got the lower glass ceiling: Wal-Mart or Home Depot? We’ll find out eventually, as Wal-Mart is now forced to respond to a sex discrimination

Just about a year ago (see 10/18/99 newsflash) we reported that Mayor Willie Brown of San Francisco was being lobbied by a former staff member,

Tony Bennett may have left his heart in San Francisco, but Home Depot left its wallet. For several years now Home Depot has been pushing

All the world is a stage, but Rite Aid can’t get into the Pagoda Palace Theatre for all the money in the world. Once again,

Rite Aid must not have the rite stuff. One of the nation’s largest drug (convenience) store chains, Rite Aid has increasingly run into the wrong