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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..

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

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,

Wal-Mart faces many threats to its ongoing profitability. That’s why it employs two platoons worth of lobbyists, and spends millions of dollars annually to minimize

Just over two years ago I wrote a column on The Huffington Post which charged that giant retailers like Wal-Mart and Target were using mom

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

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

Two days into the summer of 2011, a group called the National Summer Learning Association issued 10 press releases across the nation, heralding the award

Some people might think that going to a drugstore is supposed to help you feel better — but that certainly was not the experience CVS

Back in the 1960s, activists used to say that in the halls of justice, the only justice was in the halls. Today, the U.S. Supreme

You have your answer now, in case there was any doubt. When the U.S. Supreme Court votes in late June to decertify the class of

Wal-Mart bosses refer to their women workers as Janie Q’s. That’s according to lawyers who are representing 1.6 million Janie Q’s who are suing the

After several aborted attempts to build a superstore in Washington, D.C., Wal-Mart has changed its tactics and is zeroing in on much smaller projects, with

You may never see Barack Obama shopping there — but Wal-Mart has its eye on other shoppers in the nation’s capital. On August 28, 2004,

On the surface, Wal-Mart appears to be thriving while most Americans suffer through the recession. But the company’s 1.4 million workers are not sharing in

The Wall Street Journal carried a page one headline on August 1st that has shaken up electoral politics, and given Wal-Mart corporate executives one more

Wal-Mart’s reputation continues to proceed it. The group Wal-Mart Watch this week commented on two new reports that indicate sale may be u at Wal-Mart,

The “Meat Wars” between Wal-Mart and the United Food and Commercial Workers was on the front burner this week, as a court ruling gave both

The world’s largest retailer, and the world’s largest cat are on a collision path. Last month, Wal-Mart released a 59 page “Sustainability” progress report, in

It looks like Wal-Mart’s low prices aren’t the only thing falling at the corporate chain. Consumer opinion of the company continues to fall lower as

A new nationwide survey released this month says that only 19% of Americans think their hometowns have too few “large discount or warehouse stores such

For nearly a decade, Sprawl-Busters has written about the use of tax dollars to subsidize Wal-Mart stores and distribution centers. The group Good Jobs First,

Yesterday, the April 17th federal tax day, WakeUpWalMart.com launched a national tax day protest in 64 cities and 28 states to highlight the fact that

Efforts by major retailers like Wal-Mart and Home Depot to open up their own banks have bounced — at least for now. The Federal Deposit

For years, Sprawl-Busters has reported on the serious epidemic of crime at Wal-Mart stores. In 1999, “Slam Dunking Wal-Mart” contained a chapter on crime at

The AFL-CIO released this past week a 16 page study of the public subsidies that state and federal taxpayers provide to the private retailer, Wal-Mart,

A national survey of American adults released this week by Zogby International, finds that 38% of American polled have an unfavorable opinion of Wal-Mart. The

Ready or not, here they come. Child-labor law enforcers from the U.S. Department of Labor are no longer going to give Wal-Mart 15 days advance

Today U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy listed his “Ten Commandments for Wal-Mart” as part of a blog posting at the Huffington Post. Here are exerpts from

On November 14th, a list of 484 planned Wal-Mart openings over the next 12 months was released to the media. Here’s the original release that

In the book “The Case Against Wal-Mart,” we wrote about Sam Walton’s son, Jim, and the banking empire that Sam created, now called Arvest. Over

Fifty members of Congress want Wal-Mart to disclose data about the wages they pay their workers, to see if a pattern of gender discrimination exists.

USA Today reports this week that Sam Walton’s daughter, Alice, has led a Walton family lobbying effort to permanently repeal the federal estate tax. President

Today across America there are roughly 356 empty Wal-Mart buildings, totalling 26 million square feet. Add in the parking lots, and you’ve got roughly 52

Sam Walton’s autobiography was titled “Made In America,” but since that book was written (by a Fortune magazine editor) not much else at Wal-Mart has

The headlines across America this week announced that Wal-Mart had agreed to settle a lawsuit against it for $11 million for using illegal workers to

Running a big business is not cheap. To keep government on your side costs money. But that’s one thing Wal-Mart has plenty of. That’s why

A new report from USAction profiles Wal-Mart as a leading lobbyist for new legislation “designed to kill the use of class action lawsuits, which have

Area residents in the Brentwood neighborhood of Washington, D.C. are celebrating today the short life of a Wal-Mart discount store proposal. The giant retailer announced

Wal-Mart has finally found our Nation’s Capitol on the map, and is deep in negotiations to try to open its first store in Washington, D.C.

Two retail giants got snared in the same net this week, as the federal government stayed the course in busting Wal-Mart and Rite Aide for

A new report from Good Jobs First released today concludes that Wal-Mart methodically attempts to lower its property taxes by challenging the assessments of its

Readers of this Newflash are familiar with our often-repeated stories about corporate welfare given to large retailers. A new report from Good Jobs First says

That Wal-Mart store you pass by on the highway is costing you a lot of money. A 25 page report released last week by Congressman

The money you spend on cheap underwear at Wal-Mart, could end up paying for elected officials in Congress who spend much of their timing covering

The United Church of Christ wants holiday shoppers to pause for a moment, and in the spirit of the season, send a Christmas card to

What would “Made in America” Sam Walton say about the latest civil penalty levied against his company by Uncle Sam? According to a Corporate Crime

Sprawl is bad for the environment — on many levels. Another example of this was featured in an August 28th. article by Reuters news service.

A major player representing 5,400 community banks, has told federal regulators that Wal-Mart should be denied its request to purchase a small bank in Broken

Companies like Wal-Mart boast that their jobs offer “quality compensation and benefits.” Wal-Mart says its jobs are “among the best in the retail industry, and