Wal-Mart’s Open and Shut Down Case
March 9, 2011
Residents in North Smithfield, Rhode Island fought a proposed Wal-Mart supercenter for years, warning of the negative impacts another huge store would have on an
Woonsocket, RI
Mayor Threatens To Cut Off Water To Wal-Mart Project
April 18, 2010
Since the spring of 2004, activists in North Smithfield, Rhode Island, population 11,300, have been fighting a major retail development in their community anchored by
Wal-Mart Held Up In Court Over City Betrayal of Residents
January 3, 2005
Residents in Woonsocket, Rhode Island have good reason to feel betrayed by city officials who sold city-owned land to Wal-Mart for a project the original
Neighbors Take Wal-Mart Rezoning to Superior Court.
May 16, 2004
About a dozen residents of Woonsocket, Rhode Island have filed a lawsuit in Superior Court to block a proposed 206,000 s.f. Wal-Mart supercenter on wooded
CVS Pays $1.1 million to settle “Partial Prescription” lawsuits.
January 11, 2003
The Consumer Value Store (CVS) agreed this week to pay $1.1 million to settle litigation brought in 18 states and the District of Columbia for
CVS has 345 vacant stores & 3.1 million empty square feet.
October 14, 2002
CVS, the “Consumer Value Store”, could more appropriately be called the “Commonly Vacant Store”. According to Sprawl-Busters research, the drug store chain had a total
200 CVS stores go dark
November 3, 2001
What goes up, must come down. Many of those free-standing CVS convenience stores that went up and drove community groups wild, are now going down.