Last November, the consulting firm Global Insight (GI) released a study that found that Wal-Mart saved U.S. consumers $263 billion in 2004. That works out...
One of the world’s largest pension funds has sold its Wal-Mart stock, citing the retailer’s “serious and systemic violations of human rights and labour rights.”…...
A new study published this month in Social Science Quarterly has documented a correlation between Wal-Mart’s presence and higher poverty rates. … Read More
This talk was sponsored by the American Booksellers Association and given at Book Expo America, an industry trade show, in Washington, D.C. on May 19,...
In July, the town of Homer, Louisiana, will become the latest in a string of small Southern communities where Wal-Mart has taken over the local...
This report opens with an overview of research on the impacts of large chain stores and the benefits of locally owned businesses. It then outlines...
Next month voters in Humboldt County, California, will consider a ballot measure to ban election contributions by out-of-town corporations. … Read More
Among Jane Jacobs’ many accomplishments, she mobilized her neighbors and led several successful grassroots fights in the 1960s that saved Greenwich Village, Soho, Little Italy,...
A public hearing on a county ordinance to limit stores to 60,000 square feet got a late start because it had to be moved first...
A California appeals court upheld an ordinance enacted by the city of Turlock that prohibits the construction of supercenters. Wal-Mart had challenged the ordinance on...
On Tuesday, voters in the small town of Damariscotta, Maine, overwhelmingly approved a local law barring stores over 35,000 square feet (about the size of...
By a wide margin, the Vermont Senate endorsed a bill that would require any proposed big-box store in the state to undergo an economic and...
Voters in Frisco, Colorado, resoundingly defeated a plan to develop a Home Depot superstore. … Read More
Global retail corporations are aiming to use international trade agreements to challenge local land use and zoning regulations, according to an alarming new report from...
As the company’s misdeeds pile up in the public consciousness, it can be tempting to define the problem of Wal-Mart as one of a bad...