Friday, November 16, 2007
The War Against Wal-Mart Roundup
There are numerous skirmishes all over the nation and world where places do not want Wal-Mart to infest itself upon the populance. Here's a quick roundup of the action.
California: Solano Co.: Airport Land Use Commission Votes Against Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart may try to go smaller in Atascadero
Texas: The City Wins This Round in the Fight Againist Wal-Mart
Florida: Planning board blocks Venice-area Wal-Mart
That's it for this installment. More to come, as always.
[Update: Georgia: Wal-Mart makes its revised pitch Dec. 1 (thanks for the link and news, Bob, I had to use the AJC link because yours wasn't working for me).]
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, California, Texas, Florida
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Wal-Mart Ordered to Pay Legal Fees
California: Solano Co.: Airport Land Use Commission Votes Against Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart may try to go smaller in Atascadero
Texas: The City Wins This Round in the Fight Againist Wal-Mart
Florida: Planning board blocks Venice-area Wal-Mart
That's it for this installment. More to come, as always.
[Update: Georgia: Wal-Mart makes its revised pitch Dec. 1 (thanks for the link and news, Bob, I had to use the AJC link because yours wasn't working for me).]
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, California, Texas, Florida
Labels: california, florida, roundup, texas
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Del.icio.us It
Digg It!Wal-Mart Ordered to Pay Legal Fees
Wal-Mart to pay Pa. plaintiff legal fees
Maybe Wal-Mart is starting to realize that screwing over employees is just bad business? Probably not.
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, precedent, class action, forced overtime
Monday, November 05, 2007
Buyer Confusion is Wal-Mart's Gain
Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) Stores Inc. has been ordered to pay $36.4 million in fees and expenses to attorneys representing Pennsylvania employees who won a class-action award for working off the clock.Which is an expensive and daunting precedent for all of the other class action lawsuits across the country.
The award entered in favor of the plaintiffs including fees and interest now totals $187.6 million, Common Pleas Judge Mark Bernstein wrote in an opinion issued Wednesday.
Maybe Wal-Mart is starting to realize that screwing over employees is just bad business? Probably not.
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, precedent, class action, forced overtime
Labels: class action, forced overtime, precedent
Monday, November 05, 2007
Buyer Confusion is Wal-Mart's Gain
How lame is Wal-Mart?
So lame that they had a knock off game made to look like a Wii remote controller so that confused parents might accidentally buy the piece of crap.
One of the Worst Toys Ever Made at a Wal-Mart Near You
File this one under confusion-based retailing.
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, knock off, lame, Wii
One Down, Far Too Many To Go
So lame that they had a knock off game made to look like a Wii remote controller so that confused parents might accidentally buy the piece of crap.
One of the Worst Toys Ever Made at a Wal-Mart Near You
File this one under confusion-based retailing.
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, knock off, lame, Wii
Labels: confusion-based retail
One Down, Far Too Many To Go
Wal-Mart closing Clarksville, Texas store
I guess they'd bled the town dry and were ready to move on. Actually, the residents of the town petitioned against the closure which makes me think of Stockholm Syndrome.
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, closure, one down, Stockholm Syndrome
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Pretty Sneaky, Wally
I guess they'd bled the town dry and were ready to move on. Actually, the residents of the town petitioned against the closure which makes me think of Stockholm Syndrome.
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, closure, one down, Stockholm Syndrome
Labels: closure
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Pretty Sneaky, Wally
David versus Goliath: Austin residents take-on Wal-Mart
In the past, locals in an area targeted for retail assault by Wal-Mart have been able to get a headstart on the battle by keeping tabs on land purchases and zoning change requests. How very weasely of them!
But Wallyworld has learned a new trick, instead of buying the land, they lease it and let the landowner file the paperwork for them. It keeps them under the radar a bit longer and makes it that much harder to fight them.
Wal-Mart is the disease and information and the dissemination of their misdeeds and exploits is the cure.
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, weasel, circumvention
In the past, locals in an area targeted for retail assault by Wal-Mart have been able to get a headstart on the battle by keeping tabs on land purchases and zoning change requests. How very weasely of them!
But Wallyworld has learned a new trick, instead of buying the land, they lease it and let the landowner file the paperwork for them. It keeps them under the radar a bit longer and makes it that much harder to fight them.
Residents’ frustration over Wal-Mart’s hushed move-in was compounded by the city’s atypical approval process of Wal-Mart’s site plan. By granting the developer an “administrative” site permit instead of a “conditional use” permit—which RG4N says is required by city law because of Wal-Mart’s outdoor garden center—the city-council wasn’t required to hold a public hearing.Wal-Mart will also stoop to lying to town councils about their personal culpablity (i.e. they are told that they will have to provide their own legal defense on their own dime, something that's pretty much never happened before).
Wal-Mart is the disease and information and the dissemination of their misdeeds and exploits is the cure.
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, weasel, circumvention
Labels: weasels