BIG BOX STORES (i.e., Wal-mart):

BIG MISTAKE or SULTAN'S SAVIOR?
What's the old saying about "Good things coming in little packages"? Perhaps this is a perfect time to begin applying that adage.

Search "Google" for "Wal-mart" and then search for "Costco" and see what you come up with!

Links to websites on
Wal-mart:

A humorous, yet scary website about the impacts of Big Box stores: The Big Box

OTHER ARTICLES/INFO:

Wal-Mart Watch

Sweatshops in Honduras

Wal-Mart Employee Abuse Forum

Wal-Mart Workers' Voice Radio

Wal-Mart "Memoirs"

Mohicans Struggle to Save Historic Site from Wal-Mart

Fighting Wal-mart: An article about a city 3,000 miles east of us, with pertinent reasons on why we should reject Wal-Mart. (Posted on our discussion forum Dec. 6, 2003, reprinted here.)

An audio blurb from Mayor Rowe: "What I did on my vacation" (you need Real Player, Microsoft's Media Player, or other audio software to hear this)

Articles of interest this subject

HOW TO FIGHT WAL-MART: How a small Virginia Town slam-dunked them (By the way, we spent about 45 minutes in a call to Wal-mart, trying to find a person to talk to us about the Mayor's visit. Once found, they wouldn't even confirm whether or not he was there. Confidential, dontcha know. We placed a PIR to the city on 7-2-02 for any information that may be in city files on this, or any other "big box" store. "Family wage jobs, indeed!)

Articles of Interest:

New York Times' article - Working at Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart Invasion into Puget Sound: Not in Our Backyard!
A story from Houston "Pay Snubs" (is Wal-Mart squeezing free overtime from workers?