Little Egg Harbor: Hearing to Continue

Tuckerton Hometown Briefs, February 26, 2009

The Little Egg Harbor Planning Board will continue its hearing for the application for a Wal-Mart Super center at 7 p.m. March 5. . . . (click here for full story)

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Vineland Wal-Mart seen as boon and threat

CourierPostOnline.com, January 22, 2009

For years, the vast parking lot at the former Jamesway shopping center was barren. But empty parking spaces were hard to find on Wednesday when the state's third Wal-Mart Super center officially opened its doors. . . . (click here for full story)

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Vineland Wal-Mart Opens / Super Center on Landis Avenue Crowded with First-Day Shoppers

Press of Atlantic City, January 22, 2009

Wal-Mart opened its massive new Vineland store to a good deal of fanfare Wednesday. Shoppers packed the Wal-Mart Super center on Landis Avenue a few hours after its early morning opening, with the heavy traffic beginning in the early afternoon and clogging some parts of the store with shopping-cart traffic jams. . . . (click here for full story)

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Wal-Mart Wants Mays Landing super center / Union members pack meeting before Hamilton Planning Board

Press of Atlantic City, March 7, 2008

Facing a pro-union audience of about 100 people, Wal-Mart presented plans to expand its Mays Landing store into a super center during a Planning Board meeting Thursday. The board had not decided whether to grant Wal-Mart final site-plan approval before The Press' deadline and was likely to continue the hearing to a future meeting. . . . (click here for full story)

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Rio Grande Wal-Mart Opens Today -- At Last

Press of Atlantic City, June 13, 2007

A new Wal-Mart that sat finished but empty for more than a year will open today. Meanwhile, a union rally opposing the giant retail chain is scheduled for this morning outside the store on Route 9 in Rio Grande. . . . (click here for full story)

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Union Rallies At Hammonton Wal-Mart, Alleges Company Costing Taxpayers

Press of Atlantic City, March 23, 2007

Members of UFCW Local 152 are part of a series of protests across the country. A union that represents workers at major supermarket chains in the area rallied outside a Hammonton Wal-Mart on Thursday, demanding that America's largest corporation pay its workers higher wages and offer more adequate health care and job stability. . . . (click here for full story)

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