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Article: Wal-Mart fight heats up in California.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- June 19, 2007
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Byline: Randy Dotinga Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
San Diego -- Drop by just about any big city in the South, and you're likely to come across a Wal-Mart store. Or two. Or 10. But they're harder to find in California, and municipal leaders across the state want to keep it that way.
At particular issue in the Golden State: Wal-Mart's efforts to open "superstores" in cities both big and small.
Here in San Diego - which already has "regular" Wal-Marts - the City Council is expected to ban Wal-Mart "superstores" within city limits, a move that would override last week's mayoral veto. Urged on by unions, supermarkets, and small ...