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Article: Residents of Houston Neighborhood Wage Fierce Fight against Wal-Mart Store.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- September 24, 2002
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By Rachel Graves, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 24--If Willowlake subdivision residents get a 3 a.m. hankering for a $1.97 gallon of Hawaiian Punch or want to stock up on 10 pairs of socks for $6.97, they have three Wal-Mart stores to choose from within five miles of their homes. A Wal-Mart-owned Sam's Club also is nearby.
Some of them have stopped shopping at Wal-Mart, though, now that the company is proposing an invasion of their neighborhood. A group of 200 residents is waging war against a proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter just northwest of the Houston city limits near Beltway 8 and West Road.
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