My Town Fought Wal-Mart – and Wal-Mart Won

By Christopher Orlet | CounterPunch | November 21, 2014 Four years ago, the developer of a proposed Wal-Mart supercenter in Florissant, Mo. (pop. 52,000) appeared before city leaders. For decades Wal-Mart had wanted to open a supercenter in my hometown and on this particular Monday evening a representative from THF Realty – Wal-Mart’s longtime developer of […]