NW Citizens for Responsible Growth: Studies, Articles & Letters

Studies, Articles & Letters

Studies	Articles and Letters
Wal-Mart Crime Report. A study on crimes that occur at Wal-Mart store. The study includes a comparison with Target stores and costs to the public.	Local Control. The issue of local control is raised to concern by the growth of mass merchandizing. The developer of the Wal-Mart store proposed for St. Albans has introduced testimony to that Town’s DRB claiming a market area that extends one hour by car in every direction. This market area includes all of Franklin County, Grand Isle and Chittenden Counties and parts of Lamoille County, New York State and the Province of Quebec. Modern retailing developments affect the economics of regions and the State of Vermont. [click here for more]
Perry’s List of Studies is a reasonably complete list of studies. Most require Adobe Reader.	Don’t Blame Wal-Mart Wal-Mart has not become the world’s largest retailer by putting a gun to our heads and forcing us to shop there… [click here for more]
Impact of Wal-Mart Phenomenon on Rural Communities – by Kenneth E. Stone, Professor of Economics, Iowa State University, 1995. This study documents the impact of Wal-Mart stores on the towns where Wal-Mart store were built and on surrounding non Wal-Mart towns over a ten-year period. The impacts on common retail types of retail stores are detailed.	States Are Battling Against Wal-Mart Over Health Care In the national debate over what to do about the growing number of working people with little or no health insurance, no other company may be taking more heat than the country’s largest employer, Wal-Mart Stores… [click here for more]
Every day low wages: the hidden price we all pay for Wal-Mart – A report by the Democratic staff of the Committee on Education and Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, Representative George Miller (D-CA), Senior Democrat, February 16, 2004.	Perry’s List of Articles
	NEW!! Boston Globe-Sept. 20, 2009 This in-depth article explores the six year struggle by the Northwest Citizens for Responsible Growth and Vermont Natural Resource Council to prevent construction an oversized Walmart retail store on prime agricultural land just north of I-89 in the Town of St. Albans, Vermont.