Site Fight Of The Week: Tracy, CA
82,000 square feet: it’s a lot of room, and it might mean a lot of trouble to the environment and local businesses in Tracy.
Wal-Mart is looking to tack an extra 82,000 square feet onto its already existing 125,000 square foot store in the mid-sized California town just east of the Bay Area. Most ominously for local businesses, the proposed expansion includes 30,000 square feet of grocery space, which looks to threaten long-time Tracy grocery stores Save-Mart and Safeway, both of which are largely unionized and bring higher-wage and jobs to Tracy.
On top of that, the new supercenter looks to bring more crime, traffic, noise and water pollution to Grant Line Road - and possibly violates the California Environmental Quality Act.
The Lodi News tells us a little about the opposition effort in Tracy:
The law firm of Herum, Crabtree and Brown of Stockton, on behalf of the group Tracy First, appealed that decision to the City Council. Steve Herum has successfully fought a Wal-Mart store in Lodi on behalf of a group called Lodi First.
Herum’s firm says the planned Tracy Supercenter, as Wal-Mart calls its stores that sell groceries, “violates state planning and zoning laws” and the California Environmental Quality Act.
After a heated council meeting on the subject of the expansion, the City Council decided to send the matter back to staff and postpone the vote until August 5th - leaving residents plenty of time to let the Council know how they feel.
TAKE ACTION NOW!
If you live in the area, email the Tracy City Council and let them know that you value your local businesses and that 125,000 square of Wal-Mart Supercenter is more than enough.
Posted by Eric Bull on Thursday, July 03, 2008







COMMENTS
tell me folks where the hell was the same noise.traffic,public safety and livability garbage and etc when all the other ufcw union grocery stores,strip malls and etc that bring just as much traffic,noise and etc were built?tell me why you only raise these issues when wm wants to build but no one else?where was the same we dont want it because it will hurt all the others crap when everything else was built?where was the same fuss always used on wm?can someone please honestly answer that honestly?
m att hew vantress in gresham,oregon
Friday, July 04 at 02:35 AM
where was the same environmental bs raised when everything else in the area was built?
m att hew vantress in gresham,oregon
Friday, July 04 at 02:36 AM
...tell me why you only raise these issues when wm wants to build...(?)
Read my lips, matthew...this is an ANTI Wal-Mart site! Not an anti everybody else site.
Ken V in Texas
Saturday, July 05 at 06:58 PM
hey ass hole ken i know what the hell this site is.if i want to bash your favorite stores like kroger selling all that tainted meat i will.if you dont like it piss on you.funny you dont want to hold kroger accountable for putting peoples lives at risk by selling all that tainted meat,but if that was walmart you would be screaming bloody murder.funny you area s quiet as can be with kroger selling tainted meat.you are a selfish spoiled hypocrite pal.you only bitch and moan when wm does something bad or is accused of it,but if your favorite stores do the same thing you have no problem with it proving my point.
m att hew vantress in gresham,oregon
Sunday, July 06 at 04:15 AM
I have an axe to grind with Walmart*. You have an axe to grind with Kroger. I grind my axe at the Walmart* axe-grinding site. You should grind your axe at the Kroger axe-grinding site. Plain enough for you?
you are a selfish spoiled hypocrite pal.
No time to argue, Matty old boy, I’m flying my
Lear jet up to Nova Scotia
To see the total eclipse of the sun.
Ken V in Texas
Sunday, July 06 at 05:55 AM
you are a total a hole ken and your shit does stink pal.i can say whatever i want.freedom of speech its in the u.s. constitution buddy.i will rip kroger and your favorite stores on here and will continue to do so and i dont care what you think or what site this is.quit your bitching ken because no matter how much bitching you do wm aint going away or out of business so give it up.i notice kenny boy you have no comment on your favorite kroger chain selling all that tainted meat and putting peoples lives at risk huh?figures you just proved my point about what hypocrites all you wm haters are.keep it up ken everytime you open your mouth you prove my point even further.i know what site i am on ken so shut up.
m att hew vantress in gresham,oregon
Monday, July 07 at 07:15 AM
Is WalMatt related to someone on the media team? What other rational explanation is there?
ddrb in
Monday, July 07 at 07:32 AM
...tell me why you only raise these issues when wm wants to build...(?)
That reads like ‘bitching’ to me, Matty. (or at least whining..:o)
Ken V in Texas
Monday, July 07 at 03:55 PM
no ken i am asking you a question that you refuse to answer.why dont you raise the same stink when all of your favorite stores do the same things you nitpick wm for and why dont you hold your favorite stores to the high standards you hold wm to?also ken tell me why you and your buddy ddrb are so quiet and have nothing to say on kroger selling all that tainted meat and putting peoples lives at risk?no ddrb i am not related to anyone on wms board.this is my own personal opinions i post on here.
m att hew vantress in gresham,oregon
Tuesday, July 08 at 04:14 AM
WalMatt: Why aren’t YOU raising the same stink on the websites of the OTHER store ?Have they kicked you off? Does David Nassar think the donations to this site are well served with your repetitive, repulsive posts?
ddrb in
Tuesday, July 08 at 10:43 AM
Does David Nassar think the donations to this site are well served with your repetitive, repulsive posts?
Is that anything like “Do UFCW/SEIU members think their union dues are well-served with this constant nonsense?”
I would be curious to hear your take on that other leading store chain selling tainted meat…
bbrd in
Tuesday, July 08 at 01:00 PM
If you type ‘tainted meat’ into the SEARCH WAL-MART WATCH box in the upper right-hand corner of this page, you will get all the reading material you need. Wal-Mart’s long and rancid history.
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man’s lawful prey. ~ John Ruskin
Ken V in Texas
Tuesday, July 08 at 04:31 PM
Ken V: Since bb professes to KNOW what people think,why bother asking at all?
ddrb in
Tuesday, July 08 at 04:42 PM
you proved my point ken you cant answer an honest simple question.you refuse to hold kroger one of your favorites to the same high standards you hold wm to.you have no problem with kroger intentionally selling tainte meat and putting peoples lives at risk,but jump down wms throat for doing the same thing.no ddrb i have not been kicked off kroger and other websites.nassar spouts bs on here unlike me.iam a former k-mart employee and ufcw union grocey worker and union memeber.how many of you including mr nassar and etc can say that and have the work exp i have?
m att hew vantress in gresham,oregon
Wednesday, July 09 at 05:12 AM
...why bother asking at all?
Sounds like a Double-D cop-out, to me!
bbrd in
Wednesday, July 09 at 02:10 PM
If you type ‘tainted meat’ into the SEARCH WAL-MART WATCH box in the upper right-hand corner of this page...
My condolences to whoever died and made you moderator.
bbrd in
Wednesday, July 09 at 02:12 PM
My jealousy of Ken has got the better of me again. If only anything I ever had to say here was better than the greatness of m att hew vantress. I have died the death and have not even condolences from the pro-Walmart ‘tainted meat’ that sits across the room from me here at propaganda central in Bentonville.
bbrd in
Thursday, July 10 at 05:57 AM
ENVY rhymes with Ken V .......................
ddrb in
Thursday, July 10 at 09:32 AM
Quit pickin’ on bb. He’s the best Wal-Mart money can buy.
For years I kept waiting for ‘professional’ Wal-Mart bloggers to appear and take us (anti Wal-Marters) down! I couldn’t figure why they didn’t show up here (WalMartWatch) since it is one of the most active anti Wal-Mart blogs.
Then it occurred to me...they’re already here! Unfortunately they are so inneffectual, who noticed?
Your obsession with getting personal... ~ me
My obsession?? Ha—that’s rich! ~ bbrd
Ken V in Texas
Saturday, July 12 at 06:33 PM
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