Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Walmart Confirms Lease of Coit/Arapaho Site, Plans to Have Store Open by Fall 2014

At an ungodly hour this morning (2:38 a.m.), a member of the new but active "Stop Walmart Spanish Village" Facebook group posted the lease, signed back in November, giving the Arkansas-based retail giant rights to the northwest corner of Coit and Arapaho roads for at least 20 and as many as 70 years ... More >>

In Far North Dallas, Neighbors Are Rallying to Stop a Walmart Planned for Arapaho and Coit

When I was growing up a few blocks away from the Spanish Village shopping center in Far North Dallas it was, if never booming, at least heavily trafficked. It was the site of Chuck's Hamburgers, where we'd walk for lunch when my junior high got out early for end-of-semester exams. Border's was ther ... More >>

Three Pies You Don't Want to Eat, But Really, Get Over Yourself

Editor's note: Finally, to wrap up National Pie Day, Englishman Gavin Cleaver takes a break from huffing oak smoke to tell us about some of his nation's favorite filled pastry treats. Read this and ask yourself how English cuisine ever got such a bad reputation. Custard Tart Wikipiedia (not a real ... More >>

Walmart Launches Specialty Foods Delivery Service (Not a Typo)

Walmart has launched a new online program that delivers unique, artisan and sometimes organic food to customers' doorsteps. From the press release: "For only $7 a month, including tax and shipping, subscribers receive a gift box at their doorstep filled with five to eight hand-picked taster sample ... More >>

Big Tex is Gone. There's a Hole in Our Hearts.

On this day, we lost a fried hero. This morning, Big Tex caught on fire at the State Fair of Texas. Twitter lit up with jokes about as quickly as Tex did. I guess we all grieve differently. See also: Big Tex Burned Down Today at the State Fair Alice Laussade's exclusive interview with Big Tex We'd ... More >>

Wal-Mart Wins Texas Lawsuit Over Gender Discrimination

Nearly a year and a half since the U.S. Supreme Court tossed a class action lawsuit filed by some 1.5 million female Wal-Mart employees who say they hit a corporate glass ceiling, the plaintiffs hit a brick wall in Texas. Because the court ruled the women of Wal-Mart could not sue as a class, a num ... More >>

Wal-Mart Associates in Dallas Walk Off Job, Protest Suckiness of Working at Wal-Mart

Last week, workers at Wal-Mart stores in Southern California walked off the job in what was, per Salon, the first multi-store strike in the retail giant's history. Today, the protest made its way to Dallas. Workers at nine area Wal-Mart stores walked off the job this morning to demand higher wages ... More >>

Lawsuit Calls Barking Dog Avi Adelman a "Neighborhood Terrorist" in Wal-Mart Fight

Neighborhood blogger and professional shit-disturber Avi Adelman is not happy with the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market being built at the former site of Whole Foods on Greenville Avenue, right across the street from his house. He was even less happy when the retailer put up ridiculously bright lights i ... More >>

There Will Be a Bloodied, 10-Foot-Tall Pig at Walmart Today. Just So You Know.

Speaking of pork, the nonprofit, one might say PETA-like, organization Mercy For Animals, is none to happy with where Walmart gets theirs. Which at least partially explains why the group plans to have a caged, bloody pig at the Walmart Neighborhood Market at Central and Hall Street this morning at 1 ... More >>

Dena Schlosser, the Plano Baby Chopper, is Outed then Fired from Walmart. Now What?

The moment Channel 8 reporter Teresa Woodard opened her mouth to tell viewers Dena Schlosser, the Plano baby chopper, had been seen working as a checker at Walmart, you knew Dena Schlosser was already no longer working at Walmart. Of course they fired her before the story ever hit the air. What cho ... More >>

City Looking to Kick In $2 Million Toward Development Around Walmart on Ledbetter

​Word of warning: This won't be the sole Unfair Park item of the day to feature the word "Walmart." Patience, patience. But, to begin: Remember that Walmart going in at Ledbetter and R.L. Thornton? Right, that one. Gave us the phrase "Trees do not vote" during the contentious discussion about how ... More >>

In Today's Least Surprising News Ever, Yes, a Walmart Grocery Is Coming to Lower Greenville

​Speaking of Walmart (told you) ...In the end, turns out, I didn't need Mitchell Rasansky to tell me what everyone already knew -- or guessed, anyhow. Because, as I discovered this morning, the permits were filed with the city two months ago and approved December 29. So, yes, brace yourself, Lower ... More >>

To Save the Trees, Start by Saving Poor People

​Maybe we need some context for this week's debate on Wal-Mart Stores Inc. vs. the tree canopy. After a not-very-uplifting debate yesterday including the line, "Trees do not vote," our esteemed city council voted to allow a developer to decimate a vast swath of the urban forest for a new Walma ... More >>

"Trees Do Not Vote" and Other Highlights From Contentious Council Talk About a Walmart

​Speaking of Dwaine Caraway ...The city council just voted on that Walmart Supercenter proposed for Ledbetter and R.L. Thornton, and though it ultimately passed unanimously it was no simple thing -- far from. It was quite the discussion -- heated at times, thoughtful at others. On the surface it w ... More >>

Poster Of The Week: Roxmas 6

​ Well, John Jurik's poster for Roxmas 6 certainly puts holiday cheer in perspective. After pushing through lines of screaming children (and adults) at Wal-Mart and enduring Mariah Carey's version of "All I Want For Christmas" 50 times a day, who wouldn't want to thump Santa with a shovel and put ... More >>

As City's Gas Drilling Task Force Crawls to Finish Line, a Q&A With the Woman in Charge

The most recent Dallas gas drilling task force meeting ended with mutterings of how to speed up the process of drafting drilling ordinance recommendations. Several task force members voiced concerns that they were crawling toward the finish line -- even after the task force's schedule for deliberati ... More >>

Former Head of City's Urban Forest Advisory Committee Begs CPC Not to Approve Walmart

The proposed site of a new Walmart off Ledbetter​Longtime Friends of Unfair Park will recognize the name Steve Houser: He's the former chair of the Dallas Urban Forest Advisory Committee honored by George W. Bush in '08 for his volunteer work saving the city's trees. Reason I mention him today: Th ... More >>

Walmart's One Step Closer to Making Good on Promise to Build Supercenter on Ledbetter Dr.

From next week's City Plan Commission agenda​Back in February, City Hall proudly announced that Walmart was going to build, build, build all 'round town -- "more than a dozen new projects in the city of Dallas," said the release, with a Supercenter at R.L. Thornton and Ledbetter Drive at the very ... More >>

Landmark Wal-Mart Sex Discrimination Lawuit, Version "2.0," Comes to Dallas Federal Court

Via.​It's been more than a decade since the federal suit first surfaced: Betty Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the sexual discrimination lawsuit that would eventually lead to a class-action suit and the book Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Worker's Rights at Wal-Mart, whose author ofte ... More >>

Wanted: Buffalo-Style Chicken Wings

Scott ReitzDeep fried, delicious buffalo style wings​It's a lousy obsession but the burden is mine to bear. I've loved tearing into chicken wings since I discovered them in college. A small chain originally called BW3's that's gone on to become a Chicken Wing Walmart served decently fried rend ... More >>

Boxed In, or: Once Again, From Oak Cliff, the Call for All of Dallas to "Think Small"

​Since it's Follow-Up Wednesday here, may I direct your attention to a piece Jason Roberts posted this morning on Go Oak Cliff, which is more or less a response-slash-reaction-to Schutze's piece yesterday about that Oak Cliff Walmart planned for Fort Worth Ave. Not to reopen Tuesday's still-fresh ... More >>

How Many Record Stores Do You Think Exist in the Dallas-Fort Worth Region? Really. Guess.

​Tomorrow, as you now doubt are well aware by now, is the fourth annual official Record Store Day, in which we all get together and celebrate the brick-and-mortar shops that have managed to survive through the economy and the Internet stealing all of the action.But, really, just how bad are things ... More >>

Walmart Puts Sam's Club Spot Up for Sale As It Preps Two Bachman Lake Locations

The original Northwest Highway Sam's Club​Last month, you no doubt recall, Walmart announced its $200-million expansion said to involve "more than a dozen new projects in the city of Dallas," though only a handful were announced at the time. Since then I've learned of at least one more on the to-d ... More >>

Neumann and Griggs Clash Over Gas Drilling, Walmart, Cliff Manor and Trinity Toll Road

Photos by Sam MertenTwo-term incumbent city council member Dave Neumann and political newbie Scott Griggs at last night's debate in North Oak Cliff.​Following the mayoral forum held last night at Methodist Hospital's Hitt Auditorium, District 3 city council candidate Scott Griggs and incumbent ... More >>

Some Lessons Learned From Walmart's Expansion (At Least, Its Move Into Oak Cliff)

The development residents were hoping for, more or less, on the spot of Fort Worth Avenue where Walmart's expected to go​On Tuesday, you no doubt recall, the city sent word that Walmart's opening 14 new locations citywide -- among them, three in the southern sector, including on the vacant lot at ... More >>

From the Southern Sector to the Northwest, Walmart Plans $200-Million Dallas Takeover

​There is no shortage of Walmarts in and around Dallas. But City Hall sends word this afternoon: More are a-coming -- "more than a dozen new projects in the city of Dallas," per the release that follows, including three in the southern sector and one across the street from Bachman Lake, as I promi ... More >>

Dallas-FW, Briefly a Top-Five Contender in $1.5-Mil Food Bank Challenge, Is Falling Fast

​Two weeks ago today, Mayors Tom Leppert, Mike Moncrief and Robert Cluck asked locals to "like" Walmart's Fighting Hunger Together campaign, which is doling out $1.5 million to food banks nationwide -- $1 million to the top Facebook vote-getter, and $100,000 each to the next five highest-ranking c ... More >>

Dallas, FW and Arlington Mayors Ask Locals to "Like" Food Bank Campaign, Lest Area Lose Out

​Meant to get to this a few days ago, when a Friend of Unfair Park directed our attention to Walmart's Fighting Hunger Together website. Long story short: Walmart, in conjunction with the Food Research and Action Center, is doling out $1.5 million to food banks nationwide. But it's handing out the ... More >>

Walmart Needs Friends. Hungry Need Food. So...

​With 22 days left for online voting, Dallas is trailing the leader in a Walmart-sponsored contest for food bank funding by more than 11,000 votes. Walmart's "Fighting Hunger Together" program pits the nation's 100 metropolitan areas with the highest rates of food hardship against one another ... More >>

At N. Central and Walnut Hill, Plans to Replace Moonscape with "First-Class Development"

Patrick Michels​Perhaps you've heard: One week ago today, a real estate holdings company controlled by Stan Kroenke -- owner of the St. Louis Rams, Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche and husband of Wal-Mart heiress Ann Walton -- purchased the moonscape at Walnut Hill Lane and N. Central Express ... More >>

How Dallas Gained After the Swiss Immigrated to Mexico and Began Cooking

Grupo Sanborns is a large department store, pharmacy, retail and restaurant chain. Headquartered in Mexico City and employing some 18,000 workers, Sanborns was founded in 1903 by California immigrants Walter and Frank Sanborn, who also established the country's first soda fountain. Think Wal-Mart ... More >>

Cowboys Stadium: Um, Where's the Star?

​I'll have a full review of this joint's football debut Monday, but for now I've seen $35 parking at Wal-Mart (good googly moogly), new Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders' uniforms (so long, white short shorts) and nary a blue star at midfield. Weird.

At Citrus Bistro, Good Things Come from Big Packages

Have knife; will sue

When Black Friday Comes, I'll Collect Everything I'm Owed

For a brief moment, we considered getting up early to check out the Black Friday scene -- and Steely Dan's as far as we got. (And, for those in actual need of actual information, this compendium of online sales, sales, sales!) But former Observer-er Ann Zimmerman, now at The Wall Street Journal, has ... More >>

Close to the Madding Crowd

The bleakest of Black Fridays at a New York Wal-Mart, where a temporary employee was trampled to death by bargain-hunters who didn't so much as slow down while rescue workers tried to save the man's life. Not so savage a scene at a Dallas Best Buy, where the Associated Press set up shop to meet and ... More >>

Lucky Day

Buckets of Fun

In T3's Popcorn, salty satire; D-FW critics pepper actors with awards

Flip Benham: Loves God, Hates Most Everyone Else

Buy the Friendly Skies

...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Blood Brothers

Spreading the Blame

Shell Game

Over the Hedge wants you to feel bad about what it's selling, which is everything

SuperSore

The sins of Wal-Mart get the documentary treatment

Chez Wal-Mart

The wacky and wonderful objects of Twang show a rethinking of standardization

Best Place to Buy a Guitar

Guitar Center

Best Computer Store

Micro Center

Copycat

Check out the wine program at Sonoma, but you should probably eat before you go

Hayseed Politics

If Wal-Mart wants zoning in this burg, it needs to buy a new suit

Natalie good

A top-notch cast compensates for dubious credibility in Where the Heart Is