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Title: Big-boxes being bashed at polls: if Wal-Mart wants to win California, the company news to rethink its strategy.(Our Views)(Wal-Mart Stores Inc.)
Author: Rick Bell
Publication: San Diego Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 12, 2004
Publisher: CBJ, L.P.
Volume: 25 Issue: 15 Page: 34(1)Distributed by Thompson Gale

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It's a familiar theme across California: Big-box retailers like Wal-Mart must plead their case at the polls.

Yet voters aren't necessarily impressed by the promises of jobs and millions of dollars to enhance public services.

Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart's April 6 rejection by voters in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood is the latest loss for mega-retail outlets. It follows on the heels of the March 2 ballot measure in North County where voters denied a proposal for a second Wal-Mart in San Marcos.