Quote:\"While Wal-Mart has turned to the ballot in a number of cities and towns to win the right to build its giant emporiums, the Inglewood initiative is significantly different. The proposal would essentially exempt Wal-Mart from all of Inglewood's planning, zoning and environmental regulations, creating a city-within-a-city subject only to its own rules. Wal-Mart has hired an advertising and public relations firm to market the initiative and is spending more than $1 million to support the measure, known as initiative 04-A.
And they say that Inglewood will be a test case. If the initiative succeeds here, they say, it will become a model for Wal-Mart sovereignty across the nation and around the globe.\"

Quote:Originally posted by madmick
Watchdogs Push for RFID Laws

Quote:The companies argue that consumers with active RFID tags on their products can return those goods without a receipt. P&G's Hughes also said that active tags and shoppers' personal information could speed recalls of contaminated and defective products.

Quote:Originally posted by header
I like having those little cards for all the grocery stores. Somewhere in the FBI some pencil pusher is checking up on me to see that I'm buying apple juice, prunes and a plunger at 3am.