Jan 24 - Pictures from Safeway Direct Actions

What is the location of the nearest Walmart to San Francisco? I know one is planned for Richmond's Hilltop Mall.
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues/2003-09-17/cityofwarts.html/1/index.html

Safeway still has a lot of profits. Its food prices keep rising while the % paid to farmers has remained at the 1960s crop price level. But Walmart, already at 8% of all nationwide non-auto, non-restaurant sales, is expanding into Superwalmarts with grocery stores, and they aim to get 25% of all grocery sales. They pay their workers $6-7 with no opportunity for advancement after many years of work. See this story in the NY Times magazine about a woman with a 2 year college degree and a great work ethic who lost her house (which costed under $50,000) and had to fall on state assistance due to working at Walmart (this will become a pay-for article in a couple weeks). Walmart institutionalizes the idea that their workers should apply for state medical care assistance, and this is why they win the price bidding wars, and soon all the million Walmart employees and millions of poor truckers and Telephone workers and service workers nationwide are forced to go there because they earn so little, and Walmart builds even more stores.

Here is another article below about how Walmart actually locks in their employees and no one inside has a key until people come at 6am to let them out, and so people who break their legs with equipment or suffer asthma attacks aren't let out. Also, workers have to clock out when they reach 40 hours for the week at 1am, and then sit around until 6am when they are let out.
http://roseba.forclark.com/comments/2004/1/18/112615/978/0/post

Anyway, clearly the Walmart workers need to unionize and they need our help? What can we do when this Richmond Walmart appears, and at any Walmarts in the suburbs of the southbay? There is a Supertarget going in by the Racetrack at the Albany/Berkeley border.