Okay, it seems some in this room are missing the point:

Wal-Mart has low wages because many people in retail are just too scared to ask for a raise. Retail is like any other job. If you are hard working and assertive, you learn your value. You go in, ask your boss for a raise and guess what? A lot of times you get one. Sure it might be from 6 bucks an hour to 6.50, but assertive people make it to management, and Wal-Mart managers, although worked very hard, tend to make more than their colleagues from other stores.
To me, it seems the ones that are doing the snookering are the leaders of Inglewood. How in the world can you turn down such a huge tax base? And if they really are so evil and such a bad place to work, well don't work there. Take their tax money and drive them out.
And I understand it is necesarry to go through certain steps and do certain studies on the effects of the local environment. But can you blame them for wanting to curtail the process? A good example of how out of hand some of the regulations is the following: companies can get fined by OSHA for not properly labeling a bottle of rubbing alcohol.
What strikes me as so ironic is economically depressed towns around the country such as Inglewood have for years been decrying the lack of interest larger companies have had in building stores in such neighborhoods. Now that they are willing, it's as though leadership, usually heavily influenced by fledgling retailer and food handling unions, are shunning the larger companies. This has happened in Chicago recently. As a former Chicagoan, this baffles me. You can go ahead and give the finger to Wal-Mart in this instance. But what is the city of Inglewood going to do when other companies start giving you the finger back? But of course, the city council of Inglewood and the Unions know what is best. For themselves, that is.