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When I stopped by on Tuesday, the lobby was full with several dogs and cats being dropped off for the holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple named Dan and Becky were leaving their golden retrievers, Kodiak and Maia, while they went to visit family in Seattle. The dogs were on a return visit and seemed excited to be back; Kodiak obligingly barked into my microphone, and then less obligingly squatted and left a puddle in a corner of the lobby. \"No problem. It happens,\" said the woman who'd come to take the dogs to their temporary home as she wiped it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wag Hotel's director of client services Jose Gonzalez says Thanksgiving is peak time. Right now both Wag Hotel locations are full -- and have been so since last weekend. 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Others say that the company retaliates against them if they speak out to criticize it. That was a theme of the strike that hit a Wal-Mart store reopening Nov. 2 after a closure in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/11/02/protests-mar-walmart-supercenters-re-opening-in-richmond/\">Richmond Confidential \u003c/a>had the story:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Shoppers were greeted by placard-wielding protesters, carrying signs reading “Stand Up, Live Better, Stop Retaliation” and “Stop Trying to Silence Us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protesters were a combination of Walmart associates and members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union and the Organization United for Respect at Walmart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misty Tanner, a longtime Walmart employee, transferred to the store four months ago to work on the remodel. She said the project manager has threatened and intimidated employees.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And on Nov. 14, San Leandro workers began by setting up an impromptu memorial to a deceased colleague inside the store, then held a rally outside before returning to work, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/11/19/18725975.php\">IndyBay\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These actions followed similar protests in other parts of the country, IndyBay reports:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>...in September, 38 warehouse workers who move Walmart goods went on strike in Elwood, Illinois for three weeks. Elwood is the site of Walmart’s largest North American distribution center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This strike, by a small but strategic group of workers, cost the company millions of dollars. The strikers won immediate improvements on some important safety issues. 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