Wal-Mart apologized for equating a zoning ordinance with Nazi book-burners. The retail giant ran an ad in the May 8 Arizona Daily Sun that likened a ballot proposal in Flagstaff that would stop the local Wal-Mart outlet from adding a grocery to a 1933 photo of Nazi book burners.
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