Well, what I meant was have they ever tried to force someone off their property? The ones I see going up are on vacant land that was for sell. If I owned a business like this I would probably have "buyers" too. In a fair way of course.
Wal-Mart often strong-arms the local gov't to force ED provisions on property it wants...
Example:
an Asian market in Denver, CO was threatened with ED if it DIDN'T sell out to WM so it could build a "badly needed" Supercenter. It's as much City of Denver's fault as anyone's though. WM defined the lots it wanted and sent Denver to do the dirty work.