Archive for October, 2009
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
Groups File Suit Against Walmart Over Wilderness Site
Activists have placed a new hurdle between Walmart and its plan to desecrate the historic Wilderness Battlefield in Virginia.
Yesterday, September 23rd, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Friends of Wilderness Battlefield, and six nearby residents filed a lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Orange County. The suit challenges the August 2009 approval of Walmart’s proposal [...]
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Ohio Subsidizes Walmart with Approximately $68.5 million Each Year
Yesterday the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services released a report ranking major employers by their employees’ reliance upon various state run programs like Medicaid and food stamps. With health care reform on the front burner of the American political agenda, this is obviously a pretty important report. It shows that large companies are [...]
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Vanity Fair’s Poll and Walmart as America
In the world of Walmart news, yesterday’s big headline was “Walmart=America!!!” The strange and slightly sad (c’mon, we can do better than that!) headline comes from a new Vanity Fair/60 Minutes poll. The poll is the first in what will be a monthly series and this one included two questions about Walmart amid its rather [...]
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Friday, October 9th, 2009
Walmart’s Pricing Fail…More than just humor
Check out this picture from Fail Blog showing the same product marked with four different prices. Perhaps this was a case of the movie moving from shelf to shelf, or from bargain bin to bargain bin; or maybe it was just a run of the mill screw up, but this humorous image is indicative of [...]
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
Last night’s CNBC Wal-Mart documentary a must-watch
Every once in while the mainstream media produces an insightful and fair-handed look at Wal-Mart. Even less often, the mainstream business press produces such a piece.
But last night it happened, and Wal-Mart can’t be happy.
“The New Age of Wal-Mart” is billed as a 90 minute look “Inside the Walmart empire, revealing how the company navigated [...]
