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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 something more sinister at Walmart. We here at Wake Up Walmart get emails from customers regularly complaining about price irregularities at Walmart. We also hear similar stories from our friends over at The Consumerist. It seems that Walmart has made it a habit of listing products for one price on the floor, and ringing it up for an entirely different price at the register, and that’s not even getting in to the pricing irregularities between stores in the same area. This image from Fail Blog certainly is funny, but it’s also disturbing.

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 a period of intense criticism and controversy, only to strengthen its grip on the global market.” And it went even further than that.

Sure, the producers gave Mike Duke and Doug McMillan their fair share of air time to give the usual Wal-Mart spin. But reporter David Faber never waited too long to ask hard questions about wages and working conditions. Even more importantly, the documentary gave a ton of airtime to Wal-Mart critics like worker Eugene Hart from Miami (who you might remember from this video), Meghan Scott of Wake Up Wal-Mart and local activist Steve Krulick - who is fighting a Wal-Mart store in his hometown of Ellenville, New York.

There were plenty of great moments throughout, but a personal favorite came after Faber prodded Doug McMillan about the Wal-Mart family atmosphere. McMillan proceed to tell what at first appeared to be a heartwarming story about when he was initially asked by the company to move to a role in Wal-Mart International, and went to consult the then-CEO about the major hesitations he had about what the move would do to his family and so forth. How did Lee Scott respond? According to McMillan he chuckled and informed him that he had no choice and that “the company” would be the only one choosing his career.

Charming story to tell on national TV Doug! We’re sure the PR team is proud - that really went a long way to humanize the company.

But don’t take our word for it - if you have time tune it and watch yourself. There’s more information at walmart.cnbc.com - and the remaining showtimes are as follows:

Friday, September 25th 9p ET

Saturday, September 26th 7p ET

Sunday, September 27th 8p | 10:30p ET

Thursday, October 1st 8:30p ET

Sunday, October 4th 8p ET

Monday, October 5th 9p ET

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We’ve received many, many emails and submissions from Wal-Mart employees over the past few years. And even more have gone to our Wal-Mart Speak Out site to share their stories. It’s much more infrequent that we come across an industry professional that deals with Wal-Mart employees on a regular basis, but in today’s Baltimore Sun that’s exactly what we found. It’s a letter from a doctor, and we’ll let it stand on its own merits.

Wal-Mart is an image conscious opportunist. I have several Wal-Mart employees as my patients. I can in all honesty declare that Wal-Mart, a wealthy corporation, for years got away with providing its employees no health care coverage at all or the type of coverage from which doctors could barely eke out payments.

Out of pocket expenses for patients are outrageous with this coverage. Hand me a Wal-Mart health insurance card, and I will let out a spontaneous sigh of exasperation because I know from experience what lies ahead is a runaround for meager compensation after I have delivered all the services.

You say Wal-Mart has obtained religion and is behind Obama’s health plan? Will there be a richer bounty on my plate now for tending to my overworked and underpaid Wal-Mart flock tenderly? Somehow I doubt my sighs of exasperation will cease with this new miracle under way in the health care sector.

A fed up doc

Wal-Mart stingy with health benefits [Baltimore Sun]