Tag: Walmart
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Working Poor 1, Anti-Wal-Mart Coalition 0
Defeating Global Poverty (Dave Richards): Working Poor 1, Anti-Wal-Mart Coalition 0 A month ago, Wal-Mart announced that it was finally entering the financial services business. I say, finally, because an unlikely group of anti-Wal-Mart collaborators … big banks threatened by Wal-Mart's commitment to low-cost financial services and the traditional anti-Wal-Mart folks (populist politicians, union organizers…
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The opposite of Wal-Mart: Publix
The Economist: The opposite of Wal-Mart: Publix A thriving grocery chain provides a telling contrast with Wal-Mart. WITH the rise of Wal-Mart, smaller supermarkets across America have struggled to compete. But not Publix Super Markets, which recently opened its 900th store, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and is defying Wal-Mart’s market-share success in food sales. Publix is…
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Wal-Mart must pay workers $78m
From BBC News: Wal-Mart must pay workers $78m The world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, has been ordered to pay at least $78m (£42m) in compensation to workers who were forced to work during breaks. A jury in a Pennsylvania court decided that Wal-Mart broke a state law by refusing to pay staff for the extra work…
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Is Walmart a Good Thing?
Walmart has come up a few times on this blog, and as I browse other blogs, I occasionally see logos with links to sites that either oppose or defend Walmart. I admit that I have not spent considerable time digging into all the controversies surrounding the company. However, I was "Krusing" blogs yesterday when I…
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Civil rights icon tapped to defend Wal-Mart
Civil rights icon tapped to defend Wal-Mart is an interesting story about civil rights icon and former ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young becoming chairman of Working Families for Wal-Mart, a group of people " 'who understand and appreciate Wal-Mart's positive impact on the working families of America,' according to its Web site."