September 2021

WMT SAYS ITS GOING TO STOP PAYING WORKERS A QUARTERLY BONUS, because workers prefer higher wages. But WMT’s min. wage is “still lower than what

WHITE HOUSES’ NEW WORKPLACE COVID GUIDELINES will be applied to businesses with more than 100 workers. But Home Depot says it’s “not yet requiring vaccinations

AFTER YEARS OF IGNORING ONLINE SALES, WMT NOW HAS A “DIGITAL-FIRST MINDSET”—which is great, because they’ve stopped building those “sprawlful”superstores. Now it’s just enormous warehouses.

AS AMZN’s PROFITS SOAR, LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT INCREASES TO REGULATE WAREHOUSE WORKER QUOTAS, & reduce repetitive motion injuries. Workers like canaries in the mine. California Bill

IT’S FUNNY THAT LOCAL TOWNS WILL PUSHBACK AGAINST THE LOCATION OF A FEW AMZN LOCKERS at a gas station—yet put up no resistance to a

WATCH THIS 1 MINUTE AD ABOUT CLOSING THE BILLIONAIRE’S TAX LOOPHOLE THAT WOULD BRING IN $325 B over the next decade if closed. End the

THE FOCUS OF AMZN CRITICS ON ANTI-MONOPOLY has obscured the voracious sprawl created by AMZN warehouses across the globe. Local citizen groups are fast asleep.

BEZOS TELLS AMZN INVESTORS “Amazon will be disrupted one day” and eventually “will go bankrupt.” “Bezos has been dumping roughly $1 billion worth of Amazon

DEATH IN PARADISE: This kind of headline drives Home Depot exec’s crazy. Crime at Big Box stores—this one from the Virgin Islands—is a problem the

“SURGING LUMBER COSTS had given Home Depot a big sales lift earlier this year,” but “fewer people were shopping in Home Depot stores…customer transactions, down

HURRICANE IDA LEFT 5 FEET OF WATER INSIDE NJ HOME DEPOT, 80 stranded shoppers climbed shelves, cars in lot submerged, rescue boats had to go

R.I. TOWN OFFERS AMZN A 20 YEAR PROPERTY TAX BREAK & STATE WELFARE FOR ROADWORK to build a 3.9-million sf warehouse on 200 acres of

AMZN MUSIC IS DEVELOPING “A DIGITAL RADIO-LIKE SERVICE FOR LIVE-STREAMING PERFORMANCES…& podcasts & talk radio” (!?) Alexa: play me a right wing talk radio rant…

DEAD KMART NOW AN AMZN DELIVERY STATION: “A generation of…residents did much of their shopping at the former Kmart on this site, & now the

“WMT BABY FOOD IS NOT AS HEALTHY AS IT CLAIMS TO BE, a class action lawsuit against the company says…plaintiffs claim the baby food contains

WALMART’S WAGE DECEPTION: “WMT’s U.S. AVERAGE hourly wage is now $16.40, Chief Executive John Furner said in a memo to staff.” The current HIRING wage

WMT SAYS ITS SUPPLY CHAIN WORKERS MAKE $20.37/HR. That’s an AVERAGE wage, not a STARTING wage. Order fillers still start at $18.56/hr says Indeed. Cashiers

THE NLRB HAS THREATENED TO FILE A COMPLAINT AGAINST HOME DEPOT if the company doesn’t settle its dispute with employees about wearing BLM logo on

SINCE THE END OF WW II, U.S. PRODUCTIVITY HAS SOARED, ALONG WITH WAGES OF THE TOP 1%, while workers who helped make that wealth watched

THEY CAN DELIVER HAND CREAM IN 1 DAY, BUT IT TOOK AMZN WEB SERVICES 5 MONTHS TO DISABLE AN ISIS TERRORIST WEBSITE that celebrated the

AMZN GETS MILLIONS IN PROPERTY TAX SUBSIDIES IN RETURN FOR HIRING LOCAL WORKERS. Then seeks (& gets) waivers to avoid hiring locals. “Some municipalities, desperate

SELF-DRIVING TESLA CRASHES—THIS TIME INTO A HIGHWAY PATROL CAR–of all places, in Orlando, Florida. “No one was seriously injured in the crash, though the Tesla