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GAO STUDY SHOWS WALMART & MCDONALDS HAVE MOST WORKERS ON GOVT. SUBSIDIES LIKE FOOD STAMPS & MEDICAID. Bernie Sanders, who commissioned the report, has called

HOME DEPOT NET EARNINGS IN Q3 rose 21% to $3.4 B. HD says it’s transitioning from one-time bonuses for hourly workers, to “permanent compensation enhancements”worth

WMT MUM ON HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE JOINED THE WALMART + MEMBERSHIP PLAN. “It’s really early on. We just launched this …so we don’t have

FLORIDA’S NEW MIN WAGE TAKES 6 YEARS TO REACH $15–from $10 in 2021, adding $1 each year. Workers need $15 NOW! https://www.npr.org/2020/11/18/934476124/florida-just-passed-a-15-minimum-wage-is-the-time-right-for-a-big-nationwide-hik Read more on

WALMART CONGRATULATES BIDEN in earnings call: “I want to wrap up by saying congratulations to President-elect Biden. We look forward to working with the administration

WMT CEO: “We want to do more than slow down the damage to our planet. We want to reverse that process & actually add back

WMT INTERNATIONAL CEO: “Our priority markets are clear— India, China, Mexico & Canada…We’ve recently announced the sale of our businesses in the U.K., Argentina &

WMT CEO LAUDS WORKERS: “As this challenging moment in history continues, we’ve seen the best in our associates. They keep showing up & stepping up.”

MONEY SPENT LOCALLY recirculates in the local economy at a higher rate than money you spend on the online giants liKe Amazon and Walmart. Make

AMAZON OPENS ONLINE PHARMACY IN 45 STATES. Doctors can call AMZN to order meds online. Prime members get 2-day delivery free, 5-day delivery for others.

WALMART PROFITS SOAR AS COVID 19 CASES SOAR: A FINANCIAL WINDFALL FOR THE MEGA-BILLIONAIRE WALTONS. BUT WMT STILL DOESN’T PAY ITS WORKERS $15/HR, just one-shot

SEIYU LATER, WALMART. After 12 year total ownership of Japanese supermarket chain Seiyu, WMT sold 85% interest for $1B. WMT invested >$1 B in Seiyu

AMAZON MARKETS “CARE HUB” TO HELP ELDERS AGE IN PLACE. “Alexa has become a companion for them… a new, easy way to check in on

DUE TO THE SURGE IN CORONA CASES, WMT IS LIMITING SHOPPERS TO 5 PER 1,000 SF. A 125,000 sf superstore can have 625 shoppers at

AMAZON RECENTLY ANNOUNCED FREE 1 HOUR GROCERY PICK UP FOR PRIME MEMBER ORDERS > $35 AT ALL WHOLE FOODS. Now they’re offering free Key in-garage

AFTER BEING REJECTED BY THE DEERFIELD, MA PLANNING BOARD, DOLLAR GENERAL APPEALS TO THE ZBA and gets a warm reception. The town has a 4,000

WILL TRUMP ALLOW ORACLE & WALMART TO INVEST IN TIK TOK? The deadline to ban Tik Tok Nov. 12 was blocked by the courts. India

AMAZON ACCUSED OF BREAKING ANTITRUST RULES IN EUROPE. “Data of 3rd-party sellers should not be used to the benefit of Amazon…as a competitor to these

WALMART PET CARE NOW SELLING PET INSURANCE. My 3 year old mixed breed cat would cost $242/yr. + a $350 deductible. Walmart insurance. I wouldn’t

WALMART’S GOING TO THE DOGS. 90 M OF ITS CUSTOMERS HAVE DOGS. You’d be Goofy not to hire a local dog-sitter instead of Walmart’s pet

WALMART CASHIERS STILL LOOKING FOR A SEAT. They won a $65 M lawsuit in 2019, but Walmart failed to provide cashiers with seats. Walmart “never

INFO TECH SECURITY WORKERS AT BIG COMPANIES LIKE WORKING AT HOME—& WANT TO KEEP DOING IT AFTER COVID IS GONE. 50% of IT workers surveyed

DOLLAR GENERAL REFUSES TO TAKE ‘NO’ FROM SMALL MA. TOWN. 10 years ago Deerfield voted to cap the size of retail buildings at 4,000 sf.

AMAZON ADDS 138 ACRES NEAR FT. WAYNE IN. AIRPORT TO BUILD 629,186 SF WAREHOUSE, 2 miles from its 150,000 sf delivery station. County officials expect

AMAZON FLEX DRIVERS EARN PERKS BASED ON RATINGS. “If you have a ‘Fantastic’ standing, you earn three points per delivery and 30 per block.” Hamsters

NOW THAT GIG DRIVERS FOR UBER, LYFT, DOORDASH & INSTACART CAN’T BE TREATED AS EMPLOYEES, it’s time to pass the federal GIG IS UP ACT.

VERMONT OFFICIALS SAY WALMART HAS NOT YET APPLIED FOR THE STATE’S HAZARD PAY PROGRAM, which gives bonuses of $1,200 or $2,000 to frontline retail workers.

SINCE 1980, REPUBLICANS HAVE SPOKEN ABOUT THE DANGER OF A LARGE VOTER TURNOUT: “I don’t want everybody to vote,” Paul Weyrich, conservative activist said. “As

I AM PROUD TODAY TO FLY THIS OLD FLAG, WITH ITS 48 STARS, IN HONOR OF ALL WHO WORKED TO OVERCOME MENDACITY, RACISM, HATRED OF

MARCH 30, 2020: “[Democrats] had….levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.” Trump

WALMART EXITS ARGENTINA WITH A $1 B LOSS. A long string of International failures: Germany, So.Korea, Brazil, Japan, Britain & Argentina. Forbes says WMT is

BIDEN LEADS TRUMP FOR THE WHITE HOUSE—but Trump is selling more bling than Biden on Amazon. In last month, 2M Trump product searches v. 800K

AMERICAN TECH COMPANIES LIKE GOOGLE, WALMART, FACEBOOK & AMAZON ARE SWARMING OVER INDIA’S MOBILE PAYMENT MARKET. Large banks in India are giving consumers debit cards

WALMART WORKERS 1, ROBOTS 0. Walmart is ending its 3 year use of Bossa Nova robots to scan shelves for restocking. Instead, Walmart workers called

UBER & LYFT BOUGHT THE RIGHT TO EXPLOIT DRIVERS BY NOT CLASSIFYING THEM AS EMPLOYEES IN CA. This “opens a path for the companies to

UBER, LYFT, DOORDASH, INSTACART SPENT $203M TO WIN PROP 22 IN CA. LAST NIGHT, MAKING APP-BASED DRIVERS CONTRACTORS NOT EMPLOYEES. Overturns state law & court

31% OF CONSUMERS’ PAYCHECK GOES TO RETAIL: 18% furnishings, electronics, clothing & sporting goods; 8% food, beverages; 5% health & beauty care. AMZN is beating

I’M NOT VOTING TOMORROW—- because I voted weeks ago. I had 228,767 covid reasons to vote against Trump. White Sharks are known as “Apex Predators,”because

WALMART TESTS FUTURE TECH AT 4 STORES to serve store shoppers & “flex” to be fulfillment centers for online shoppers. Their “contact-free checkout experience” Amazon

COVID HAS CREATED A WINDFALL FOR AMAZON—but analyst says “Amazon is losing control of the customer experience…(which) is going downhill…it’s more efficient to go directly

AMZN WILL LIKELY BE THE FIRST COMPANY TO GENERATE $1 T IN ANNUAL REVENUES…by 2030. With Amazon, we get a unique business mix…consumer staples to

WALMART TELLS TIME MAG: “We simply won’t be here if we don’t take care of the very things that allow us to exist: our associates,