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Despite the fact that America is already over-built with discount stores — a fact first admitted to by Wal-Mart’s head of real estate back in

Wal-Mart loves managed news, and their idea of the marketplace of free ideas is to invite a pre-selected group of journalists to a hotel room

One of my favorite Wal-Mart associates is leaving the company. Tom Coughlin, who came up with the memorable quote: “At Wal-Mart we make dust, our

From Wal-Mart’s perspective, the best news is managed news. Wal-Mart loves news that comes out of a can. Everything is carefully scripted, so that what

Sprawl-Busters has completed its annual inventory of “available buildings” that the nation’s largest retail real estate company is hoping to unload. We have done this

After 43 years in business, the Wal-Mart corporation has discovered something it calls “ethics.” In the February issue of “Wal-Mart World”, which is an internal

Wal-Mart’s latest efforts to get out the “real facts” about the company have managed to give the nation’s most reviled retailer one more enemy: community

Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott compared his opponents to “guppies” today in an interview with the Associated Press. Scott said widespread criticism of his company is

They say the hand is faster than the eye, which is why bribes and kickbacks are so rarely witnessed in the business world, yet so

Citizen Wal-Mart announced this week it is making a $500,000 contribution to a group called Californians Against Government Run Health Care, a coalition that is

Like a giant so distended it can no longer see its feet, Wal-Mart is telling analysts this week that it plans to push more and

In a comment made on the Lehrer NewsHour this week, a Wal-Mart spokesman has estimated that 10% of Wal-Mart’s planned stores get blocked by citizen

You don’t have to lose any sleep over how Wal-Mart corporate interests are voting in the upcoming Presidential elections. Bloomberg News reports that Wal-Mart executives,

It seemed like a corporate joke when Wal-Mart responded to a Tampa, Florida size limit on retail stores by building a store just under the

This year, more than 600,000 Wal-Mart workers will take off their Smiley buttons and vests and leave the company in search for better working conditions.

A new study reported by the Business Insider says that Wal-Mart stores located in poor communities get weaker customer reviews than Wal-Mart stores in higher

Imagine winning more than $1 billion in a lottery over the next six years. That’s the good fortune that befell the 5 heirs of Sam

Wal-Mart has told CBS Marketwatch that it plans to add 160,000 “new” jobs in 2004, of which 3 out of 4 (123,000) will be “full-time”,

How strange is it that Wal-Martians would get busted for hiring aliens? Federal agents were all over Wal-Mart this week, as the government arrested on

By now the public is growing dimly aware of the fact that Wal-Mart has branched out into sundry retail ventures from gas stations and used

Wal-Mart’s tendency to short its workers their overtime hours has now made it onto the grand stage. The New York Times on June 25th published

Wal-Mart didn’t get into selling groceries in a big way until 1988, when they started swallowing up market share with their supercenters. Today, according to

What’s this? A tiny crack in the Wal? The Associated Press reported July 25th. that the Almighty Always had to lay off 100 of its

The world’s largest retailer is also the world’s largest recipient of corporate welfare. The Associated Press reported in March that the U.S. House of Representatives

Wal-Mart is supposed to be good with numbers, but they can’t count very high when it comes to tracking losing superstore battles at the local

Wal-Mart has indicated that it wants to add 230 stores to its units in the United States (165 supercenters, 40 discount stores, and 25 Sam’s

Wal-Mart is the largest private employer in America. All those hundreds of thousands of clerks and baggers can take heart in new information the company

After 12 years, Wal-Mart CEO David Glass has stepped down, to be replaced by Lee Scott, who has been the company’s COO for the past

How much money does it take to convince people that you have “low everyday prices”, or that “we sell for less”, or “the customer is

The relationship between Wal-Mart and its “associates” is based on the concept of ‘respect for the individual’. The question is: which individual? The company that

The town square in Bentonville was filled with an estimated 2,000 people wearing yellow rain slickers that said “Wal-Mart — Not in My Neighborhood”. The

After weeks of nail-biting and rampant speculation, Wal-Mart unveiled last month the name of its new retailing concept. Wal-Mart had announced earlier this summer that

Myths tend to grow larger the more frequently they are repeated. On January 2nd, CBS Marketwatch reported that “Wal-Mart, the Number 1 private sector job

On March 25, 1998 (see below) we told you about the toywars between the Teletubbies and Wal-Mart’s knock-offs, known as the Bubbly Chubbies. Wal-Mart admitted

Wal-Mart CEO David Glass is cashing in. At least, he’s selling off 200,000 shares of Wal-Mart common stock, worth roughly $9.4 million. That represents about

Fortune magazine’s Top Ten Billionaire’s Club released this week has 5 Walton family members clustered in a tie at number 4 on the list. Matriarch

To give you a sense of Wal-Mart’s unprecedented size, consider the following information, based on Fortune magazine’s 500 Biggest Corporations. Wal-Mart had revenues of $287.9

The As You Sow Foundation has sent Sprawl-Busters the following account of the group’s activity at the recent Wal-Mart Annual Meeting in Arkansas: “A shareholder

Sometimes we “outgrow” our stores, says Wal-Mart Realty. That’s the retail understatement of the year. It turns out that Wal-Mart changes stores as casually as

Call them the “working uninsured”. They are the greeters and baggers and stockboys of Wal-Mart, where “full time job” is defined at 28 hours a

The Wal-Mart corporation is like the guy who buys a huge SUV and drives it proudly into his driveway — only to find that the

Wal-Mart corporate issued a press release about a month ago, touting its “first-of-its-kind” program that will offer its employees free health coverage for such catastrophic

It’s been called the “feminization of poverty.” Many of the low wage jobs in retailing are filled by women. This week, Wal-Mart, under pressure from

As of February 1, 2002, Wal-Mart had 3,190 stores in the United States, including discount stores, supercenters, warehouse clubs, and neighborhood markets. But that’s not

The media this week carried stories of how the “poor” heirs of Sam Walton had fallen from Forbes magazine’s list of the 10 richest people

According to the Catholic News Service, church groups that hold stock in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. are pushing once again for the company to revamp its

A cashier working at Wal-Mart for $7.50 an hour should not ask for a raise. She should ask instead to be put on the Wal-Mart

This week, Wal-Mart President and CEO Mike Duke told the Arkansas Morning News, “We have a lot to be thankful for this year.” Compared to

Much of the debate over health care costs at Wal-Mart have focused on younger workers and their families. But what about those workers who actually

Only Uncle Sam employs more people in America than Mr.Sam. Wal-Mart now boasts that by next year at this time it will have one million