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Slumping sales at big box retailers, including negative “same store sales” growth at Home Depot, have emboldened companies like Wal-Mart and Home Depot to try

Here’s a Wal-Mart factoid for you: According to the Wal-Mart Associate Handbook “a full-time associate is one who regularly works at least 28 hours per

You are what you tweet. And blog. And post. It’s part of your social genome. According to a statement from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, he

If there is a teaching moment for economic injustice — Wal-Mart is it. This enormous corporation has been built upon the backs of the 99%

A new report from the National Priorities Project and Jobs With Justice says that the typical clerk at a Wal-Mart would have to work 312

Wal-Mart is sending off its former number 2 man without his lucrative retirement agreement. Tom Coughlin, the company’s former Vice Chairman of the Board Directors,

Blow out the candles on the cake. Better yet, blow away the whole cake! According to an article in the July 2, 2002 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,

Wal-Mart Stores has released a “Factory Certification Report” for the period March, 2003 to February, 2004. In this report, Wal-Mart admits that nearly 80% of

Wal-Mart indicated this week that the company hopes to open up to 55 new discount stores, and 230 supercenters in the fiscal year that starts

Sprawl-Busters has done its third annual scan of “available” Wal-Mart buildings, The unused buildings have been called the “empty box syndrome” by the media, and

Wal-Mart stores: now you see them, now you don’t. Ever wonder who makes those horrendous decisons to locate a Wal-Mart on residential land, or one

The once limitless internet is growing tighter. This week Wal-Mart and America On Line jointly announced a “wide-ranging strategic alliance” to provide internet users with

As reported earlier this week, Wal-Mart pulled out all the stops in a big-ticket advertising campaign in 15 newspapers across California. The media splash was

The largest corporate takeover of Medicare begins today, as millions of Medicare beneficiaries begin coverage under the newly-privatized Medicare Part D drug plan. For those

Last November, Vanity Fair and 60 Minutes published a telephone poll which surveyed a random sample of 1,097 Americans. When given a choice of 5

Sometimes the cover up is worse than the crime itself. This week’s revelations of Wal-Mart’s alleged attempts to hide widespread bribery of Mexican officials is

Want to buy an empty Wal-Mart? Want to buy 333 empty Wal-Marts? There’s all that — and more — on the marketplace today, according to

Sprawl-Busters today announced that it hopes to generate opposition to at least 25% of the Wal-Mart superstores that the company announced it wants to build

In less than a month, Wal-Mart will celebrate a Golden Anniversary at its annual shareholder’s bash at Bud Walton Arena on the campus of the

One thing you can say about Wal-Mart chain stores: at every link in the chain, someone is being exploited, from head to tail. The public

An updated research report from the group Demos says that Wal-Mart could raise the wage of its workers and benefit the company at the same

As Wal-Mart stock continues to drop, and Wal-Mart’s CEO’s salary continues to drop, the company is now ensnared in yet another headline controversy, this time

On August 20, 2011, Sprawl-Busters predicted on The Huffington Post that growth in American Wal-Mart supserstore would slow to a crawl. “No longer a company

A task force set up by President George Bush says we can’t afford to sustain Social Security, yet the federal government is now shoveling tax

What do comedians George Carlin and Jon Stewart have in common? They can both boast now that they have been “banned in Bentonville” by the

Attention Wal-Mart shoppers! The company has disclosed the discomforting news that it has found union workers have penetrated supercenter premises — even to “prohibited areas”

Wal-Mart, the company that spends millions of dollars in TV ads that smile at you — has never stinted on self-congratulatory press releases. The latest

On February 27, 2006, Wal-Mart proudly announced that “civil right pioneer” Andrew Young had signed on as “national Steering Committee Chairman” of a new corporate

Every February, Sprawl-Busters does a national scan of Wal-Mart’s “dark stores.” These are buildings that Wal-Mart says are avaialble for rent or lease. Like a

Thank you America for not doing your holiday shopping at Wal-Mart! There was “bad news” from Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville this week. Wal-Mart has lowered

In a case that Wal-Mart must wish would go away quickly, a second ousted executive has asked federal officials to consider him a “whistleblower” because

News that Wal-Mart soon will be removing its “people greeters” from the mouth of every store across America was ironic given how hard it was

“Wal-Mart Airlines is now boarding passengers in rows 16 and higher?” Sound far-fetched? According to the Knight Ridder News Service, Wal-Mart is now testing on

Time magazine’s January 14th issue reports that Wal-Mart “would like to offer low-cost checking and savings accounts and other financial services” in its stores. To