Posted on 30 January 2008. Tags: Alice Walton, China, Class Warfare, Lee Scott, Recession, Wal-Mart
These days are times for the Waltons of Wal-Mart to be dancing in the streets of Bentonville, Arkansas. After all, the economy is tanking and millions of people are heading for a painful few years, people are losing their homes, gasoline prices are on the rise, health care is continuing to evaporate–these are precisely […]
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Posted on 30 January 2008. Tags: Alice Walton, China, Class Warfare, Lee Scott, Recession, Wal-Mart
These days are times for the Waltons of Wal-Mart to be dancing in the streets of Bentonville, Arkansas. After all, the economy is tanking and millions of people are heading for a painful few years, people are losing their homes, gasoline prices are on the rise, health care is continuing to evaporate–these are precisely […]
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Posted on 22 May 2005. Tags: Alice Walton, Labor, United Airlines, Wal-Mart
My occassional clean-up of left-over stuff, just the antidote for Sunday easy reading– On the Wal-Mart Front–Good News, Bad News: The Beast has thrown in the towel, pretty quickly I might add, on the on-line DVD rental biz. Netflix’s head start in the business tailor-made for couch potatoes and parents with no baby sitters was […]
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Posted on 13 May 2005. Tags: Alice Walton, Labor, Paul Krugman, Wal-Mart
So, what would you do if you were, along with your mommy, the richest woman in the world, but your workers either can’t afford health insurance or have to pay through the nose to get pathetic insurance and, as a matter of policy, your CEO tells the world that your company doesn’t expect its pay […]
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