Working Life

  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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    I have to give Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott credit: he knows how to run an offensive campaign. I mean that in two ways. Offensive in the sense that he is refuses to lay back and absorb beating after beating, and is taking his campaign right to his critics and to the public. And offensive […]

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    I have to give Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott credit: he knows how to run an offensive campaign. I mean that in two ways. Offensive in the sense that he is refuses to lay back and absorb beating after beating, and is taking his campaign right to his critics and to the public. And offensive […]

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    If the term "greenwash" hasn’t been given its own entry in the dictionary yet, let me propose that, when it does, it is linked directly to the word "Wal-Mart". For those not yet familiar with the term,  "greenwashing" occurs when a company pretends to be environmentally progressive yet is quite misleading about its true […]

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    If the term "greenwash" hasn’t been given its own entry in the dictionary yet, let me propose that, when it does, it is linked directly to the word "Wal-Mart". For those not yet familiar with the term,  "greenwashing" occurs when a company pretends to be environmentally progressive yet is quite misleading about its true […]

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    Back in October, I wrote about the Beast of Bentonville’s propensity to figure out all sorts of dodges around paying taxes. Don’t you love it–Wal-Mart talks about being part of the community but only believes that its obligations to a community involve how that community can fatten its bottom line, which also means trying […]

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    Back in October, I wrote about the Beast of Bentonville’s propensity to figure out all sorts of dodges around paying taxes. Don’t you love it–Wal-Mart talks about being part of the community but only believes that its obligations to a community involve how that community can fatten its bottom line, which also means trying […]

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    Yesterday, I mentioned that Wal-Mart will never give up its power to shape the country to its own maniacal and destructive vision (that would be a country where people flood Wal-Mart because its prices are low and that’s the only place people can afford to shop since they can’t make enough money on Wal-Mart-like […]

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    Yesterday, I mentioned that Wal-Mart will never give up its power to shape the country to its own maniacal and destructive vision (that would be a country where people flood Wal-Mart because its prices are low and that’s the only place people can afford to shop since they can’t make enough money on Wal-Mart-like […]

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    Juxtaposed with the rhetoric about changing the political culture is this nugget from the AP: Wal-Mart’s message to America is "Save money. Live better." Its motto in Washington might best be summed up another way: Spend more. Lobby harder. The world’s largest retailer spent nearly $1.8 million in the first six months of 2007 […]

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