It’s been a busy week in Wally World: the Universe’s source of cheap plastic crap. On The Writing On The Wal — the blog USA Today says should be on its readers’ radar — Jonathan Rees and I continue our work dedicated to drawing back the curtain on the Bentonvile Behemoth’s corporate disinformation and other flackery.
DEBORAH SHANK: 1955-2010… Deborah Shank has died. According to the Southeast Missourian, Shank died of natural causes. Jim Shank said he was grateful for the support his family received throughout the years. “I want to thank all of the friends that came forward and helped.” Keep reading…
THE WILDERNESS IS HALLOWED GROUND TOO… People get all out of joint over a house of worship opening in Manhattan, but not enough get pissed over a Walmart next to a Civil War battlefield. 3,000 and religion v. 30,000 and shopping. Our priorities are so screwed up.
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THE POWER OF YARD SIGNS… I’m presently part of a local election campaign supporting Tim Russo in Cuyahoga County Council District Seven and yard signs are part of the battle. Putting them up and then replacing them when opponents steal them is all part of the political game. Keep reading…
THE NOT-A-WALMART-SHOPPER CREDO… While reading Zen Habits I followed a link to mnmlist blog where I found articulated a particular peeve of mine: that we are not consumers and that if we think of ourselves as consumers the corporations have won. All those people at Target? So not consumers. Keep reading…
WEIRD WALMART HAPPENINGS IN CHINA… OK, so maybe not weird, but definitely worthy of head scratching. Chinese workers are loosing fingers and hand working at foot pedal-powered equipment and a group of students and scholars is demanding that Walmart fix the problem. Huh? Keep reading…
HA! HA! FOOLED YOU…! Back in July while I was at my writer’s retreat I needed a bowl to put popcorn in. The only place to go was to the local Walmart in Spruce Pines where I bought the bowl pictured above for $1. When I washed it the first time I made an amazing discovery. Keep reading…
ANOTHER ANGLE ON RUSSIAN WALMARTS… My coverage of Walmart in Russia is perhaps the most noise about nothing. I first wrote about a Walmart invasion way back in January 2007, it has been one long bit of Macbeth’s sound and fury. Now we have a ménage à trois with Walmart, X5 and Kopeika. Keep reading…
UPDATE: CONSUMER VS. PEOPLE CITIZEN… Normally if I have an update for a story, I simply add it to the post, but last Friday I wrote about what I labeled the Not-A-Walmart-Shopper Credo and this morning I found a similar piece written by my friend Mano Singham.
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SETTING UP A WALMART WIN IN DUKES… While I, and others here, maintain a tight focus on Dukes v. Walmart, the case will almost certainly go before the Chief Justice Roberts’ version of the U.S. Supreme Court, and the players are positioning themselves for that final showdown. Keep reading…
DANG… THAT DIDN’T TAKE LONG… To hell with appeals and district courts. Walmart need to squash the Dukes bug as quickly as it can lest it actually be held responsible for its alleged reprehensible behavior in a court of law. No, Walmart believes in going right to the Supremes. Keep reading…
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