WALMART WEDNESDAY…
October 21st, 2009
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.
Please note that I have been lax over recent months in cross-posting stories from The Writing On The Wal. What follows are my 10 most recent posts there. You can read more in our archives.
BUNDLE UP… THE ECONOMY STILL SUCKS… Can you say, combo? How about supersize? Well, try bundle. That”s a strategy that Walmart is using to convince shoppers to spend more and save less (by definition, money gone from your wallet is not money saved) by creating bundles of products. Keep reading…
OH HELL FIRE, JUST LET WALMART DO IT, II… On Monday I linked to Part I of Dr. Patricia Yarberry Allen”s arguments for turning our nation”s health care over to Walmart. Yesterday she published Part II of her argument. The Just-Let-Walmart-Do-It approach didn”t get any stronger. Keep reading…
HEY BOB… YOU HIDIN” THE COUPON BOOKS…? I”ve seen Walmart coupons in flyers, in the mail and online, but I didn”t know that the company handed out coupon books, reportedly at the (gawd knows why) photo center. At least the most recent book is nothing to write home about. Keep reading…
LIVE BY WALMART… DIE BY WALMART… As the stockholders of Nutrisystem know, getting into Walmart is a very big deal for your company and your company”s financial future. But in no relationship does, or can, Walmart give a shit about its vendors, it always serves only its stockholders. Keep reading…
CELEBRATING A FIVE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY… Jonathan and I write about Walmart week in and week out, but one of the phenomenon that I”ve noticed over the years (yes years) that we”ve been doing this is how often I find posts about Walmart in blogs that have nothing to do with the Bentonvile Behemoth. Keep reading…
HOW MANY STORES…? HOW MANY HOURS…? The very brief note from the Selma, Alabama, Times Journal concerning the change in hours at a Walmart, specially as the company prepares for its most important sales season, raises several questions in my mind, not the least of which is: Keep reading…
WALMART SHAFTING SARAH PALIN… Now I recognize that Walmart executives did not sit around some conference table and nefariously plot how best to rip off the former governor of Alaska, but I find a certain perverse pleasure in knowing that that is, in some small way what is going to happen. Keep reading…
DO YOU LOVE WALMART…? Last week I wrote about the preponderance of non-Walmart-related blogs finding fault with the Bentonvile Behemoth. Yesterday I found one more, but it made me think that my sampling is probably skewed because of my prejudice. So I”m making an offer. Keep reading…
DON”T WORRY, WALMART WON”T GO CRAZY… When the left hand and the right hand don”t talk to each other, unintended consequences arise. Last week Walmart instituted a price war with Amazon that is shaking publishing. Price wars scare investors because reduced revenues mean reduced dividends. Keep reading…
FOREIGN STUDENTS BUSSED TO WALMART… Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, was known during my Ohio University days as the seat of all-things Greek and Preppy, the city of pink and lime green Izod sweaters, duck shoes and circle pins and the home of Mandy Pepperidge, Greg Marmalard, Babs Jansen and… Keep reading…
GOOD ON YOU, WALMART… I really do like writing about good Walmart news and I was surprised to find that Walmart was on the side of Al Sharpton and his organization the National Action Network in protests resulting by statements made by radio entertainer Rush Limbaugh. Keep reading…
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