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.

PATIENTS WELL ENOUGH TO SHOP…? Jonathan has been all over the Swine Flu and Walmart employees, but this afternoon I came across an interesting story up in Senator Olympia Snowe”s state of Maine where Walmart is opening in-store health clinics. Keep reading…

WAIT…! AREN”T THEY WALMART SHOPPERS…? The principle danger of renting is that the land owner rightly gets to decide, within zoning laws, what is the most profitable use of their land. Case in point: the residents of the Sunshine Village mobile home park are getting the boot to make room for a Walmart. Keep reading…

LIKE A SCENE FROM HITCHCOCK”S THE BIRDS… I know what it is like to have a creepy crowd of shoppers hovering over your shoulder on Christmas eve. I know how they smell blood in the water when they see you walking toward a stack of toys with the price gun in your hand.
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THERE IS A POETIC JUSTICE IN THIS… First, as the flu season approached there was concern that Walmart shoppers would be at risk for the H1N1 flu virus. Now, with winter nearly here and only the ultra rich enjoying the jobless recovery, Walmart shoppers may face another reality: the homeless.
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