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.

SOL PRICE, 1916-2009… Why do we at The Writing On The Wal care about Sol Price? Because Price was the genius (or possibly evil genius, given history) that gave us the big-box super store. Before there was a Walmart or Sam”s Club, there was Fed-Mart and Price Clubs. Keep reading…

CHICAGO”S MAYOR DALEY IS FRUSTRATED… I”ve been following the Walmart-in-Chicago saga now for more than three years. Mayor Richard Daley (not That Daley, his son, Richard M. Daley) wants Walmarts built in Chicago, but the city”s aldermen are not willing to take a bullet for their mayor. Keep reading…

ENVISION YOUR WALMART HERE… Well, it looks like Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley”s hopes to garner “the backing of aldermen so he can”t be criticized by the media for acting unilaterally,” isn”t working out so well. The Chicago Smut Sun Times says he damned both ways. Keep reading…

AT LEAST HE DOESN”T HAVE TO LIVE THERE… I wrote earlier this month about changes in Walmart”s Central and South American operations and this morning I read the announcement that Eduardo Solorzano has been named president and CEO of Walmart de Mexico. Keep reading…

EVEN THE GRINCH WOULD BE ASHAMED… [Update — 20 December: As Uncle Bob noted in his comment, Walmart has issued a statement recognizing that it was overcharging for shipping to AP0/FPO addresses. Keep reading…

WALMART EXTENDS CHRISTAMAS EVE HOURS… The report from Las Vegas is that Walmart is tacking on two hours this Christmas Eve to really, really, really make sure that there isn”t a single penny left in anyone”s pocket that it has a 0.00001 percent chance of capturing that cent for its coffers. Keep reading…

WILL 2010 BE WALMART”S CHICAGO YEAR…? Chicago is recovering from its disappointment after losing the 2016 Olympics and Mayor Daley, faced with a shrinking tax and jobs base is going back to the Walmart well. I wrote about the preliminary shots earlier, but the issue is gaining momentum. Keep reading…

WALMART OFFERS NON-COMPETITORS SPACE… The story in the New York Times yesterday examines how, in a bid to gain favor in Chicago, Walmart is offering front-of-the-store space to non-competitors. This is supposed to assuage fears of economic devastation? I don”t think so. Keep reading…

SELECTIVE MEMORY IS A SURVIVAL TRAIT… One of the marvels of the human brain is its ability to selectively erase certain memories. This can be good. For instance, if women remembered, in perfect detail, every moment of pregnancy, the human race would probably have died out millennia ago. Keep reading…

MORE EVIL WALMART NEWS FROM THE BADGER… Badgers are fierce, short legged, heavy-set carnivores that will protect themselves and their young at all costs from even much larger animals such as coyotes, wolves, bears and Walmart managers. I”m really starting to like the Las Vegas variety. Keep reading…

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