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.

LIVE BY THE WAL… DIE BY THE WAL… Some 20 years ago I was editor of a magazine that covered the automotive aftermarket and regularly talked to people at both Exide and Johnson Controls about shifts in the battery markets. Back then the, as I called them, Megachains were just emerging. Keep reading…

WHAT WALMART HAS TAUGHT ONE POLICE CHIEF… I could probably post at least two stories a day about crime inside and outside of Walmarts, but there”s little point because the crime doesn”t have much to do with Walmart, the crime has to do with a large store, with a large parking lot and a lot of people buying stuff. Keep reading…

BAMBOO DOES SOUND NATURALER… Walmart is only one of 78 retailers to recieve a warning from the Federal Trade Commission about mislabeling products, but I have to wonder if the sales of the other 77 companies combined even come close to Walmart”s annual figures. Keep reading…

GO AHEAD… SUE… Walmart may be the No. 1 Business Poster Child for the arguments against tort reform in the United States. Corporations campaign for tort reform because they claim they”re suffering. Walmart, of course, is a suit magnet, getting sued left and right. Keep reading…

JUST A CASUALTY OF SPENDING LESS… When I worked the after-school shift at Hart”s, we shifted gears 30 minutes before closing to front shelves (pull products to the front of the shelf and fill empty spaces) and sweep the floor. This was not a nice-to-do, it was a must-do. Keep reading…

WONKO THE SANE WAS RIGHT… It has taken me more than 12 hours to calm down from an experience last evening that has left me nearly ready to follow the example of Wonko The Sane and just walk away, accept that the World has gone crazy and start building my own asylum. Keep reading…

CUTTING 13,000 SO-CALLED JOBS… Lest someone assume that I, and The Onion, are mocking the now unemployed people who used to work for the Walmart corporation, read carefully. Mocking satire can be tricky to write, but the people at The Onion have a long history of getting it right. Keep reading…

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