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, Robert Feinman, Peter Sayles and I continue our work dedicated to drawing back the curtain on the Bentonvile Behemoth’s corporate disinformation and other flackery.

IS MAJOR MAJOR WORKING FOR WAL-MART…? One of our Wal-Moles emailed me this morning to let me know that a vacation policy announced nearly a year ago is now being enforced. The gist is this: work less than 34-hours/week? Vacation time? Don”t make us laugh. Keep reading…

HOW MUCH IS YOUR TIME WORTH…? The blogger at Sprawled Out wrote on Monday that one of the things they hate to see is: A picture of the mayor of your city in a newspaper next to a headline that says “Welcome Wal-Mart.” The post garnered several good comments, but one struck a cord. Keep reading…

WAL-MART”S RESPONSE TO ACTION 4… I”m thinking that someone at Action 4 needs to do a little research on the full scope of Wal-Mart”s problems dealing with product recalls. As Jonathan wrote earlier today, KGBT nailed Wal-Mart for having dangerous food products on its shelves after a recall was announced. Keep reading…

AT THE WALLY PLEX… There are sound stages on Hollywood”s back lots smaller than Bentonvile”s behemoths, so it”s no surprise that budding video talent has been sneaking cameras in at odd hours. And now for the midnight show at the Wally Plex featuring Esko33. Keep reading…

WHY HACKERS LOVE WAL-MART MONEY CARDS… The blogger at GhettoWebmaster dropped us a line to help spread the word that those Wal-Mart pre-paid Visa cards are not only financially a horrible idea, but that your money would be safer scattered in the street. Keep reading…

WAL-MART HIDES BEHIND FAKE LAWS… A few months ago the Homeland Security world was all a twitter over suspicious characters buying armloads of cell phones from Wal-Marts. It turned out to be an innocent entrepreneurial exercise – buying cheap phones in one location to be resold for a profit. Keep reading…

FINDING THE BUMPS IN A FLAT EARTH… Much of what Wal-Mart is and is becoming depends upon a global economy where workers in industrialized nations must compete against workers in nations with fledgling industrial economies. Thomas Friedman posits in The World Is Flat that that is a good idea. Keep reading…

WAL-MART URBAN LEGEND NO. 327…* I don”t really know how many Urban Legends there are associated with Wal-Mart,* but we can add one more to the list: The Wal-Mart Check Copying Scam. If you haven”t already gotten the email yet, it will probably pop into your inbox any day now. Keep reading…