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.

THE AGE OF WAL-MART (3 OF 9)… First aired 13 November 2006, and reshown 20 May on CNBC. Keep reading…

THE AGE OF WAL-MART (4 OF 9)… First aired 13 November 2006, and reshown 20 May on CNBC. Keep reading…

THE AGE OF WAL-MART (5 OF 9)… First aired 13 November 2006, and reshown 20 May on CNBC. 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 loveyourfuckingface. Keep reading…

WAL-MART LEAVES TOWN AT THE ALTAR… Officials in Thompson Station, Tennessee feel jilted. They spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on infrastructure improvements so that Wal-Mart could build a Supercenter, and Wal-Mart decided to take its cheap, Made-In-China, plastic crap elsewhere. Keep reading…

THE AGE OF WAL-MART (6 OF 9)… First aired 13 November 2006, and reshown 20 May on CNBC. Keep reading…

I KNOOOW… From Saturday Night Live. First aired on 19 February 2003. Keep reading…

CREATIVE SPAMMING… Like all blogs The Writing On The Wal gets spam in it”s comments and its trackbacks. Most of it is tagged and bagged without a thought, but once in a while something creative actually shows up and I give a chuckle before sending it down the tube to spam hell. Keep reading…

THE AGE OF WAL-MART (7 OF 9)… First aired 13 November 2006, and reshown 20 May on CNBC. Keep reading…

THE AGE OF WAL-MART (8 OF 9)… First aired 13 November 2006, and reshown 20 May on CNBC. Keep reading…

A YEAR OF LIVING WAL-MART FREE… I encourage people to not shop at Wal-Mart, but I realize for many it”s not a real option; hence my little toothpaste buycott. But David and Megan (unlike Jim and Laura) have decided to not visit a Wal-Mart for a year. Keep reading…

SHE WOULDN”T BE CAUGHT DEAD SHOPPING… …At a Wal-Mart. But from the privacy of her own home computer, who”s going to know? And that seems to be the latest twist to Wal-Mart”s pathetic attempts to attract that valuable upscale customer. From Brian White at Blogging Stocks: Keep reading…

THE AGE OF WAL-MART (9 OF 9)… First aired 13 November 2006, and reshown 20 May on CNBC. Keep reading…

WHAT WOULD BBC AMERICA HAVE DONE…? From Behind The Counter BBCAmerican, chronicles the scams and other sheer idiocy of people trying to talk him out of the Walton”s billions when they return items. Watching the consequences of not allowing a man to bullets, I wonder how he might have reacted. Keep reading…

IS WAL-MART COOKING THE (REVIEWS) BOOKS…? The ever hilarious BBCAmerican makes a strong case for Wal-Mart fudging the product reviews that it began allowing on its website a few weeks ago. I”ve discussed this here before, but BBC makes a much stronger and detailed case than I did. Keep reading…