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.

WOULD YOU DRAG YOUR BUTT IN FOR $.08…? As Jonathan noted earlier, one of the great Black Friday bargains the Wal-Flacks are touting will save you a whole $1.12. Well I came across a post at Kotaku that makes that look like a real bargain. It made Mike Fahey use a whole four exclamation points. Keep reading…

WAY NO. 3 TO SAY NO TO BIG BOXES… Today”s way to Say No To Big Boxes is: produce a local college radio show on the Day of Action. Keep reading…

ANOTHER TWISTED TAX TALE FROM WAL-MART… Did you know that Wal-Mart had entered Italy? I didn”t. Not with a Supercenter. Not with one earlier model stores. Not even with one of its down-sized neighborhood markets. No, Wal-Mart opened a real estate office in Florence. Keep reading…

WAY NO. 2 TO SAY NO TO BIG BOXES… Today”s way to Say No To Big Boxes is: organize at at-home viewing of Wal-Mart Nation. Keep reading…

HEAD I”m feeling very frustrated this morning. Yesterday Wal-Mart issued a 60-page report on its sustainability efforts. There”s plenty of buzz on the report – including in this morning”s New York Times – but I”ll be fecked if I can find a copy of the report on line. 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 truzzyx. Keep reading…

WAY NO. 1 TO SAY NO TO BIG BOXES… Today”s way to Say No To Big Boxes is: lead, follow but don”t sit on the sidewalk watching the parade. On a day of action the key is to take an action. Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead. Keep reading…

EMBRACE ALL THE SHADES OF GREEN… Their is an infinite palette of greens ranging from the sensible-shoe-wearing, tree-hugging, gray haired octogenarian blowing up oil pipelines in Nigeria to the good ol” boy who keeps a litter bag hanging from the cigarette lighter knob in his Ford 150. Keep reading…

ANOTHER WAL-MART FOR CHICAGO…? Three years ago Chicago”s city council approved the rezoning of land at the intersection of West 83rd and South Stewart Avenue for the development of the Chatham Market. But it imposed a big restriction in exchange for its approval. Keep reading…

JUDGE NEEDS MORE TIME TO RULE IN AUSTIN… After four days of testimony in the case of Responsible Growth for Northcross v. Lincoln Property Co. and the city of Austin, Judge Orlinda Naranjo told the litigants that she”d get back to them next month. At issue is a proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter at Northcross Mall. Keep reading…

THIS IS TOUGH ONE… The name of his company is central to what Jeffrey Hollender believes; that In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations. What Hollender now considers was unthinkable only three years ago: selling to Wal-Mart. Keep reading…

LESSONS LEARNED IN WAL-MART… I sense a book brewing here in the vein of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. The blogger at Awakened and Lovesick only came up with six lessons, but I”m sure that if they tried, they”d come up with more.
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IF YOU”RE NOT PART OF THE SOLUTION… Wal-Mart”s announcement that it will participate in a domestic violence public awareness campaign in Oklahoma is a good thing. And perhaps the company will find ways to expand the program nationally and internationally; starting maybe in Georgia?
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