WAL-MART WEDNESDAY…
November 28th, 2007
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.
BLACK FRIDAY…. SCENE 1… Watch…
BLACK FRIDAY…. SCENE 2… Watch…
NORTH CAROLINA TAX PAPERS NOT SEALED… Wal-Mart, which can”t figure out how to obtain product to sell at no cost, has turned to other avenues to reduce its costs of doing business and further increase its profits. The most recent tactic has involved creative accounting to avoid paying its taxes. Keep reading…
BLACK FRIDAY…. SCENE 3… Watch…
WAL-MART KNOWS ITS PLACE… That was the line that I liked the best from Rick Munarriz piece for the The Motley Fool. Munarriz is generally upbeat about Wal-Mart”s coming Chri$tma$ madness, but he”s definitely not upscale. Does Wal-Mart really think people will confuse cheap with chic? Keep reading…
BLACK FRIDAY…. SCENE 4… Watch…
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BLACK FRIDAY…. WHERE WAL-MART IS LEADING… Watch…
THIS KID KNOWS HOW TO WALLOP WAL-MART… Rather than suffering hours of cold just to be crushed in the stampede of frenzied shoppers convinced they can prove their love and self-worth by buying cheap plastic crap from China, one girl decided to turn the Black Friday insanity into a positive experience… Keep reading…
BLACK FRIDAY…. SCENE 7… Watch…
WELCOME TO WAL-GAS… In an era that will increasingly be dominated by the price of gasoline, we all knew that it was just a matter of time before Wal-Mart, faced with consumers unwilling, or unable, to drive any distance to shop would go small, local and… Keep reading…
WAL-MART REJECTS 5,700+ IN CLEVELAND… In what can only be seen as a condemnation of the mayoral stewardships of Jane Campbell and Frank Jackson, and the total absence of leadership from its city council member past and present, Cleveland”s only Wal-Mart turned away more than 5,700 job applicants. Keep reading…
BLACK FRIDAY…. SCENE I’M DONE… Watch…
DID WAL-MART STIFF CLEVELAND…? The Wal-Mole formerly known as BBC American dropped me an email this afternoon. BBC was bothered by the 300 number the Wal-Flacks bantered about for the number of jobs at the Wal-Mart Supercenter at Cleveland”s Steelyard Commons. Keep reading…
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE SHOP… Robert wrote yesterday about the drop in dollars-per-shopper figure for Black Friday. And Wal-Mart is seriously on the case. What is its solution to shoppers having less money to spend? Why open more Wal-Mart stores 24/7 of course. Keep reading…
WAL-MART NOISY…? WHO”DA THUNK IT…? New Yorkers and other urban dwellers are resigned to the noise of trash cans banging at 4 a.m. and delivery trucks double-parked in the narrow streets, but in Carson City, Nevada, residents have a different standard: Keep reading…
BUY CHEAP PLASTIC CRAP… FRY A FAGGOT… Why, with all the hatred, pain, suffering and injustice in the world, has a tiny but shrill minority of christianists chosen to devote such copious amounts of their time, wealth and energy to battling a fantastical threat from homosexuals? Keep reading…
