WAL-MART WEDNESDAY…
April 9th, 2008
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.
SHANK OR THE INTERVIEW: WHICH WAS FIRST…? All of us involved feel good right now because we forced Wal-Mart to blink. Not because we convinced it that taking Debbie Shank”s money was bad, but because it understood that keeping her money would have a negative effect on its share holder value. Keep reading…
HIS COMMUNITY IS GONE… Blogger Neath feels the loss of his community from the micro level of his neighborhood to the macro of his nation. Change is always traumatic for someone but the standard I adhere to is ask the question: how many benefit, how many lose. 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 25thHourDVD3. Keep reading…
WAL-MART MOMS…? John McCain”s campaign manager Rick Davis believes Wal-Mart moms are a key demographic in the presidential race. Go to Wal-Mart and stand next to the greeter for 20 minutes. Go see the voters we”re targeting. If you see them, you”ll understand them.
Keep reading… HEAD COPY. Keep reading…
CALLING ALL TAGGERS… I look at the facade of this abandoned Wal-Mart in Hemet, California, I think, what a great opportunity for politically motivated taggers. That big block of blue is just begging for a message. And with our recession, there are going to be a lot more canvases out there. Keep reading…
A CONVERSATION WITH LEE SCOTT… Last week I quoted Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott in an interview excerpt from the Financial Times. Yesterday, the paper published an edited, but more extensive, version of that interview. I”ve interviewed Fortune 500 CEO”s and I give Scott a lot of credit. Keep reading…
WAL-MART AS COMMODITY BROKER…? Organically grown cotton can cost twice or even three times the price per pound of cotton grown using traditional methods. Cotton is a resource intensive crop. It sucks nutrients from the soil that must be replaced by fertilizers or crop rotation. Keep reading…
PICK UP TRASH, PLAN A PARTY, WHATEVER… The story of former Wal-Mart executive Thomas Coughlin may be in the running for the longest Wal-Mart story ever. We first reported on Coughlin here nearly three years ago, but his actions keep putting him back in the news. Keep reading…
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