WAL-MART: A Field Guide to Americas Largest Company and the World's Largest Employer
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Wal-Mart touched off a DVD price war on Friday when it announced a special pre-release price of $10 for many soon-to-be-released titles, including Terminator Salvation,...
getfoodnews (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Asda has been ‘sold’ by parent Wal-Mart to investment subsidiary Corinth Services in a £6.9bn deal. The deal, which took place in August, was described as part of a “group restructuring” and means Asda remains under the control of the US retail giant. “From 2009 Corinth is the new parent company of Asda Group, having previously been a subsidiary,” a spokesman...
JONATHAN TURLEY (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Attorneys Joe Paolucci and Thomas Hitchcock were declared persona non grata recently by Wal-Mart – banished from the store for life. Their banishment came after they had proven that they had not shoplifted a package of bic lighters from the store. The gay couple alleges that before the banishment they were subject [...]
Top 10 Costa Rica (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Wal-Mart announced that it will be hiring an additional 500 people and opening 11 more stores in 2010 in Costa Rica, half of the company’s investment in the region. The announcement comes amid economic uncertainty where some companies have decided to decrease staff, some even closing entirely. Marcos Samaha, president of Wal-Mart in Costa Rica, confirmed the [...]
bilerico.com (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Do you still shop at Wal-Mart? If you do, you might want to read this story about two gay dads getting kicked out . Thomas Hitchcock and Joe Paolucci were there buying groceries, and Hitchcock used the self-scan lane. As he was leaving, a security officer approached him and accused him of stealing about $15 worth of lighters. People started shouting, the kids started freaking out, and the police were...
WTFBLOG (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
This is just PLAIN crazy, but then again it is Walmart and they have been against the gays for fuck knows how long. Boycott y’all! Not every confrontation that a gay person experiences in their life is based on their orientation. But sometimes it is very difficult to see any other possible explanation. Take the experience that [...]
Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
A Wal-Mart in rural Indiana detained two gay attorneys and their two adopted special needs sons and then banned them from patronizing any store in the chain, even though video records proved that the couple had not shoplifted the packages of Bic lighters that employees claimed they had. One of the men had used the store's self-checkout lane and security cameras clearly showed him scanning the items...
24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
The cynic’s view of Wal-Mart’s (NYSE:WMT) new expansion of its Great Value private label food brand is that it is aimed at making as much money as possible from those who are out of work or work for the minimum wage. The New York Times reports that Wal-Mart is marketing the brand as a way for food [...]
Forbes (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
The merger of Rt-Mart and Auchan in China may be held up by employee opposition.
Brian Moore - KAMInsighter (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
In an article in the The Telegraph , a Walmart spokesman was quoted as saying that it had been done "for good financial management" reasons. He declined to comment on whether the move was tax driven, but said that all the companies were registered in the UK. In the absence of further details from Walmart, the real issues for suppliers are why, and why now….? Bearing in mind - Asda...
Local News (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
CHICO — The proposed Wal-Mart expansion will come before the Chico City Council a week later than originally scheduled, with the council re-visiting the matter at its regularly scheduled meeting Nov.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW YORK — First it was books. Now it's DVDs. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. started another price war Thursday, trimming the online preorder prices of some upcoming DVDs following its price cut on books last month. And, once again, competitors Amazon.com and Target scrambled to match the prices. It's the latest salvo in an ongoing online push by Wal-Mart designed to make sure everyone knows it intends...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | yesterday
New Delhi, Nov. 8: Global retailer Wal-Mart will soon open around 40 cash-and-carry stores.
Box Turtle Bulletin (Free subscription) | yesterday
Not every confrontation that a gay person experiences in their life is based on their orientation. But sometimes it is very difficult to see any other possible explanation. Take the experience that Joe Paolucci, Thomas Hitchcock, and their special need twins had recently with Wal-Mart. Employees at the Niles, MI Wal-Mart store accused Paolucci of shoplifting [...]
Concurring Opinions (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Outsourcing, with or without offshoring, through extended supply chains of goods and services has come to be a common way to organize a business. Using contract law to divide and subdivide what was once a single enterprise (or start one from scratch) into separate legal entities is ever more useful to businesses as they try to cut their costs to become ever more competitive. If vertical integration...
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