Entries Tagged as ‘Wal-Mart’

February 1, 2008

Don’t you just love Wal-Mart.

The Wal-Mart Way. Exploit everyone you can, wherever you can, every time you can.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Washington, D.C. - Wal-Mart Watch released a new digital video today to raise awareness about the nearly 20,000 teens who work without pay in Wal-Mart’s Mexican stores. To view the video, click here.
The unethical practice was brought to [...]

November 20, 2007

China-free for Christmas

China: It’s the country that sells Americans, well nearly everything. But should Americans be buying Christmas gifts from a country that doesn’t even let its own citizens celebrate Christmas?That’s just one of the many reasons concerned Americans are making the bold personal choice of saying this holiday,
“I Choose to be China-free for Christmas.”
The reasons to [...]

October 24, 2007

Florida City Tries to Ban Chinese Products

Upset Over Recalls and Political Issues, One City Weighs a Ban on Chinese Goods

I could live with that!!! But is it even possible to avoid buying products from China?
Of all worldwide imports to the United States, 16.1 percent are from China, according to the Census Bureau. That makes China the second-largest trading partner for the [...]

August 17, 2007

What happened to the US part? Ask Wal-Mart.

What happens when Wal-Mart has completely destroyed Made In The U.S.A.?

August 10, 2007

Look Out, India, Here They Come!

 Gary Weiss, Forbes
What troubles me about Wal-Mart’s India move concerns the potential for social disruption.
There are 12 million people working in retail in India, ranging from operators of boutiques to the fellows who sell “cold water” on the streets of Delhi. I think the water guy and the kid selling fresh coconut juice in [...]

August 8, 2007

Does Wal-Mart Sleep With The Devil?

“To continue growing, Wal-Mart, like any cyclopean, globe-straddling corporation, must ingratiate itself not only with the political elites who rule the local, state and federal regulatory bureaucracies, but with the cultural elites – in this case, the leftists using Wal-Mart’s ill-conceived largesse to peddle multiculturalist and open-borders ideology. These leftists and the illegal immigrants who [...]

July 25, 2007

Shame and Shoplifting at Wal-Mart

Earlier this year, Lisa King Fithian entered the self-checkout lane at the Wal-Mart store in her hometown of Attalla, Ala., with a lava lamp and a pet playpen. According to court documents, she then failed to scan the two items, worth $26.97, to add them to her bill and tried to leave the store. Fithian, [...]

July 19, 2007

Mao-Mart On The Prowl

Wal-Mart is examining a deal to invest in one of China’s biggest retail groups in a move that would dramatically expand its presence in the world’s most populous country, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.
Wal-Mart’s interest in Beijing Hualian has also emerged at a time of rising tension between the US and China over a host [...]