Walmart chief executive Michael Duke came to Manhattan on Wednesday to tell the Wall Street Journal how great it would be for NYC if the mega-retailer opened up stores here and midway through his breakfast at the Bryant Park Grill, these people showed up. Read more »
Have you got some big bold ideas that would make New York City more sustainable/livable/creative class/green, if only one of dem goofballs from City Hall would just listen to you? Well stop it with the name-calling already, because the city IS going to start listening to you very soon, via the dynamic new Internet website Give a Minute! Read more »
As someone who’s written about Walmart and labor issues on and off over the years, and who’s read books and articles about the big-box retailer’s business practices, I’ve identified some tactics the company regularly uses to ingratiate itself with the public and get its stores approved. Read more »
Wac-Mart is the synthesis of two divergent causes: opposition to the Park51 not-mosque, and the adoration of Walmart expressed by xeno-banshee Pamela Geller and her ilk. In other words, a failed mash-up. Read more »
Blogging dragon lady of doom Pamela Geller has redirected some of her hatred for the “Islamic supremacists” who run the State Department and the not-ground zero not-mega-mosque to a new source of anger: the illogical absence of a Walmart in New York City. She’s doing it for Lady Liberty– and for you, oppressed shoppers of the five boroughs! Read more »
If Walmart does make its way into Brooklyn, this time-lapse video offers a glimpse of what to expect. It was shot by photographer Stephen Wilkes for Fortune magazine’s May issue at the mega-retailer’s store in New Brunswick, NJ. Read more »
So this happened. America’s most ubiquitous and uncool retail chain ever is selling a fixed gear Mongoose for $149—although they call it something weird. Safely equipped with two “caliper brakes,” it sports some faux high flange hubs and in keeping with the current most obnoxious fixed gear trend: riser bars. Read more »
Taking a play out of the Haliburton handbook, retail monolith Walmart is also overcharging troops for services, in this case shipping. |Consumerist|
A gay male couple in Illinois have been barred from Walmart for life after they were accused of shoplifting lighters while shopping in the store with their adopted children, even though police cleared them of any wrongdoing after store surveillance cameras showed that they clearly paid for all of the items in their possession. As an added “fuck you,” Walmart sent them a $158.40 bill for the lighters, which retail for less than $16. |Daily Finance, image via People of Walmart|
Walmart’s bid for global domination features an expanded menu, including crocodile at their first Sam’s club recently opened in Guangzhou, China.
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