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It is unclear why Walmart banned a gay couple and their children from shopping at Walmart when they did nothing wrong
Wal-Mart Watch (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Send a demerit badge to a Walmart executive
Wal-Mart Watch (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Flu Preparation at Walmart: espoused by an unlikely candidate…
Wal-Mart Watch (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
When you get sick, do you take the day off? You should, but Walmart’s corporate policies make it hard for workers to stay home.
Wal-Mart Watch (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
A judge has just approved yet another legal settlement for Walmart as part of the 63 cases they vowed to settle back in December of ‘08
Wal-Mart Watch (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Walmart rolls out a new line of funeral supplies
Wal-Mart Watch (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Our friends over at American Rights at Work just sent out this email and we’re asking you, our supporters, to help them out. Here’s their email, check it out and then go send Mike Duke a letter . Low wages and unionbusting have been par for the course at Walmart. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Walmart has a new CEO, Mike Duke, who has a chance to take Walmart on a better path....
Wal-Mart Watch (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Apparently Walmart is VERY in to going green...unless it inconveniences them or their customers a little...or cuts in to sales. At least that seems to be the message in Walmart’s latest announcement that they won’t cut plastic bags from two stores until after the holidays, or later. Just a few days after the company announced they would test removing plastic bags in three stores, two of...
Wal-Mart Watch (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Our good friend Al Norman has a new post up over at The Huffington Post : The words “small” and “Wal-Mart” don’t fit well together. Yet the dominant retailer on the globe has been telling Wall Street analysts for several years running that small is beautiful. Last year this time, at an analyst’s meeting, Tom Shoewe, Wal-Mart’s Executive Vice President, summarized...
Wal-Mart Watch (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
When we saw this story today, we were pretty interested. It seems a Walmart loss prevention officer (read security guard) was fired for chasing a man who he had witnessed steal some merchandise. It is not clear if he was fired for running after the man or because the man had a knife. We were interested because in the past , there have been several incidents where shop lifters have been injured and...
Wal-Mart Watch (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Check out this article from the Hunterdon County Democrat about a Walmart rally planned for today. We’ll try to get some pictures up later in the day! A demonstration is planned for today at the new Walmart here, with some 300 to 400 members of the United Food and Commercial Workers union Local 1262 expected to hold what it calls a “consumer education rally” outside the store. The...
Wal-Mart Watch (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
It seems that police in Chattanooga, TN were fed up with crime at the local Walmart stores and decided to take a proactive approach. Instead of waiting for calls, they ran stings, and it worked. The police arrested 8 people. Now we’ve written about how crime-ridden Walmart parking lots can be in the past, but this is the first we’ve heard of any kind of stings. It’s actually a great...
Wal-Mart Watch (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
This Satirical piece from The Spoof is well worth a read. It’s funny because, like all good satire, it’s based on the truth. This paragraph in particular rings true: “Indeed, with well over 2,000,000 associates spanning the globe, and growth figures leaving industrialized nations in the dust, Walmart is shaping up to be a formidable new player on the international scene. ‘We...
Wal-Mart Watch (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Current and former Walmart workers in Iowa are the most recent to be a party to a major class action settlement with Walmart. The $11 million settlement is in response to Walmart illegally forcing employees to work through breaks or work off the clock. This particular settlement is part of a larger agreement Walmart made back in December to settle 63 wage and hour cases across the country. Of course...
Wal-Mart Watch (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Wired has a great piece out about a major security breach of Walmart’s electronic data back in 2006. The breach has just been made public, through internal Walmart documents, and they show just how close Walmart was to letting a hacker get names, addresses, social security numbers, and complete credit card profiles. The Wired piece is really worth reading in full, it’s a fascinating story,...
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