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Blog Entries by Al Norman from 02/2012

Say Goodbye to the Wal-Mart Greeters

| Posted 02.01.2012 | Business
Read More: Stand Up Comedians, Tom Coughlin, Sam Walton, Made in America, Wal-Mart Greeters, Business News

The fun is over. Sam Walton's "greatest idea" is dead -- apparently a victim of the recession -- several thousand Wal-Mart greeters are coming in from the cold, to circulate around the store, helping customers find cheap Chinese underwear, and other useful functions.

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Life & a Cheap Death at Wal-Mart

| Posted 02.08.2012 | Business
Read More: Negligence, Electrocution, Immigrant Worker, Brazil, Osha, Wal-Mart Litigation, Walmart, Romulo De Oliveira Santos, Wal-Mart, Business News

An everyday low price for a life -- from the company that made its fortune on cheap imported products -- like the labor of Romulo de Oliveira Santos.

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An End to Wal-Mart Poaching?

| Posted 02.29.2012 | Business
Read More: Retail Rustling, Wal-Mart, Anti-Poaching Agreements, South Euclid Ohio, , California Governor Gray Davis, Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County, Expensive Bidding Wars, Business News

The redundant South Euclid Wal-Mart should crawl back under the rock it came from. We need to take back control over our hometowns from the 1% corporations who now have the upper hand.

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