Wal Mart

Walmart Makes Big Decision On ALEC

Reuters | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Walmart, Stand Your Ground, Video, Wal-Mart Alec, American Legislative Exchange Council, Alec, Alec Wal-Mart, ALEC Stand Your Ground, Alec Walmart, Reuters, Walmart Alec, Wal-Mart, Politics News

By Jessica Wohl ROGERS, Ark., May 31 (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc , the world's No. 1 retailer and the biggest sell...

Read Whole Story

Walmart's New Ad-vantage Over Best Buy

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 05.30.2012

Walmart turned Best Buy's retreat into an advertising diss. Walmart has taken out full-page newspaper ads telling shoppers not to worry about the anno...

Read Whole Story

Ay Caramba! From the Vegas Strip to Congress, Berkley Weeps for the Workers -- While Her Hubby Holds Wal-Mart Stock

Heather Robinson | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Labor Unions, Wal-Mart, Dr. Lawrence Lehrner, Rep. Shelley Berkley, Las Vegas, House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, Labor Unions in Las Vegas, Politics News

Rep. Shelley Berkley, the liberal Democratic Senate candidate trying to unseat Senator Dean Heller in November, is a gung-ho supporter of labor unions which highlights her tight relationship with Big Labor in her fights for office.

Read Post

Dems Seek Info About Firms That Funded Anti-Bribery Law Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Elijah Cummings, Walmart, Video, Institute for Legal Reform, Bribery Scandal, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Bribery, Anti-Bribery Law, Henry Waxman, US Chamber of Commerce, Wal-Mart, Fcpa, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Two Democratic congressmen are investigating whether the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's tenacious attack on a key anti-bribery statute has l...

Read Whole Story

Corruption, Democracy, and the Search for a Better World

Valerie Berset-Price | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Corruption, Wal Mart, International Business, Zambia, Uruguay, Ethics, Wireless, Bribery, Technology, Fcpa, Business News

Wal-Mart is making the headlines with the FCPA corruption case it faces in Mexico. But anyone who has been on the ground trying to close business in c...

Read Post

Fortune 500 Companies Made Record $824 Billion Profit In 2011

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Layoffs, General Electric, Video, Fortune 500, Unemployment, Corporate Profits, General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Pfizer, Fortune, Corporate Earnings, Wal-Mart, Business News

Poverty is rampant. Hunger is widespread. But don't worry about America's largest corporations -- they're doing just fine. Fortune released its ann...

Read Whole Story

Ex-Taco Bell Manager Alleges Chain Forced Employees To Work Unpaid Overtime

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Overtime Lawsuit, Ibm, Tacala, Taco Bell Overtime, Bank of America, Time Cards, Taco Bell Lawsuit, Alicia Sloan, Wal-Mart, Overtime Pay, Video, Groupon, Taco Bell, Starbucks, Florida, Class Action Lawsuit, Overtime, Business News

Taco Bell loves it when you eat round the clock. But they don't seem to want to pay their workers for every one of the hours they spend feeding you. ...

Read Whole Story

Walmart's (In)action in Mexico Hurts Everyday Americans

Dawn Lerman | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Walmart Bribery, Walmart, Walmart Mexico, Wal-Mart, Achieving the Dream, Corporate Philanthropy, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business News

When Wal-Mart gets itself into trouble, it makes it that much harder for ordinary people to accept the company's good deeds. Yes -- you read that right: good deeds.

Read Post

Don't Believe the Hype on Corporate Bribery

Brandon L. Garrett | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Corruption, News Corp, Walmart, Wall Street, White Collar Crime, Corporations, Corporate Bribes, Corporate Bribery, Walmart Bribery, Biomet, Siemens, Corporate Greed, Wal-Mart, Crime News

Corporations can be prosecuted as criminals and every year some get convicted of crimes. However, over the past decade the government has not stepped up corporate crime enforcement. In fact, the evidence is to the contrary.

Read Post

99% Spring Has Sprung: Shareholder Actions Underway Across the County

Mary Bottari | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Bank Protests, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Wall Street, Wells Fargo, Verizon Wireless, Bank of America, Sallie Mae, Wal-Mart, Wisconsin Protests, Move Your Money, 99 Percent Spring, 99% Spring, We Are the 99 Percent, Occupy, Occupy Movement, Business News

The goal: to wrest control of our democracy back from the robber barons and CEOs that systematically block any effort to create an economy and a body politic that serves the needs of the vast majority of Americans and not the elite few.

Read Post

Rationalizing Walmart in Mexico

Robert Teitelman | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Securities and Exchange Commission, Wall Street Journal, Wal-Mart, Mexico, Walmart Bribery, Walmart Mexico, Business News

This was not really about the long-term good of Walmart, which will now undergo a long, expensive and destructive scandal that will also suck in a new generation of (possibly) innocent executives, employees and shareholders. This was about personal self-interest in the short term.

Read Post

Is Walmart Too Big, Powerful, Influential to Obey the Law?

Richard Trumka | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Corporate Greed, Bribery, Wal-Mart, Child Labor Laws, Mexico, Business News

This week's reports about Walmart's practices in Mexico are breathtaking. The Times found "credible evidence that bribery played a persistent and significant role in Walmart's rapid growth in Mexico."

Read Post

God And Guns At Walmart

Mark Osler | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Texas, Gun Violence, Christianity, Prayer, Wal-Mart, Prayer and Meditation, Gun Control, Religion News

We should be cautious in drawing firm conclusions from this seeming correlation between public faith and gun violence, as many other factors are in play. But shouldn't faith direct us to try to stem the violence?

Read Post

Practicing What You Preach: A Lesson for Walmart's Bosses

Cobus de Swardt | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Walmart Bribery, Walmart, Walmart Mexico, Wal-Mart Mexico, Wal-Mart, Walmart Scandal, Corruption, Leadership, Transparency International, Corporate America, Bribes, Bribery, Business News

Allegations that Walmart paid millions of dollars in bribes to build up its empire in Mexico should act as a warning sign to corporations everywhere. A culture of bribery in a subsidiary is unacceptable, but failing to deal with it would be even worse.

Read Post

Fired Morgan Stanley Executive Accused In China Bribery Scheme

HuffingtonPost.com | D.M. Levine | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Walmart, Morgan-Stanley-Bribery, Morgan Stanley, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Bribery, Sec, Wal-Mart, Fcpa, Business News

A former Morgan Stanley executive was charged with bribery Wednesday in a Securities and Exchange Commission civil complaint that says he steered near...

Read Whole Story

Informal Romney Adviser And Top GOP Lobbyist Helping Walmart

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.25.2012

WASHINGTON -- A top GOP lobbyist with informal ties to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is among the group of officials h...

Read Whole Story

Big Box, Big Problems

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Walmart, Video, Mark Gongloff Things to Know, Seven and a Half Things, Seven and a Half Things You Need to Know, Walmart Bribery, 7 1/2 Things, Wal-Mart Bribery, Seven and a Half Things to Know, Wal-Mart, Things You Need to Know Today, Business News

There are at least a hundred billion galaxies in the universe, but only seven and a half things you need to know today. Here they are: Thing One: W...

Read Whole Story

Walmart Took Part In Lobbying Campaign To Amend Anti-Bribery Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Retail Industry Leaders Association, Walmart, Thomas D. Hyde, Michael B. Mukasey, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Wal-Mart Bribery Scandal, Bribery, Justice Department, Institute of Legal Reform, Wal-Mart, Business News

Some top Walmart executives have been active in a lobbying group that is pushing to weaken the country's main anti-bribery law, as first reported in t...

Read Whole Story

Wal-Mart Faces Federal Criminal Probe

The Washington Post | Sari Horwitz and Jia Lynn Yang | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Walmart, Elijah E. Cummings, U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Wal-Mart De Mexico, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Justice Department, Wal-Mart, Jeff Gearhart, U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, Henry A. Waxman, Joe Hansen, Construction, Sec, Wal-Mart Bribery, David Tovar, Securities and Exchange Commission, Thomas Hyde, Business News

The Justice Department has been conducting a criminal probe of Wal-Mart for allegations of systematic bribery in Mexico, according to three people fam...

Read Whole Story

Walmart's Criminal Problems - Much Bigger Than NewsCorp's

Carl Pope | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Mexico, Human Rights, Environmental Policy, Walmart Class Action Suit, Walmart, Walmart Corruption, New York Times, Wal-Mart, Business News

Walmart's much heralded commitment to ethical behavior has once again proven to be a pathetically flimsy shield against the driving imperative of its "grow at any cost" business model.

Read Post

Mexican Vexation

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Video, Mark Gongloff Things to Know, Wal-Mart Mexico, Seven and a Half Things, Seven and a Half Things You Need to Know, Wal-Mart De Mexico, 7 1/2 Things, Seven and a Half Things to Know, 7.5 Things, Things You Need to Know Today, Wal-Mart, Business News

A Japanese TV reporter ordered a Burger King burger with 1050 strips of bacon on it (and apparently ate about half of it). Seven and a half is a more ...

Read Whole Story

Wal-Mart Covered Up Giant Bribery Case

AP | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Walmart, Mexico, Walmart Bribery, Wal-Mart Bribery, Wal-Mart, Mexico Bribery, Business News

NEW YORK -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. hushed up a vast bribery campaign that top executives of its Mexican subsidiary carried out to build stores across th...

Read Whole Story

Wal-Mart's 'Terrifying' Attack on the First Amendment

Al Norman | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: First Amendment Rights, Contempt of Court, Niagara County Republicans, NAACP v Alabama, Wal-Mart, Clean Water Act, North Tonawanda First, Wal-Mart Lawsuits, Business News

Wal-Mart has used its legal muscle countless times to appeal local zoning decisions to the county courts, to the appeals courts, and beyond. The corporation has more lawsuits than men's suits.

Read Post

Wall Street Offered Better Deals 100 Years Ago

Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Video, Wall Street, Wall-Street-Inefficient, Occupy Wall Street, Wall Street Efficiency, Technological Advances, Business News, Wal-Mart, Wall Street Ineffciency, Business News

Wall Street is making more money than ever, but it's that's not because it's getting the job done much better. The financial system of today is ju...

Read Whole Story

Why Coca-Cola Cut Its Ties With A Right-Wing Group

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Coca-Cola, Video, Alec, American Legislative Exchange Council, Boycott, Voter Identification, Voter ID Laws, Koch Industries, Coca-Cola Boycott, Wal-Mart, Voter ID, Business News

Voter ID laws are quickly becoming a hot-button issue -- and Coca-Cola is jumping back from the heat. The soft-drink company has severed its ties w...

Read Whole Story