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Schlock Doctrine: Where, and by Whom, Was Your Christmas Made?

Randall Amster | Posted 12.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Toys, Sesame Street, Made in China, The Shock Doctrine, Children, Child Labor, Raising Children, Globalization, China Toys, Parenting, Wal-Mart, Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine, Schlock, Labor, Sweatshop Labor, Christmas, Disney, Sweatshops, China, Living News, Green Living, Living News
Randall Amster

There are certainly many alternatives for purchasing products with greater ethical standards. But let's face it -- parents are busy, disposable incomes are tight, children need stimulation, time is money, and this is America.

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Walmart Open Christmas Day? NO! Ignore Rumors, Hours Listings, Etc.

Posted 12.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Christmas Day, Walmart, Holidays, Holiday Shopping, Walmart Open Xmas Day, Walmart Hours Christmas Day, Walmart Xmas Day, Stores Open Christmas Day 2009, Walmart Christmas Day Hours, Christmas, Is Walmart Open Christmas Day 2009, Wal-Mart, Is Walmart Open Christmas Day, Is Walmart Open Christmas, Walmart Open Christmas Day, Business News

For those wondering, 'is Walmart open Christmas Day?,' the answer is no. Walmart, along with most other major retailers, closed its doors last nigh...

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Wal-Mart Jobs Expose: Why A Recent NYT Story About Working At Wal-Mart Was A 'Stunt': Laura Heller

walletpop.com | Laura Heller | Posted 12.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Stephanie Rosenbloom, Efficiency, Walmart-Employees, Wal-Mart Unions, Walmart, Corporate Pr, Wal-Mart-Employees, People of Walmart, Wal-Mart, Business News

Getting a peek inside a major retailer can yield some pretty revealing information about their business and culture. It's not an easy thing to arrange...

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Walmart's Latest Quest: Dominating Internet Shopping

yahoo.com | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 12.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Walmart, walmart.com, Retail Sales, Web Retail, Target, Wal-Mart, Amazon, Business News

With a week to go before Christmas, division CEO Raul Vazquez says Walmart.com's holiday sales are growing two or three times faster than Web sales ov...

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Wal-Mart of Construction Industry Launches Another Assault on Its Workers

María Elena Durazo | Posted 12.07.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Health Care Reform, Labor, Unions, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Wal-Mart, Los Angeles News
María Elena Durazo

The anti-worker Associated Builders & Contractors has teamed up with its right-wing friends to fight President Obama's health care reform efforts.

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Black Friday Shoppers Run Wild In Wal-Mart (VIDEO)

Posted 12.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Walmart, Crazy Shoppers, Black Friday Shopping, Holiday Shopping, Shopping, Wal Mart, Black Friday, Wal-Mart, Business News

Unlike 2008, when a Wal-Mart employee was trampled to death in Valley Stream, New York, there have been no reported deaths this year associated with B...

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California: Killing the Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.03.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Paris Hilton, Senator Dave Cogdill, California Higher Education, Lindsay Lohan, California State University, Wal-Mart, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cfa, Public Higher Education, President Barack Obama, California State Politics, AB 656, Senator Dennis Hollingsworth, Board of Trustees, Assembly Bill 656, Home Depot, Higher Education, California Legislature, California Politics, Chancellor Charles Reed, CFA President Lillian Taiz, University of California, Jay Leno, Csu, California Faculty Association, Education Policy, Kfc, Mission Statement, California State University System, Los Angeles News
Joseph A. Palermo

Scwharzenegger and the Republicans who control California's finances have concluded it's not even worth trying to compete with India and China anymore, as evidenced by the "restructuring" of the California State University system.

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Scuffling Customers Close S. California Wal-Mart

AP | Posted 11.27.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Walmart, Black Friday, Wal-Mart, Los Angeles News

UPLAND, Calif. — Police say a Wal-Mart store in Southern California closed its doors for several hours before dawn after some Black Friday shopp...

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How Steve Forbes Will Save Us

Al Norman | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Creative Destruction, Joseph A. Schumpeter, Steve Forbes, Wal-Mart, Rashomon, Business News
Al Norman

When I look at a downtown devastated by empty storefronts and For Sale signs, I see lost jobs, reduced property taxes, and deteriorating infrastructure. Steve Forbes sees the churning forces of the Free Market at work.

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Black Friday Forever: Can Shopping Save America?

Gordon Laird | Posted 11.24.2009 | Style

Read More: Thanksgiving, Wal-Mart, Thanksgiving Commentary, Black Friday, Style News
Gordon Laird

Black Friday 2008 never actually ende. Desperate retailers have continued to mark down their goods in an unprecedented wave of discounting that has redefined the marketplace.

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Woman Who Cut In Line At Walmart Could Face Prison Time In Racially Charged Incident

AP | BETSY TAYLOR | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Walmart, Heather Ellis, Your Black World, Walmart Checkout Lines, Walmart Racial Incident, Wal-Mart, Naacp, Dunklin County, Business News

ST. LOUIS — Nearly three years after Heather Ellis switched checkout lines at a southeast Missouri store and touched off what she calls a racial...

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Walmart Showing Growth During Downturn, Posts 3 Percent Profit

AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Economic Growth, Sam's Club, American-Corporatation, Wal-Mart, Business News

NEW YORK — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. posted a 3.2 percent increase in third-quarter profit, helped by cost-cutting measures like slashing inventories...

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The Best Thing You Can Have Is Bad Intelligence

Simon Sinek | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Leadership, Walmart, Leaders, Intelligence, Inspiration, Start With Why, General Motors, Microsoft, Entrepreneurship, Motivation, Thought Leaders, Competitive Analysis, Corporate Culture, Wal-Mart, Culture, Business News
Simon Sinek

The greatest threat any organization can face is not its competition but its own success. With great success comes complacency -- the false belief that you are the best and that you don't have to worry.

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Wal-Mart Walking on Sunshine

Al Norman | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Eviction, Mobile Home Parks, Trailer Trash, Palm Springs, Wal-Mart, Elderly & Disabled, Business News
Al Norman

As many as 70 elderly and disabled residents of Palm Springs, Florida, may soon be evicted to make way for another Wal-Mart superstore.

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Wal-Mart, Amazon, Target In DVD Price War

AP | MICHELLE CHAPMAN | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Walmart, Price War, Target, Dvd Price War, Dvds, Wal-Mart, Amazon, Business News

NEW YORK — First it was books. Now it's DVDs. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. started another price war Thursday, trimming the online preorder prices of s...

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Is Conscious Capitalism an Oxymoron?

Chip Conley | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Target, Southwest Airlines, Wal Mart, Pepsi Co, Downturn, Warren Buffett, Joie De Vivre Hotesl Proctor & Gamble, The Container Store, Business, Whole Foods, Zappos, Karmic Capitalism, Unconscious Capitalism, Business News
Chip Conley

We may be entering an era of Karmic Capitalism when business realizes what goes around, comes around. Let's hope that the captains of industry apply noblesse oblige to the business world.

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Wal-Mart Offering Low-Cost Caskets, Urns On Its Website

AP | EMILY FREDRIX | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Casket, Costco, Discount Stores, Wal-Mart, Funeral, Business News

MILWAUKEE — The world's largest retailer wants to keep its customers even after they die. Wal-Mart has started selling caskets on its Web site ...

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Not a Simple Price War -- It's a Fight Over What You Get to Read

William Petrocelli | Posted 10.28.2009 | Books

Read More: Predatory Pricing, Mass Merchandisers, Best-Sellers, Independent Bookstores, New Authors, Walmart, Price Wars, Wal-Mart, Book Publishing, Bookselling, Bestsellers, Target, Publishing, Bookstores, Books, Amazon, Books News
William Petrocelli

What looks like a simple price war between Amazon, Target, and Walmart over a handful of bestsellers is symptomatic of a much deeper problem in the book business.

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Predators in the Book Biz

Bruce Harris | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books

Read More: Amazon.com, Predatory Pricing, Stephen King, Wal-Mart, Vanderbilt, Sarah Palin, Publishing, Barnes & Noble, Price Wars, Book Publishing, Books, Aba, Amazon, Bestsellers, Books News
Bruce Harris

The pre-printed price, establishing the value of a book, is the temptress that has seduced the biggest merchants in the country to go for each other's jugular.

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Indie Bookstores Reject Bestseller Price Wars

The Cleveland Plain Dealer | Janet Cho | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books

Read More: Target, Price Wars, Independent Bookstores, Wal-Mart, Bookstores, Bookselling, Indie Bookstores, Books, Book Wars, Amazon, Bestsellers, Booksellers, Sears, Books News

Independent booksellers say they have no intention of joining the fight among the bigger chain stores over the $9 prices of 10 highly anticipated best...

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Can Wal-Mart Think Smaller?

Al Norman | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Smaller Supercenters, E.F. Schumacher, Merrill Lynch, Wal-Mart, Suburbs, Tesco, Retail, Tom Shoewe, Aldi, Green Business, Sprawl, Commercial Real Estate, Business News
Al Norman

Wal-Mart is hinting at smaller stores. The reality: land is not available anywhere for the classic Wal-Mart supercenter, weighing in at over 200,000 square feet.

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The Best Risk Reward Proposition

Alan Schram | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Berkshire Hathaway, Dow Jones, Inflation, Dollar, Business News, Warren Buffett, Financial Crisis, Real Estate, Saving Money, Wal-Mart, S&P 500, Business News
Alan Schram

This will be a different kind of inflationary cycle. The dollar will decline, but Real estate prices will not be going up because few property owners can raise rents right now.

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Wal-Mart: "If There's Going to be a Wal-Mart of the Web, It Can Be Amazon"

Steve Ross | Posted 10.19.2009 | Books

Read More: Cd, Book Publishing, Publishing, Discounts, Book-Prices, Jeff Bezos, Price War, Humor, Books, Future of Publishing, Wall Street Journal, Wal-Mart, Humor and Satire, Amazon, Books News
Steve Ross

Where will this pricing war end? Is it in anyone's interests besides the consumers? At what price should inexpensive hardcovers reasonably come -- at the expense of the author's income?

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Wal-Mart Vs. Amazon: Price Wars

AP | ASHLEY M. HEHER | Posted 10.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Amazon.com, America's Reading List, Wal-Mart, John Grisham, The Lost Symbol, Wal-Mart Prices, Books, Amazon, Bestsellers, Sarah Palin, Dan Brown, Walmart vs Amazon, Walmart, Wal-Mart vs. Amazon, Books News

CHICAGO — Taking a page from its original playbook, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. launched a full-fledged price war with Amazon.com Inc. and a nation of ...

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