Every year, Wal-Mart has to dispose of millions of dollars worth of customer returns, buy-backs, over-stocks, shelf-pulls, scratch-and-dent, and excess inventories. The retailer sells this merchandise to liquidators -- and the workers used to strip these products clean are often prisoner laborers.

Wal-Mart may have entered the Golden Years, but its self-dealing and covers ups have seriously tarnished the brand, and put its "independent" governance in a state of crisis.

No retailer in American history has ever had to divert so far from its corporate mission to do damage control on its image.

The day when the Federal Reserve began to lower interest rates to address a looming economic downturn, the New York Times ran a Tiffany & Co. ad on page three. The ad featured a lovely pair of diamond teardrop earrings for $230,000.

We're so close to passing the Employee Free Choice Act that we must dispel the last-minute attempts by anti-labor politicians to quash our efforts of standing up for working people.

Friday's announcement by Wal-Mart (WMT) that H. Lee Scott Jr. would be stepping down as president and CEO caught lots of people by surprise, according...

Put enough pressure on Wal-Mart over the healthcare issue, and they will push even harder to offload the burden to the government.

Wal-Mart now seems determined to keep disability benefits from all Americans, not merely its own employees.

Wal-Mart's abandonment of founder Sam Walton's own beliefs that have led them to become such a distasteful presence to an increasing number of communities and shoppers.

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