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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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"Unbanked" Citizens Increasingly Targeted By Big Companies And Payday Lenders

washingtonpost.com | Ylan Q. Mui | Posted 10.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Unbanked, Check Cashing, Payday Lenders, Wal-Mart, Business News

For years, the country's makeshift network of payday lenders and check cashers has operated with little competition or federal regulation. ...

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Barack Obama, Nobel Laureate; First the Reward, Now the Risk

Mike Hegedus | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: Gdansk, Theodore Roosevelt, Lech Walesa, Euro Dollar, Major League Baseball, Woodrow Wilson, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize, Mvp, Congo, Patrice Lamuba, Wal-Mart, Barack Obama, Japan, World News

Barack Obama won the Nobel Prize because the world outside our own borders hopes, wants, and prays for his success internationally. And that's a good thing, a very good thing.

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Wal-Mart Can Be Our Surprise Salvation: A Two-Part Discussion of the Retail Giant's Health Care Potential

Patricia Yarberry Allen | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sam Walton, Health Care Reform, Humor, Hmos, Wal-Mart, Patricia Yarberry, Community Clinics, Politics News

Ultimately, the political infighting about our health care crisis isn't the point. The possibility of solving it is. I am as surprised as you might be to believe that the best hope lies with Wal-Mart.

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Is Eli Lilly Milking Cancer by Promoting and Treating It?

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Richard Burroughs, Colon Cancer, Milk, Diethylstilbestrol, Risk Factors, Rbgh, Diabetes. Settlement, Cell Division, Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1, Consumer Protection Claim, Antibiotic Resistance, Non-GMO., Lung Cancer, Dairy Products, Eli Lilly, Fraternal Twins, Breast Cancer, Fda, American Nurses Association, Hormone, American Medical Association, Cancer, Your Milk on Drugs, Blood Sugar, Wal-Mart, Dairies, Breast Cancer Action, Zyprexa, Obesity, Milking Cancer, Milk Supply, Igf-1, Rbst, Monsanto, Prostate Cancer, Bovine Growth Hormone, Food and Drug Administration, Journal of Reproductive Medicine, Illegally Marketing the Drug, Mastitis, Elanco, Evista, Rbst-Free, Rbgh-Free, Des, Business News

Would Eli Lilly consciously risk our health just to increase their profit? What kind of company are they, and can we trust them with our food?

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Wal-Mart Push Back On After Olympics Bust

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.06.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Week in Review, Wal-Mart Unions, Mayor Daley, Wal-Mart Chicago, Chicago Olympics, Wal Mart Chicago Stores, Howard Brookins, Wal-Mart, South Side Wal-Mart, Chicago News

Now that Mayor Daley's Olympic dream has gone up in flames, a South Side alderman is turning up the heat for City Council approval of Chicago's second...

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11 Things Wal-Mart Has Banned

blogs.static.mentalfloss.com | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Banned Walmart Products, Walmart, Barbie, Superbad, Wal-Mart, Business News

Retail giant Wal-Mart is the world's largest public company, and whether or not you're a fan of shopping at the House that Sam Walton Built, you've go...

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HuffPost Reviews: Alice In Chains, Rosanne Cash, Kiss, and more, plus a Brandi Carlile Interview, and This Week's New Albums

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Peter Gabriel, Black Orpheus, Sarah Cracknell, Linda Ronstadt, Bola Sete, Indigo Girls, Roxy Music, The Eagles, Andrew Gold, Neil Young, Sade, Stan Getz, Alice in Chains, Brandi Carlile, Miles Davis, Cal Tjader, J.D. Souther, Peanuts, Dave Brubeck, Stephen Stills, Lisa Germano, Rosanne Cash, Elton John, Dan Fogelberg, Elvis Costello, Meshell Ndegeocello, Kiss, Joan Armatrading, Jaco Pastorius, Robert Fripp, Wal-Mart, Crosby Stills & Nash, Charles Schulz, Vince Guaraldi, Wilco, Mary Travers, Jeff Tweedy, Robbie Robertson, Erroll Garner, Charlie Brown, Astrid Gilberto, Charlie Mingus, Karla Bonoff, Entertainment News, Joni Mitchell, Rufus Wainwright, Amy Ray, Sam's Club, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News

With Layne Staley's death, Alice In Chains was all but done. But fourteen years later, here we are with something that sounds a lot like what the group would have had they returned to the studio a couple years later.

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Towards a Spectrum of Green

Courtney Reum | Posted 09.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Al Gore, Gary Hirschberg, Green Entrepreneurs, Stoneyfield Farms, Recycling, Acai, Green News, Carbon Footprint, Veev, Alcohol Sector, Wal-Mart, Sustainable Living, Green News

The question isn't black/white or cut/dry, so I think it should actually be rephrased more along the lines of, "Where do you fall in the spectrum of trying to be more 'green'?"

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Disabled man tackles suspected child molester at Westminster Wal-Mart

Fox 31 | Fox 31 | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home

Read More: Disabled, Child Molester, Tackle, Hero, Sexual Assault, Wal-Mart, Handicapped, Colorado, Home News

It was anything but an ordinary Saturday at the Wal-Mart at 92nd and Sheridan....

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Metro Station and Miley & The Rockits Plays Staples Center

Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.23.2009 | Entertainment

Power-pop group Metro Station played the Staples Center Tuesday night and pretty much set the tone for the act that followed... Miley somebody.

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Hector Castro, 82, Charged With Fondling Wal-Mart Patrons

AP | Posted 09.22.2009 | New York

Read More: Hector Castro, Secaucus, New Jersey, Lewdness, Wal-Mart, New York News

TRENTON, N.J. — Police in New Jersey say an 82-year-old sex offender has been charged with fondling female Wal-Mart customers. Hector Castro of...

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