I really haven’t paid attention to stockcar racing since the days of Junior Johnson and Fireball Roberts, but I do understand the attraction and it amazes me that anyone could imagine that Walmart won’t be all over NASCAR in a very big way. Yet, at least one fan (NASCAR, not Walmart) thinks differently. From Frontstretch: [...]
What caused New York state senate democrats to return a check for $15,000 to Walmart. Did someone grow a pair and say no to corporate influence? Was a decision made that the check wasn’t big enough? Or, my choice, was the grief just not worth it? From the New York Post: State Senate Democrats have [...]
Walmart has a long history of promoting its acres of parking lot as free stops for RVers. The policy builds good will and guarantees sales to travellers who need to stock up on all manner of foods, beverages and cheap plastic craps from China. I don’t think Walmart was thinking about homeless people, however. From [...]
The numbers are not all that close, but retailers Walmart, Carrefour and Tesco are in a race to grab as much of the lucrative Chinese retail market. The Communists have stolen a march on the Capitalists, playing catch-up is a race for second place. From China Beverage News: U.S. retailing giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. signed [...]
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Our co-blogger Robert Feinman passed in July 2009. Jonathan has already posted a best of series taken from Robert’s more than 600 posts to The Writing On The Wal. But Robert wrote elsewhere as well and, for some time, I’ve enjoyed a Sunday morning tradition of reading the essays he posted to his personal blog. [...]
There is no one covering the Supreme Court whose words I trust more than those of Lyle Denniston. His decades-long record as a journalist is untouchable, his clarity of delivery at time enough to make me wonder I bother writing. I was watching to see what he would have to say on Dukes. No excerpt [...]
Free-market enthusiasts tend to sputter when asked to explain why, in a free market, their favorite business needs to suck at the public teat. Politics is not about stopping redistribution of wealth, its about deciding where you think the money should go. From The Houston Chronicle: The city is negotiating a deal with the developer [...]
Unlike Jonathan, I still eat a bit of meat, not every day, but enough to put me squarely in the omnivore category. If the only place that I could buy meat was Walmart, however, I would be devoted to my vegetables, fruits and nuts in no time. From The United States Department of Agriculture: Zemco [...]
To hell with appeals and district courts. Walmart need to squash the Dukes bug as quickly as it can lest it actually be held responsible for its alleged reprehensible behavior in a court of law. No, Walmart believes in going right to the Supremes. From Reuters: The world’s largest retailer has asked the U.S. Supreme [...]
How do you really feel about Walmart? Here’s your chance to express your true feelings — pro and con — about the world’s largest retailer. Write whatever you like in the comments section and engage your fellow readers in the conversation. Jeff Hess: Have Coffee Will Write. Share on Facebook
While I, and others here, maintain a tight focus on Dukes v. Walmart, the case will almost certainly go before the Chief Justice Roberts’ version of the U.S. Supreme Court, and the players are positioning themselves for that final showdown. From Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog: Dukes is likely to affect certification of antitrust class [...]
Normally if I have an update for a story, I simply add it to the post, but last Friday I wrote about what I labeled the Not-A-Walmart-Shopper Credo and this morning I found a similar piece written by my friend Mano Singham. Mano was addressing incoming freshmen at Case University here in Cleveland. He said, [...]
My coverage of Walmart in Russia is perhaps the most noise about nothing. I first wrote about a Walmart invasion way back in January 2007, it has been one long bit of Macbeth’s sound and fury. Now we have a ménage à trois with Walmart, X5 and Kopeika. From Reuters: Russian retailer Kopeika is in [...]
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