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...Yet, as Charles Fishman wrote in The Wal-Mart Effect in 2006, Walmart derives all of its impact from us, “from our willingness to open our wallets, just a few dollars at a time . . ....
...First, higher wages can make employees more productive — Wal-Mart’s recent wage raises were justified on these grounds....
...Over the last two years Whole Foods’ sales figures have been languishing due to increasing competition in specialty foods from the likes of Kroger, Wal-Mart and Costco....
...Wal-Mart Stores (Retail) 48. Home Depot (Consumer Goods) 49. Yahoo! (Technology) 50. Morgan Stanley (Finance) 51. Discovery Communications (Media) 52. Colgate-Palmolive (Consumer Goods) 53....
...The US mutual fund industry is keeping close tabs on the progress of more than 20 lawsuits that allege companies such as Wal-Mart, Lockheed Martin and Boeing breached their fiduciary duties to employees...
...Blanche Lincoln, senator for Arkansas, the home state of Wal-Mart, has previously supported the bill but has now come out to say it is a distraction....
...“I would say 95 per cent of the people here work at Wal-Mart ISD [Information Services Division],” says Mohammed Naseer Khan, the president of the mosque and himself a Wal-Mart employee....
...There was no mention on Friday of the Employee Free Choice Act....
...Charles Holley, Wal-Mart treasurer, told investors this month that Wal-Mart was “confident” that the bill would not pass Congress....
...… The companies in southern China that make the goods that line the aisles of Tesco and Wal-mart took a quasi-military style of industrial organisation that had worked well in Japan, and later in South...
...The UFCW also points to its effort to represent a group of 10 Wal-Mart meat workers in Texas who voted to unionise in 2000. Wal-Mart subsequently closed its store meat-cutting counters....
...At Wal-Mart’s Superama supermarket in the La Condesa neighbourhood, many shelves lay bare on Tuesday....
...The blue-chip companies listed on the S&P 500 (which include Exxon Mobil, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Wal-Mart and AT&T) receive more than 30 per cent of sales from overseas and just...
...Wal-Mart, the country’s biggest retailer, was downgraded by Citigroup on the mere prospect of the bill becoming law, with the broker warning of a steep rise in costs....
...My favourite malefactor is Thomas Coughlin, former vice-chairman of Wal-Mart....
...Wal-Mart, the largest private employer in the US, which has a staunch anti-union record, has already made its opposition clear....
...Mr Potter said that the Postal Service, which, with a workforce of 652,000 is America’s second largest direct employer after Wal-Mart, had already taken drastic cost-cutting steps over the past few years...
...Almost bankrupt and out of business in 1991, Asda was bought by Wal-Mart for £6.7bn eight years later....
...Agreements were recently concluded at Wal-Mart stores in three cities including Shenzhen....
...Provincial law allows union recognition without a ballot, leading to local union victories against both Wal-Mart and Cintas, a laundry services company....
...Microsoft could perhaps have avoided any legal action if it had taken Wal-Mart’s advice, contained in this internal memo from a Microsoft employee: “[Wal-Mart is] extremely disappointed in the fact that...
...Lee Scott, the chief executive officer of Wal-Mart, the strongly anti-union retailer that is one of the largest private employers in the US, argued that the bill would lead to employees being “subjected...
...They can, if they like, fire all Democrats, and keep only those who swear allegiance to Mike Huckabee (the Wal-Mart candidate for president, the Bible-belting-Baptist from Wal-Mart’s home state of Arkansas...
...Ms Capellaro says Wal-Mart itself has not complained about the use of its trademark name tags, Smiley face and employee vests....
...McDonald’s or Wal-Mart wouldn’t have worked for the witty Coupland. Is life a big deal, or no big deal? Coupland throws back more “meaning of life” maxims than La Rochefoucauld....
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