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NYC Anti-Wal-Mart Protesters Are, In Reality, Anti-Wal-Mart Protesters

This has been going around "the blogosphere" lately (like "the Information Super Highway," I expect that this term will become increasingly embarrassing to most of us as we get older and Al Gore claims to have created it) and it's not quite what...

2:20 AM on Wed May 24 2006, by consumerist.com, 227 views, 5 comments

Wal-Mart has launched a personal finance website at walmart.com/savemore. It offers tips and saving advice, while also pushing Wal-Mart's own money services and weekly specials. [Wal-Mart]

11:13 AM on Tue May 20 2008, by Chris Walters, 530 views, 10 comments

Majority Of New Yorkers Love/Hate Wal-Mart... In The Same Poll!

According to this Quinnipiac University poll, over 50% of New Yorker's supported Wal-Mart infilitrating Gotham. But the Neighborhood Retail Alliance picks apart thier findings and comes to the opposite conclusion: most New Yorkers don't want...

3:20 PM on Thu Feb 9 2006, by consumerist.com, 108 views, Comment

Wal-Mart is cutting down its inventory (fewer clothing styles) and remodeling its older stores (lower shelves and clearer signage) to spur more shopping. [Reuters]

1:02 PM on Mon Jun 9 2008, by Chris Walters, 1,129 views, 23 comments

Walmart's 32 Year Viral Proliferation

From The University of Minnesota's Thomas Holmes' paper The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density. Via Box Tank.

7:05 AM on Mon May 8 2006, by consumerist.com, 8,457 views, 12 comments

Wal-Mart Takes Layaway Behind The Chemical Sheds

And, just in time for Christmas, Wal-Mart officially slits the Layaway Service's throat.

12:17 PM on Thu Oct 5 2006, by consumerist.com, 395 views, 11 comments

Man Bitten By Rattlesnake At Wal-Mart

The AP reports that a man was bitten by a snake inside the garden center at Wal-Mart in Pembroke Pines, FL. The unidentified 42-year-old man was taken to the hospital and received antivenin for the pygmy rattler bite. Fortunately, these bites...

9:23 PM on Sun Jul 6 2008, by Jay Slatkin, 9,092 views, 40 comments

Wal-Marting Across America, Banned Pix Revealed

Walmart's minions may have pulled down the photographers blog that was a blatant front for Edelman PR. But that doesn't stop us or you from using the magic of Google cache to see what flackery filled the pages of Wal-Marting Across America.

1:51 PM on Wed Oct 11 2006, by Ben Popken, 6,222 views, 6 comments

Wal-Mart Will Help The Puny Humans Compete

In one of the weirdest business moves we've ever seen, Wal-Mart has decided to award business grants to their own small competitors, even as the company tries to smash them, Incredible Hulk style, into a bloody patina.

4:31 AM on Thu Apr 6 2006, by consumerist.com, 175 views, 4 comments

The Great Wal-Mart of China

"Wal-Mart Stores plans to hire up to 150,000 employees in China over the next five years, five times the number of workers it currently has there, as it expands its number of stores, the company said Monday."

12:00 PM on Tue Mar 21 2006, by popkin, 441 views, 1 comment