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Al Norman: Wal-Mart Walking On Sunshine

As many as 70 elderly and disabled residents of Palm Springs, Florida may soon be evicted to make way for another Wal-Mart superstore. The hapless residents of Sunshine Village are watching as the sun goes down on their mobile home park. This ...

From AL NORMAN, Huffington Post,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Wal-Mart,  Legal Aid Society

Al Norman: Can Wal-Mart Think Smaller?

The words "small" and "Wal-Mart" don't fit well together. Yet the dominant retailer on the globe has been telling Wall Street analysts for several years running that small is beautiful. Last year this time, at an analyst's meeting, Tom Shoewe, Wal-Mart' ...

From AL NORMAN, Huffington Post,  22 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Wal-Mart,  Merrill Lynch,  Tesco P.L.C.

Al Norman: Another Wal-Mart Shoplifter Is Killed

That's the international policy apparently at Wal-Mart stores, where reports indicate another alleged shoplifter has died at the hands of a gang of overzealous Wal-Mart workers--this time in China. According to the Associated Press report this week, Yu ...

From AL NORMAN, Huffington Post,  8 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Wal-Mart

Al Norman: Save Money. Shop Fung-Mart

While many American retailers are just one lackluster back-to-school season away from disaster, the malingering recession has been very good to some retail manufacturers---especially in China. American shoppers at Wal-Mart have made investors in Hong ...

From AL NORMAN, Huffington Post,  20 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Wal-Mart,  Talbots, Inc.,  Hang Seng Index,  Harvard University,  Levi Strauss

Al Norman: Wal-Mart Picks Free Speech Fight With Union

This news story out of Canada belongs in the "circular" file. Wal-Mart is trying to limit the use of circular and oval objects. Over the years, the giant retailer, in exercising its own brand of censorship, has forced recording artists to change ...

From AL NORMAN, Huffington Post,  30 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Wal-Mart

Al Norman: Wal-Mart Pays $45 Million For "No Wrongdoing"

It was announced this week that Wal-Mart has agreed to shell out up to $35 million to a class of its employees in Washington State who sued the company for denying them rest breaks and meal breaks, and for forcing them to work off the clock, which is ...

From AL NORMAN, Huffington Post,  23 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Wal-Mart

Al Norman: Wal-Mart Pulls Misleading Ads -- Again

The driving mission of the Wal-Mart corporation is to make money by saving its customers money. "At Wal-Mart," the company says, "everything we do flows from our purpose of saving people money so they can live better." This week, Wal-Mart's ...

From AL NORMAN, Huffington Post,  27 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Wal-Mart

Al Norman: Wal-Mart Serves Free Ice Cream To An Obese Nation

It's free ice cream day at Wal-Mart today! What could be wrong with that? Wal-Mart wants Americans to stop going to ice cream parlors or restaurants for ice cream. For the second year in a row, Wal-Mart is getting sweet headlines in the media for ...

From AL NORMAN, Huffington Post,  30 May 2009
Related Topics: Wal-Mart

Al Norman: OSHA, D.A. Trampled By Wal-Mart

In a remarkable role reversal, Wal-Mart has managed to walk all over two agencies that were supposed to sanction the giant retailer for the tragic trampling death of one of its employees on Black Friday last November. Six months after the death of a ...

From AL NORMAN, Huffington Post,  26 May 2009
Related Topics: Wal-Mart,  Kathleen Rice,  Vornado Realty Trust

Al Norman: Court Says No To $33 Million Tax Rebate For Wal-Mart

North Carolina is a state whose textile industry has been economically undone by Wal-Mart's China First procurement policy. As if those employment losses weren't bad enough, the state has also been engaged in a multi-year legal battle to get the giant ...

From AL NORMAN, Huffington Post,  19 May 2009
Related Topics: Wal-Mart,  Wall Street Journal

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