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Sign the letter to the new Wal-Mart CEO

Feb 03, 2009

Today, Wal-Mart has a new CEO. Mike Duke has the historic opportunity to turn the page, and finally start doing things the right way at Wal-Mart. Sign our open letter of support to Wal-Mart workers, outlining what their new boss can do – starting today – to let them live better, too. We’ll be posting the letter on our website, and sending it to every employee that we talk with — and we’ll make sure to send Mike Duke a signed copy as well.

Follow this link to sign the letter: http://action.walmartwatch.com/page/s/mikeduke

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Bruce Springsteen: "It was a mistake." (Doing business with Wal-Mart)

Feb 02, 2009

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In the New York Times Sunday Bruce Springsteen expressed his regret on having his new album for sale exclusively at Wal-Mart.

“given its labor history, it was something that if we’d thought about it a little longer, we’d have done something different.” He added, “It was a mistake….”

You can read the entire piece here.

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Wal-Mart Daily News…Bruce Springsteen regrets business with Wal-Mart

Feb 02, 2009

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Bruce Springsteen regrets the deal he made with Wal-Mart….

Bruce Springsteen calls his exclusive Wal-Mart deal a “mistake”…“given its labor history, it was something that if we’d thought about it a little longer, we’d have done something different.”

Netflix, the Web’s No. 1 video rental service, and Wal-Mart are being accused in a class-action lawsuit of unfairly setting prices for their rental services.

More violence at Wal-Mart.

A woman was found dead at Wal-Mart in Albany.

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The value of his Wal-Mart holdings went up $30.9 million to $202.6 million.

Jan 23, 2009

Image via WikipediaLee Scott scores again, even in a ‘recession’, a CNN Money Blog analyzes how bad CEO’s did in the market, then they look at Lee Scott…

Wal-Mart continues world domination, acquiring over 58% of a Chilean supermarket.

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Headlines…

Dec 19, 2008

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Wal-Mart refused to allow a Salvation Army Volunteer to ring his holiday bell inside the store in the midst of a blizzard.

Wal-Mart may try to open a second Chicago store…

An Arab- and Muslim-American man filed a $12 million lawsuit Thursday against a Wal-Mart store that caters to his community — saying employees discriminated against him and fired him because of his background.

About 150 workers at a Wal-Mart store here became the ninth group of Canadian Wal-Mart employees to be granted union certification, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union said Thursday.
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Sep 29, 2008

Greetings,

We haven’t had a legitimate update in about a month, but here’s what’s been going on in Wal-Mart world….

Massachusetts has been deprived of $600M in unpaid fines by Wal-Mart.

They’ve pulled the plug on their DRM music system. Leaving all customers who tried to buy music legally confused…

They just announced today, they will close 20 stores and cut its work force by about 350 in Japan.

Somehow they’re selling illegal wood, smuggled in from Russia, as toilet seats. Reported by the New Yorker.

Wal-Mart stores will now strictly focus on customer experiences.

They’re also being sued for a variety of violations in NJ.

The Illinois Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued Wal-Mart in federal court on behalf of a Rockford woman who claims she was fired because she had epilepsy.

They were also paying employees in store vouchers as payment in Mexico

“Always Low Prices” isn’t always a good thing for Wal-Mart, apparently. The discounter was warned by Puerto Rican authorities on Thursday that it was selling milk too cheaply on the island.

Thats just one month. wow.