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Wal-Mart related links and articles
Wal-Mart related links and articles
Battle of the Big Box
Description: Austin Chronicle July 11, 2003 - Enviros and Southwest neighbors find a common cause: fighting Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton once pledged to stay out of any community where the company wasn't wanted. If that's still true, then the nation's largest retailer and employer might want to reconsider its plans for MoPac and Slaughter Lane.
Dead Peasant Life Insurance Policies
Description: In violation of Texas law, Wal-Mart has been taking out life insurance policies on its employees without their knowledge and naming the company as beneficiary.
The Domain of Wal-Mart
Description: Austin Chronicle May 30, 2003 - Residents of neighborhoods located near the Wal-Mart site, as well as local environmentalists, are gearing up for a campaign to get the world's largest retailer to consider locating elsewhere.
How Wal-Mart is Remaking our World
Description: By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown April 26, 2002 - Wal-Mart cultivates an aw-shucks, weÃre-just-folks-from-Arkansas image of neighborly small-town shopkeepers trying to sell stuff cheaply to you and yours. Behind its soft homespun ads, however, is what one union leader calls "this devouring beast" of a corporation that ruthlessly stomps on workers, neighborhoods, competitors, and suppliers.
SW Austin land cleared for retail
Description: Austin Business Journal, Feb. 21, 2003 - A judge's ruling is clearing the way for 25 acres at William Cannon Drive and MoPac Expressway to be developed for retail without following the stringent Save Our Springs Ordinance. (registration required)
Wal-Mart or No, Council Defers to Endeavor's Domain
Description: Austin Chronicle May 23, 2003 - On the environmental side, the council let it be known that developers who help pave over the Edwards Aquifer can still get tax rebates -- a notion that Slusher and many others oppose.
Wal-Mart Supercenter over the aquifer draws massive criticism
Description: Good Life Magazine August 2003 - It's enough to make Sam Walton roll over in his grave. That's what one man in a crowd of almost six hundred people yelled out at a July 2 town hall meeting called to discuss Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s plan to build a new Supercenter at MoPac Expressway and Slaughter Lane. The irate citizen who lives near that site claimed Sam Walton promised he would never build a store where it wasn't wanted. To which the company's community affairs representative at the town hall meeting, Daphne Davis Moore, replied, "We recognize there is opposition to this project, but there is also support."
Wal-Mart Watch
Description: A WalMart information website that is sponsored by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) to give voice to the concerns of WalMart associates and to the concerns of the communities where WalMart operates.
Women and Wal-Mart
Description: San Francisco Chronicle June 30, 2003 - Although women make up more than 72 percent of the Wal-Mart sales force, they hold only one-third of the management jobs. Men hold 90 percent of Wal-Mart's store manager positions and only one woman is among Wal-Mart's 20 top officers.
Women vs. Wal-Mart
Description: FORTUNE Monday, July 7, 2003 - How can the retailer reconcile its storied cultureóbuilt on inspirational leadership, autonomy, and trustówith the anger of some of its female workers?
The Great Wal-Mart Wars
Description: Would you like a Wal-Mart "supercenter" store to move into your community? Think of the low prices and the convenience of one-stop shopping! You just park once and get whatever you need -- groceries, drugs, plants, toys, dog food, even eyeglasses. Sounds great, doesn't it? So why have nearly 200 communities refused to allow such big-box stores to enter their lives? Do they know something we don't?
Wal-Mart site plan denied
Description: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review The North Huntingdon Township commissioners gave Wal-Mart the boot Wednesday, setting the stage for a possible court challenge.
Wal-Mart Wages Don't Support Wal-Mart Workers
Description: Wal-Mart is the nation's biggest employer, the low-price champion, and a seller of just about everything. A healthy family with a roof over its head could supply virtually all of its other basic monthly needs with one stop at a Wal-Mart Supercenter like the one here in Salina, Kansas. To me, that raised a question: Can a family whose breadwinner works at Wal-Mart afford to supply its minimum needs by shopping there?
Battle of the Big Box
Description: Austin Chronicle July 11, 2003 - Enviros and Southwest neighbors find a common cause: fighting Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton once pledged to stay out of any community where the company wasn't wanted. If that's still true, then the nation's largest retailer and employer might want to reconsider its plans for MoPac and Slaughter Lane.
Dead Peasant Life Insurance Policies
Description: In violation of Texas law, Wal-Mart has been taking out life insurance policies on its employees without their knowledge and naming the company as beneficiary.
The Domain of Wal-Mart
Description: Austin Chronicle May 30, 2003 - Residents of neighborhoods located near the Wal-Mart site, as well as local environmentalists, are gearing up for a campaign to get the world's largest retailer to consider locating elsewhere.
How Wal-Mart is Remaking our World
Description: By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown April 26, 2002 - Wal-Mart cultivates an aw-shucks, weÃre-just-folks-from-Arkansas image of neighborly small-town shopkeepers trying to sell stuff cheaply to you and yours. Behind its soft homespun ads, however, is what one union leader calls "this devouring beast" of a corporation that ruthlessly stomps on workers, neighborhoods, competitors, and suppliers.
SW Austin land cleared for retail
Description: Austin Business Journal, Feb. 21, 2003 - A judge's ruling is clearing the way for 25 acres at William Cannon Drive and MoPac Expressway to be developed for retail without following the stringent Save Our Springs Ordinance. (registration required)
Wal-Mart or No, Council Defers to Endeavor's Domain
Description: Austin Chronicle May 23, 2003 - On the environmental side, the council let it be known that developers who help pave over the Edwards Aquifer can still get tax rebates -- a notion that Slusher and many others oppose.
Wal-Mart Supercenter over the aquifer draws massive criticism
Description: Good Life Magazine August 2003 - It's enough to make Sam Walton roll over in his grave. That's what one man in a crowd of almost six hundred people yelled out at a July 2 town hall meeting called to discuss Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s plan to build a new Supercenter at MoPac Expressway and Slaughter Lane. The irate citizen who lives near that site claimed Sam Walton promised he would never build a store where it wasn't wanted. To which the company's community affairs representative at the town hall meeting, Daphne Davis Moore, replied, "We recognize there is opposition to this project, but there is also support."
Wal-Mart Watch
Description: A WalMart information website that is sponsored by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) to give voice to the concerns of WalMart associates and to the concerns of the communities where WalMart operates.
Women and Wal-Mart
Description: San Francisco Chronicle June 30, 2003 - Although women make up more than 72 percent of the Wal-Mart sales force, they hold only one-third of the management jobs. Men hold 90 percent of Wal-Mart's store manager positions and only one woman is among Wal-Mart's 20 top officers.
Women vs. Wal-Mart
Description: FORTUNE Monday, July 7, 2003 - How can the retailer reconcile its storied cultureóbuilt on inspirational leadership, autonomy, and trustówith the anger of some of its female workers?
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The Great Wal-Mart Wars
Description: Would you like a Wal-Mart "supercenter" store to move into your community? Think of the low prices and the convenience of one-stop shopping! You just park once and get whatever you need -- groceries, drugs, plants, toys, dog food, even eyeglasses. Sounds great, doesn't it? So why have nearly 200 communities refused to allow such big-box stores to enter their lives? Do they know something we don't?
Wal-Mart site plan denied
Description: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review The North Huntingdon Township commissioners gave Wal-Mart the boot Wednesday, setting the stage for a possible court challenge.
Wal-Mart Wages Don't Support Wal-Mart Workers
Description: Wal-Mart is the nation's biggest employer, the low-price champion, and a seller of just about everything. A healthy family with a roof over its head could supply virtually all of its other basic monthly needs with one stop at a Wal-Mart Supercenter like the one here in Salina, Kansas. To me, that raised a question: Can a family whose breadwinner works at Wal-Mart afford to supply its minimum needs by shopping there?
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