Lovely lovely story….seems Wal-Mart does not pay any of its teenage baggers in Mexico any money to work there, they work for tips only. Sure, it’s legal down there, but still…from MSNBC: “Wal-Mart prides itself on cutting costs at home and abroad, and its Mexican operations are no exception. That approach has helped the Arkansas-based [...]
On Friday, you might remember that I linked to a story about how Wal-Mart was rethinking its strategy on selling organic food. The author of the article said that Wal-Mart was going to stop selling organics because…no one was buying them. Well, Wal-Mart released a letter yesterday “fighting back” against this article, and it is [...]
And workers still get nothing but crap. From Wal-Mart Watch: Let me get this straight. In 2006, Wal-Mart tallied its worst same-store sales growth in 27 years. The company’s stock price has remained stagnant for years. And, public opinion has taken a serious turn for the worse. The company has slashed labor costs by capping [...]
As I mentioned the other day, Wal-Mart might have been exposed for labeling and selling non-organic foods as organic. Well, now the USDA is getting involved and it looks like they are going to investigate the fact that Wal-Mart sells products with the word organic on the sign…that are not organic. See anything weird about [...]
Oh say it isn’t so Wal-Mart! Please prove to us all that you really are a decent, fun loving, environmentally friendly store! Seems that Wal-Mart might be in some deep trouble after the Cornucopia Institute discovered that they were placing “natural” produce in the organic section, and mislabeling non-organic food as organic. From The Independent [...]
Well, it looks like my opinion on Wal-Mart going organic has turned out to be true. A new white paper by the Cornucopia Institute accuses Wal-Mart of lessening organic standards in their food products by sourcing the products from industrial farms and even foreign countries such as China. Somehow, I knew that Wal-Mart going organic [...]
It is pretty common knowledge that Wal-mart offers such low prices in their stores by both forcing suppliers prices down and underpaying their employees, both in dollars and benefits. And according to SOME PEOPLE , people deserve to make such low pay and its their own fault they do. Well, its not ok, and neither [...]
