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03 Feb 2010 22:35

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Biz, Tech: Why does Wal-Mart have a limit on buying new release DVDs?

  • five the number of copies of a newly released DVD you can buy from Wal-Mart; Target also does this
  • 40% the percentage of DVDs that kiosk company Redbox buys from Wal-Mart or Target; hmm source
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24 Jan 2010 21:47

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Biz: No Sams allowed: Wal-Mart lays off a ton of Sam’s Club employees

  • 11,200 workers aren’t good enough to be in Sam’s Club anymore
  • 10% of Sam’s workers are going away, mostly product demonstrators
  • 10% of Sam’s workers are apparently product demonstrators source
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14 Dec 2009 20:40

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Music: Chris Brown is a whiny brat who just quit Twitter over being stupid

  • dumb Brown checked a Wal-Mart to see if they stocked his new album, “Graffiti.” “The didnt even have my album in the back … not on shelves, saw for myself,” he tweeted.
  • dumber Wal-Mart refuted his claims, saying that they in fact did stock the album. Clearly being pulled back by his handlers, he quit his Twitter account earlier today. Ta-da! source
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27 Nov 2009 17:50

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Biz: Idiots at the Upland, Calif. Wal-Mart: Way to be bad shoppers/human beings

  • This was without a doubt the worst I’ve ever seen it. They wouldn’t let people line up. They were belligerent. They just bombarded the store.
  • A Upland, Calif. Wal-Mart employee • Describing the scene at the store. The employee has been around the block, working a dozen Black Fridays. They had to close the store for three hours this morning because people were ripping up merchandise, fighting and generally being crazy. You know, there are better ways to get deals than this. source
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24 Nov 2009 10:53

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Biz: Amazon and Wal-Mart looking like old-school boxing foes

In this corner, an online mega-retailer that has a massive reach. In that corner, a brick-and-mortar retailer with a similar reach. Who will win your holiday dollars? source
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14 Nov 2009 12:25

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Biz: Wal-Mart’s supplier credit-rating program genius, say smart people

  • I would expect a retailer’s credit quality always to be taken into account when a firm is lending money against that retailer’s receivables. If a vendor is owed the money by Wal-Mart that is very different than if a vendor is owed the money by [bankrupt] Linens N Things, for example.
  • GimmeCredit analyst Carol Levenson • Describing how Wal-Mart’s new policy, which allows suppliers to get credit on the back of the company’s very strong credit rating, is genius. Obviously, not every supplier can count on retailers to bail them out like this. But many are in a position to do the same thing, including Target, Kohl’s, TJX Cos. (the parent of TJMaxx, Marshall’s and other similar stores), Home Depot, Lowe’s and Walgreens. Considering that suppliers are likely in the tank in this economy, this could save them. • source
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07 Sep 2009 09:57

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Biz: I love lamp: Consumers less materialistic based on silly lamp choices

  • 78% of those polled chose Wal-Mart over Tiffany source
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18 Aug 2009 10:59

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Politics: Glenn Beck’s political ramblings: Not even Wal-Mart likes them

  • Wal-Mart, CVS, Best Buy and many more aren’t advertising with Beck. The Fox News host has a pretty serious issues with advertisers at the moment, weeks after calling Barack Obama a “racist” on his show, causing ColorOfChange.org to start a campaign against him. The list of advertisers is shrinking fast. No word on what the Sham-Wow guy plans to do yet. source
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10 Aug 2009 10:46

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U.S.: Excessive police force on YouTube, example No. 2,307,539

  • Police brutality is easier to track thanks to YouTube. In this video, a police officer at a Wal-Mart slammed an elderly woman to the ground. Which seems a wee bet excessive, due to the fact that, well, it’s an old woman. She was carrying a knife, yes, but this doesn’t seem to be the best way to handle something like this. source
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08 Jul 2009 11:00

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Biz: Fortune’s Global 500 proves Big Oil, Wal-Mart has us at the throats

  • seven of the top ten companies on the list are oil companies, with Shell being the biggest; Toyota is No. 10
  • third the rank of Wal-Mart, the highest-ranked non-oil-related company on the Fortune Global 500 source
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