I finally got around to reading Ellen Ruppel Shell’s Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture. The book goes far beyond Walmart, but its Walmart sections (as the review I quoted a few weeks ag...

Walmart CEO Mike Duke is taking meeting his customers to a whole new level. Speaking at a Goldman Sachs retail conference, Duke said he likes visiting Walmart customers in their homes to “see wh...

Did you know that you can review meat products on Walmart’s corporate web site? The problem is that I can’t for the life of me figure out where someone would go to write a new review. UP...

Charlie Law at the Hill’s Pundits Blog: A couple of years ago, one of the chain’s most successful ad campaigns showed in dollars and cents how much you could save if you did all your sho...

Last week I wrote about the preponderance of non-Walmart-related blogs finding fault with the Bentonvile Behemoth. Yesterday I found one more, but it made me think that my sampling is probably skewed ...

I asked readers to send me links to blogs that featured posts from happy Walmart shoppers. So far no one has raised their hand, but in the interest of fairness, I did find a happy Walmart blogger in A...

If you tell a lie loud enough and long enough, that portion of President Abraham Lincoln’s foolable people will believe that black is white, up is down, war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignoran...