Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Dec 6, 2009, 5:00 am
Our co-blogger Robert Feinman passed in July. Jonathan has already posted a best of series taken from Robert’s more than 600 posts to The Writing On The Wal. But Robert wrote elsewhere as well a...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Dec 3, 2009, 2:43 pm
…that the Walmart Sustainability Index would turn out to be a gigantic snow job. Oh wait, I did (before I even read it).
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Dec 3, 2009, 2:23 pm
Yet I really want to read this: Wal-Mart’s Facebook page administrator has been regularly posting updates and responding to wall posts. It recently launched a new charity-related application—some...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Dec 2, 2009, 9:59 pm
Black Friday 2009 at an undisclosed Walmart (via the Huffington Post): If Walmart didn’t defraud its Black Friday customers by offering so few of any sale item that they disappear within minute...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Dec 2, 2009, 11:00 am
How do you really feel about Walmart? Here’s your chance to express your true feelings — pro and con — about the world’s largest retailer. Write whatever you like in the comme...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Dec 1, 2009, 10:30 pm
Do I see a trend here?
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Dec 1, 2009, 7:21 am
From Change.org: Deep from the like-that’s-a-surprise news archive comes a report that Wal-Mart, that bastion of low prices and lower morals, is sourcing Christmas lights, paper boxes, and othe...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Nov 29, 2009, 3:30 pm
From ConsumerAffairs.com: Its Black Friday sale has given Walmart a black eye with many of its customers who showed up before the crack of dawn Friday, only to find the sale items they wanted already...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Nov 29, 2009, 5:00 am
Our co-blogger Robert Feinman passed in July. Jonathan has already posted a best of series taken from Robert’s more than 600 posts to The Writing On The Wal. But Robert wrote elsewhere as well a...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Nov 12, 2009, 6:55 pm
Wallet Pop demonstrates that some people believe anything: Survey respondents believe that Walmart offers a perceived savings of 8 to 10%, and for them to return to their old shopping destinations, t...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Nov 12, 2009, 12:44 pm
I know what it is like to have a creepy crowd of shoppers hovering over your shoulder on Christmas eve. I know how they smell blood in the water when they see you walking toward a stack of toys with t...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Nov 12, 2009, 11:06 am
Sunshine Village Mobile Home Park 2765 10th Ave N Palm Springs, Florida. The principle danger of renting is that the land owner rightly gets to decide, within zoning laws, what is the most profitabl...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Nov 11, 2009, 3:58 pm
Jonathan has been all over the Swine Flu and Walmart employees, but this afternoon I came across an interesting story up in Senator Olympia Snowe’s state of Maine where Walmart is opening in-sto...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Nov 11, 2009, 10:42 am
Breaking… Via e-mail from the National Labor Committee: It is not enough, but it is a first step. Last Friday, November 6, on Good Morning America, a Wal-Mart spokeswoman said no Wal-Mart emp...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Nov 11, 2009, 10:00 am
How do you really feel about Walmart? Here’s your chance to express your true feelings — pro and con — about the world’s largest retailer. Write whatever you like in the comme...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Nov 11, 2009, 6:40 am
I’ve seen similar lists posted on the Interwebs before, but I’ve never known anyone with so much free time on their hands that they could amass a list this comprehensive. For the record, I...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Nov 10, 2009, 4:29 pm
Blogger Jill Richardson asks: What does Walmart have to do with improving school lunch and fighting child hunger? Richardson was responding to the witness list for a Senate Agriculture Committee heari...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Nov 10, 2009, 11:39 am
Do you remember that Global Insight study (commissioned by Walmart) which claimed that Walmart saves the average family a gazillion dollars a year? I do. Jeff nails it here. To get the full flavor ...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Nov 10, 2009, 10:44 am
I read the tale of Walmart, Joe Paolucci and Thomas Hitchcock three times and I’m still not convinced that it isn’t a farce. But I can’t find anyone calling bullshit on the story so ...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Nov 6, 2009, 11:32 am
It turns out that Ken Senser, the guy who issued the original attendance policy memo that led to the NLC report, is the guy who runs Walmart’s spy ring! From the Wake-Up Wal-Mart blog: Here...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Nov 6, 2009, 10:03 am
Good Morning America covers the Swine Flu story here, and despite Robin Roberts’ best efforts it looks really brutal for Bentonville. PS If anybody has a copy of the new memo, would you send...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Nov 5, 2009, 2:10 pm
As ABC News picks up the Walmart spreads swine flu story, we get this classic example of Wal-Flack double speak: “As in the past, Walmart is encouraging our associates who may be ill to stay at...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Nov 4, 2009, 11:05 am
Workplace Prof Blog on the question of getting paid via debit card: I understand the consumer adovocates point and I appreciate the environmental angle, but as an employment law professor I wonder (o...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Nov 4, 2009, 10:00 am
How do you really feel about Walmart? Here’s your chance to express your true feelings — pro and con — about the world’s largest retailer. Write whatever you like in the comme...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Nov 3, 2009, 12:46 pm
If this doesn’t get a conversation started, I’m turning in my Walmart blogging merit badge. From my friends at the National Labor Committee: Punishing workers for taking sick leave puts ...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Nov 1, 2009, 7:36 pm
…it wouldn’t be so slow about eradicating plastic bags. In a post explaining Target’s new program on this front, Kathryn Robbins writes: But where is the nation’s biggest retaile...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Oct 30, 2009, 10:10 am
There’s part of me that reads this and just yawns: Walmart has severed ties with one of the country’s major blueberry growers after an ABC News investigation found children, including one...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Oct 28, 2009, 3:25 pm
Try cremation instead. It’s also the greener way to go, but apparently Walmart only cares about the environment selectively.
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Oct 19, 2009, 9:46 am
When the left hand and the right hand don’t talk to each other, unintended consequences arise. Last week Walmart instituted a price war with Amazon that is shaking publishing. Price wars scare i...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Oct 19, 2009, 9:27 am
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 ...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Oct 19, 2009, 9:04 am
Now I recognize that Walmart executives did not sit around some conference table and nefariously plot how best to rip off the former governor of Alaska, but I find a certain perverse pleasure in knowi...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Oct 18, 2009, 5:14 pm
Much in the manner of my dear friend Jeff, I read this, and immediately thought of this. I’m guessing it has something to do with all that fatty meat…
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Oct 18, 2009, 5:00 am
Our co-blogger Robert Feinman passed in July. Jonathan has already posted a best of series taken from Robert’s more than 600 posts to The Writing On The Wal. But Robert wrote elsewhere as well a...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Oct 17, 2009, 12:28 pm
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 shopping...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Oct 14, 2009, 11:00 am
How do you really feel about Walmart? Here’s your chance to express your true feelings — pro and con — about the world’s largest retailer. Write whatever you like in the comme...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Oct 14, 2009, 10:01 am
Um…a non-profit venture which we can vote to change, unlike a company where the richest family in the world controls the majority of the stock.
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Oct 13, 2009, 4:43 pm
Apparently, Walmart is engaging massive audiences online using social media. How do we know? Walmart told some blogger and then everybody Twittered it (see the comments). Personally, I’m sk...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Oct 13, 2009, 3:40 pm
The very brief note from the Selma, Alabama, Times Journal concernig the change in hours at a Walmart, specially as the company prepares for its most important sales season, raises several questions i...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Oct 12, 2009, 10:46 am
Jonathan and I write about Walmart week in and week out, but one of the phenomenon that I’ve noticed over the years (yes years) that we’ve been doing this is how often I find posts about W...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Oct 11, 2009, 8:19 pm
…except this: According to reports by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. and others, factory farming has made animal agriculture the No. 1 contributor to global warming (it is si...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Oct 11, 2009, 7:02 pm
And to think I was picking on Michael Moore for giving us old news about Walmart. Here’s a press release from Wake Forest University: As Wal-Mart continues to encounter opposition to new store...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Oct 11, 2009, 7:56 am
As the stockholders of Nutrisystem know, getting into Walmart is a very big deal for your company and your company’s financial future. But in no relationship does, or can, Walmart give a shit ab...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Oct 11, 2009, 5:00 am
Our co-blogger Robert Feinman passed in July. Jonathan has already posted a best of series taken from Robert’s more than 600 posts to The Writing On The Wal. But Robert wrote elsewhere as well a...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Oct 10, 2009, 10:59 pm
There are sound stages on Hollywood’s back lots smaller than Bentonvile’s behemoths, so it’s no surprise that budding video talent has been sneaking cameras in at odd hours. And now ...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Sep 18, 2009, 2:19 pm
Yesterday Jonathan and I both took note of Seth’s 11 interesting finds in the Beijing Walmart. Today at Mental Floss, Ethan Trex notes 11 things Walmart has banned. But what I found amazing is w...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Sep 17, 2009, 7:05 pm
There’s a letter in the Chico (CA) Enterprise Record that I find very interesting: Here’s an argument that’s going to blow the Birkenstocks off the feet of some of our economically ...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Sep 17, 2009, 2:05 pm
Yes, I know Jeff beat me to this, but I still want to write about my favorite: They cut up meat in front of you. A whole pig was being butchered on a table. A roast duck was being sliced for packagin...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Sep 17, 2009, 1:40 pm
We haven’t heard much from China in recent months. Blogger Seth shares his list of eleven interesting features he observed at the Walmart in Beijing, China, while in search for a new (cheap plas...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Sep 17, 2009, 5:48 am
From a public relations standpoint I’ve never understood why Walmart hasn’t always had a no-photographs/no-videos policy. When has any picture or video taken inside a Walmart been a good f...
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