Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Jan 23, 2012, 10:25 am
I do love it when Walmart shows up in the most unusual places like this analogy concerning the now defeated Stop Online Piracy Act and the soon to be defeated Protect IP Act. Walmart is such a universal bad actor that it has become the villian of choice around the world. From Julian Sanchez: As a ...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Oct 21, 2011, 3:56 pm
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Aug 14, 2011, 6:12 pm
Jonathan and I have referred to Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, numerous times. The book is 10 years old now and Ehrenreich has written a afterward for the anniversary addition. This paragraph leapt out at me. Ehrenreich writes: In 2000, I had been able to ...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Aug 3, 2011, 12:59 pm
If you want to bury your story from the media, the best way to do it is to schedule an event on a Friday afternoon in Washington D.C., all but guaranteeing that everyone has gone home and that other stories will have popped up before Monday rolls around. Making Change at Walmart and Jobs with Justi...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Aug 3, 2011, 12:00 pm
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 comments section and engage your fellow readers in the conversation. Jeff Hess: Have Coffee Will Write.
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Jul 29, 2011, 12:10 pm
Do you suppose the security guard saw a couple of furner lookin’ folks and just knew that they were up to no good? Or perhaps the guard was upset with all the cash the socialists in Washington were giving furners when he had to make do with a job as a Walmart security guard. From The Courthouse N...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Jul 27, 2011, 12:00 pm
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 comments section and engage your fellow readers in the conversation. Jeff Hess: Have Coffee Will Write.
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Jul 26, 2011, 3:36 pm
It’s better than you think. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have temporarily resurrected this blog in order to post it.
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Jun 23, 2011, 7:49 am
[Update at 0707 on Friday, 24 June: REDACTED. Those of you who might have stopped in yesterday would have read a longer version of this post that involved an email from an intern who, it turns out, got ahead of himself and requested a takedown. I decided to redact the post, not because of any error ...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Apr 27, 2011, 12:00 pm
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 comments section and engage your fellow readers in the conversation. Jeff Hess: Have Coffee Will Write.
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Apr 20, 2011, 12:00 pm
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 comments section and engage your fellow readers in the conversation. Jeff Hess: Have Coffee Will Write.
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Apr 13, 2011, 12:00 pm
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 comments section and engage your fellow readers in the conversation. Jeff Hess: Have Coffee Will Write.
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Apr 11, 2011, 8:22 am
Back on the 4th of March I Went Thinking, a personal retreat I periodically engage in to get away from the Internet and all distractions electronic, to enter myself and ponder. I did so because the demands of making a living suddenly became intense and I had no energy for either Have Coffee Will Wri...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Apr 6, 2011, 6:44 pm
I’ve actually learned to use the Twitter and for the first time since I’ve been on that site Walmart is trending, which means that lots of people are tweeting about it. Oddly enough, most of these tweets seem to consist of people asking “Why is Wal-Mart trending?” The whole story makes m...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Apr 6, 2011, 12:00 pm
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 comments section and engage your fellow readers in the conversation. Jeff Hess: Have Coffee Will Write.
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Mar 31, 2011, 7:50 am
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Mar 30, 2011, 12:00 pm
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 comments section and engage your fellow readers in the conversation. Jeff Hess: Have Coffee Will Write.
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Mar 30, 2011, 5:10 am
ABC News again, on yesterday’s Dukes argument before the Supreme Court: Several Supreme Court justices seemed skeptical today of the arguments made by an attorney on behalf of female plaintiffs that they should be allowed to band together and sue Walmart for sex discrimination. Nobody claims to ...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Mar 28, 2011, 4:13 pm
Actually, they’ll hear arguments tomorrow, but the articles on the case have already started appearing in great numbers. My favorite is this one at ABC News because it has so much of Walmart’s side of the case (which, by the way, is just about class certification rather than discrimination). W...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Mar 23, 2011, 12:00 pm
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 comments section and engage your fellow readers in the conversation. Jeff Hess: Have Coffee Will Write.
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Mar 16, 2011, 12:00 pm
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 comments section and engage your fellow readers in the conversation. Jeff Hess: Have Coffee Will Write.
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Mar 15, 2011, 5:33 pm
My source for internal Walmart stuff has sent me a copy of the March 2011 issue of Walmart World. It features a story about Valeda Snyder, a Missouri associate who has been working for fifty years. She’s 84 and it was a Ben Franklin when Sam’s brother hired her. You can imagine how it reads, ...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Mar 9, 2011, 2:53 pm
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Mar 9, 2011, 12:00 pm
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 comments section and engage your fellow readers in the conversation. Jeff Hess: Have Coffee Will Write.
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Mar 7, 2011, 2:46 pm
Really I am. Let’s begin my extended return to this blog with a crime story. I don’t usually report on such things, but should you click the link you’ll see that this one is definitely noteworthy.
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Mar 4, 2011, 5:30 pm
From 1730 today until 1830 on Sunday, 10 April, I will be off-line. Real life is making other demands. There will be no new posts during this time, nor will I be checking Facebook. Go for a walk. Have coffee with a friend. Read a book.. Appreciate all that is your family.
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Mar 2, 2011, 12:00 pm
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 comments section and engage your fellow readers in the conversation. Jeff Hess: Have Coffee Will Write.
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Mar 2, 2011, 10:18 am
I found the exchange between a blogger at Rhode Island Avenue NE Insider and Ward 5 (Washington D.C.) Councilman Harry Thomas (or his staff, as the blogger suggests) interesting because the blogger is not anti-Walmart. What he wants to know is why New York Avenue (11 blocks to the south of Rhode Is...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Feb 28, 2011, 3:50 pm
Rising food prices for basic staples such as rice and wheat have politicians in India scared because hungry people are angry people and in what may be the least creative solution I’ve ever heard of, the government may let Walmart in to save them all. From The Washington Post: Facing anger over s...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Feb 27, 2011, 9:44 am
I’m guessing here, from a hazy memory, but I would estimate that Weber’s Market in Marietta, Ohio, was less than 5,000 square feet and that the Marc’s on Coventry near where I live is a bit less than four times that size. Both are small, neighborhood stores. Walmart intends to open a 26,491 s...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Feb 27, 2011, 6:00 am
Our co-blogger Robert Feinman passed in July 2009. 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 and, for some time, I’ve enjoyed a Sunday morning tradition of reading the essays he posted to his...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Feb 26, 2011, 7:15 pm
Would you pay, on average, 19 percent more to shop at Walmart? We’ve long written here about how Walmart is not the low-cost deal it pretends to be and in the Great Recession, Walmart’s primary demographic is catching on that it can live better elsewhere. I don’t see Walmart reinventing itsel...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Feb 13, 2011, 6:00 am
Our co-blogger Robert Feinman passed in July 2009. 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 and, for some time, I’ve enjoyed a Sunday morning tradition of reading the essays he posted to his...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Feb 11, 2011, 3:49 pm
In the matter of Joseph Casias v. Walmart, Federal Judge Robert Jonker has ruled in the favor of Walmart and dismissed the case in no small part over the matter of commas and the Chicago Manual of Style. The law is just unbelievably wacky. From Judge Jonker’s decision: That the drafters of the c...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Feb 10, 2011, 8:11 am
A consistent core principle in Walmart’s anti-union urban strategy has been to offer crumbs to the construction unions to get the stores built and then thumb its nose at attempts to unionize retail workers. It worked in Cleveland. It’s hitting some bumps in Chicago. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. execut...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Feb 9, 2011, 10:46 pm
If you read the same food blogs that I tend to follow lately, you’d know that they haven’t stopped talking about Wal-Mart’s healthy food initiative since the moment the firm announced it. Alas poor Walmart, most of the stories that I’ve seen are hostile (but then again, that might tell you ...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Feb 9, 2011, 10:04 am
Walmart is famous for allowing families to use its acres of empty parking lots to camp over night in their recreational vehicles. Naturally people shop in the Walmart while they’re parked and the company builds lots of good will. Lake City, Florida, was not amused. From RVBusiness: The RV commun...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Feb 8, 2011, 6:17 pm
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Feb 8, 2011, 1:22 pm
New Yorker writer John Seabrook wrote in Crush Point last week about the dangers of large crowds in general and the case of Walmart employee Jdimytai Damour who died in a Black Friday stampede two years ago. The New Yorker article is firewalled. Fortunately, his interview on Talk Of The N...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Feb 8, 2011, 9:21 am
Back in early November we told you that Walmart was interested in the Indonesian hypermarket retailer Matahari, owned by the Lippo Group, an Indonesian conglomerate which controls Matahari via PT Multipolar. Those talks failed, but Walmart is still interested. From Reuters: Wal...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Feb 7, 2011, 11:54 am
The fans of Walmart's aggressive expansion strategy designed to wear down political and citizen resistance to keep Walmart out of lucrative urban markets are lining up to quack in all the appropriate places in hopes of getting some crumbs down the road. The latest to waddle in is John Tam...
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Feb 6, 2011, 4:14 pm
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Feb 2, 2011, 8:51 am
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Feb 1, 2011, 9:07 am
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Jan 31, 2011, 6:33 pm
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Jeff H. posted an article on The Writing on the Wal - Jan 31, 2011, 9:42 am
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