Little Rock It was only a bit more than 6 years ago when grocery unions feared that Tesco, the giant United Kingdom grocery conglomerate, might have found the secret sauce in both beating unions and Walmart although with labor’s West Coast containment strategies as they entered Los Angeles with what seemed a nearly unbeatable …
Month: April 2013
Study Finds Hospitals Are Paid More for Worse Care
Little Rock Atul Gawande is best known to many of us as a doctor who writes important articles about healthcare in the New Yorker magazine. To his patients he is known as a good surgeon in Boston, and to other surgeons, he is also known as someone who advocates and develops simple checklists for other …
TXU Case Study in Speculation Hurting Consumers and Embarrassing Environmentalists
Memphis Who wants to read another story about Wall Street hustlers and the funny money going south and then jumping through more hoops to try to save their butts in bankruptcy court? Well in this case the answer is “Me!” when it comes to the wheeling-and-dealing involving TXU, the struggling Texas power company. The …