Delhi A startling piece ran recently in the Wall Street Journal that essentially heralded the end to the “Wal-Mart era” in retail. The front-page piece went right at the core of the Wal-Mart problem: the business model. The evidence was precise. Same store sales were falling, revealing a teetering pyramid game where Wal-Mart …
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Better Wal-Mart Health
New Orleans Watch the sky! Pigs are flying! Wal-Mart announced actual improvements in its health care offering for its associates. The improvements included a grant of $100-500 to lower health costs while reducing premiums in some cases as low as $5 per month. The company claimed they would also get rid of hospital deductibles …
Ports and CEQA
San Jose The second day of Site Fighters III continued to pile on the good stuff, sometimes in unexpected ways. We started off the morning with a presentation from Doug Bloch on the Change to Win staff on their ports campaign to improve the condition of port truck drivers in major ports in the USA, …