Colonia, Uruguay From the point I landed the ACORN Argentina organizers have been briefing me on the exciting developments with the big multi-national retail supermarket chains, Wal-Mart and Carrefour. Seems at mid-week their union surprisingly led a large march of the workers from the stores into the city of Buenos Aires to protest the fact …
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Cheaper Electricity
Detroit All of the news this morning is the Detroit Auto Show here, where this city is still trying to fly the flag on a ship that increasingly seems to have set sail, while those of us still driving American made cars seem to have ‘old school’ tattooed across our foreheads. Nothing seems more ‘old …
Wal-Mart and Bharti on the India Sneak
San Francisco Wal-Mart sales are slipping. It’s stock in on a skid. Expansion plans have been rolled back in the US. This year the company closed shop in Germany and Korea. There’s no smiley face on this season for Wal-Mart. I should have known when they saw Reliance grabbing their business model and threatening to run …