New Orleans There are two more living wage issues worth noting this Election Day. One is the ACORN-led effort in the home country of Pine Bluff, Arkansas to set a higher floor – over $9.00 per hour – for municipal employees in that city. Every kind of effort has been made to fairly pay city …
Category: WalMart
Wal-Mart’s Bad Month
New Orleans October has not been the best month for our friends at Wal-Mart’s. It turns out to be hard to run the world after all. It also seems that maybe Mr. Sam’s advice to keep out of politics and hunker down in Bentonville may not have been hopelessly old school, but may have been …
A New Business Model for Wal-Mart?
New Orleans Wall Street analysts need to put our WARN (www.warnwalmart.org) on speed dial. Reading the Wall Street Journal over the last week, as they speculated on whether or not big investors could convince the company to concentrate on “same store” sales and other stock enhancements, we could have told them in advance that Wal-Mart …