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 …
Category: WalMart
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 …
Wal-Mart Workers Hit the Street
Tampa Meeting the staff of the Wal-Mart Organizing Project in Tampa, we shifted through the reports and press calls from reporters expressing surprise that more than 100 Wal-Mart workers in Hialeah Gardens outside Miami had hit the streets to protest hour’s cutbacks. Rick Smith, the organizing director, handled a call from the Bureau of National …