Walmart Watch: Occupy Reunion, Bangladesh Fire, and Spreading Retail Chaos

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New Orleans   The protests of Black Friday may be over but that’s about all that’s over on either Black Friday or the woeful Walmart watch. Occupy’s Role in Protests One interesting side note of the protests is the critical, though largely unrecognized, role of the remnants of last year’s Occupy Wall Street movement and its …

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Walmart: Black Friday, Open-Source Protests, Hot Shops, and Real Trouble in India

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New Orleans   “…every battle is won before it is fought.  And it is won by choosing the field of terrain on which the fight will be engaged.” Sun Tzu Now that the UFCW national action day at Walmart has gone past its Black Friday expiration day, we can say pretty definitively, and largely without …

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Convicting Corporate Criminals: British Petroleum and Walmart

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New Orleans    US-Attorney General Eric Holder was in New Orleans yesterday to announce a $4.5 billion settlement with British Petroleum on criminal charges.  It isn’t easy in this country to convict corporations of criminality, all evidence to the contrary, so having them plead out to their obvious culpability in the environmental and human tragedy caused …

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