Thursday, January 19, 2006
The Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart
Think your decisions are irrelevant in the face of a monster behemoth of a company with supply chains a mile deep and marked down? Then perhaps you should the tale about The Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart and realize that companies do not HAVE to do business with Wal-Mart to thrive and survive. In fact, some companies would shrivel and die if they did do business with the monster price-cutter.
So I've got a new slogan for dealing with Wal-Mart, yes, its borrowed from Nancy Reagan but I don't think she'll mind. Just Say No to Wal-Mart!
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, Snapper, Just Say No, Simplicity
Friday, January 13, 2006
Forcing Good Corporate Citizenship
So I've got a new slogan for dealing with Wal-Mart, yes, its borrowed from Nancy Reagan but I don't think she'll mind. Just Say No to Wal-Mart!
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, Snapper, Just Say No, Simplicity
Friday, January 13, 2006
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Digg It!Forcing Good Corporate Citizenship
Since it is readily apparent that big companies will not a damned thing that doesn't increase their bottom line unless they are forced to, Maryland Forces Wal-Mart To Help Pay Its Healthcare. The bill calls for companies that employ more than 10,000 people in Maryland to pay 8% of their income to help pay for those employee's health caree, or else pay the difference into a state Medicaid fund.
Which is fair, unless you're Wal-Mart and then you feel like you're being picked on since they are the only employer in Maryland to employ enough people to qualify for the auto-8% that isn't already contributing 8% or more. Johns Hopkins, Giant Food and Northrup Grumman employ enough people but are already being good corporate citizens and don't need to have their arms bent backwards to help cover the cost of their employee's healthcare like Wal-Mart does.
Its very telling how Wal-Mart has reacted. Instead of realizing that this is a good thing for all involved, including Wal-Mart as they won't be quite so heavily parasitic, nope, instead of settling and trying to be better corporate citizens, they are appealling and hiring lobbying firms to fight for them. Nice work, Wal-Mart, you're proving time and again what a truly contemptible bunch of bean counting greedfaced assholes you really are.
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, healthcare, Maryland, legislating good corporate citizenship
Monday, January 09, 2006
Immovable Corporation Meets Unstoppable Bloggers
Which is fair, unless you're Wal-Mart and then you feel like you're being picked on since they are the only employer in Maryland to employ enough people to qualify for the auto-8% that isn't already contributing 8% or more. Johns Hopkins, Giant Food and Northrup Grumman employ enough people but are already being good corporate citizens and don't need to have their arms bent backwards to help cover the cost of their employee's healthcare like Wal-Mart does.
Its very telling how Wal-Mart has reacted. Instead of realizing that this is a good thing for all involved, including Wal-Mart as they won't be quite so heavily parasitic, nope, instead of settling and trying to be better corporate citizens, they are appealling and hiring lobbying firms to fight for them. Nice work, Wal-Mart, you're proving time and again what a truly contemptible bunch of bean counting greedfaced assholes you really are.
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, healthcare, Maryland, legislating good corporate citizenship
Monday, January 09, 2006
Immovable Corporation Meets Unstoppable Bloggers
WaPo: Wal-Mart Sees How Fast Bad Press Spreads Online. In other words, its working, folks. Let's keep up the pressure and force the behemoth to change its spots despite itself or face being forced off the top of the mountain!
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, internet, Washington Post, bloggers
Friday, January 06, 2006
Racial Profiling and Wal-Mart Stepping In It, Again
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, internet, Washington Post, bloggers
Friday, January 06, 2006
Racial Profiling and Wal-Mart Stepping In It, Again
Racial profiling feared at Wal-Mart after they detained a black man who was purchasing gift cards for his company's employees. Not just 5 or 10 cards, he was buying $13,600 worth of cards for the company with a signed and notarized check. Well, someone at the Wal-Mart decided that he was forging company checks to do so and stalled and detained him for two hours before the police showed up and started to treat the man like he was a criminal before slowing down and examining the details. The police took 19 minutes to figure out that he was legitimately purchasing the cards. They didn't even have enough to file a report on the matter.
Nice work, Wal-Mart. What page of the employee manual is racial profiling on?
I'm especially pleased that the company no longer buys gift cards from Wal-Mart, now they get them from Target. So yeah, suck it, Wal-Mart.
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, racism, profiling, false detainment, Target
Wal-Mart and the Planet of the Apes Debacle
Nice work, Wal-Mart. What page of the employee manual is racial profiling on?
I'm especially pleased that the company no longer buys gift cards from Wal-Mart, now they get them from Target. So yeah, suck it, Wal-Mart.
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, racism, profiling, false detainment, Target
Wal-Mart and the Planet of the Apes Debacle
Okay, so the big news about Wal-Mart is that they were recommending Marting Luther King Jr. movies to people looking at The Planet of the Apes. The overt racism is pretty ridiculously ugly.
But, I don't think this was a willful act on Wal-Mart's part. I think it was a glitch in their system and is incredibly stupid but this is a mistake and not the work of a racist programmer within the company.
Sometimes things DO happen by accident.
But, if you want to use this as another reason not to shop at Wal-Mart then, by all means, please go right ahead. But this wasn't intentional, just stupid.
[Update: SanDiegoJohnny reported on this three months ago but was not given a proper attribution by the big-time bloggers who "scooped" in on this retardness from Wal-Mart. And, given that its been known for three months, I'm going to have to adjust my stance on this and say that Wal-Mart has some 'splaining to do. And it appears that they really are racist asshats.]
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, movie, Planet of the Apes, Marting Luther King Jr., MLK
But, I don't think this was a willful act on Wal-Mart's part. I think it was a glitch in their system and is incredibly stupid but this is a mistake and not the work of a racist programmer within the company.
Sometimes things DO happen by accident.
But, if you want to use this as another reason not to shop at Wal-Mart then, by all means, please go right ahead. But this wasn't intentional, just stupid.
[Update: SanDiegoJohnny reported on this three months ago but was not given a proper attribution by the big-time bloggers who "scooped" in on this retardness from Wal-Mart. And, given that its been known for three months, I'm going to have to adjust my stance on this and say that Wal-Mart has some 'splaining to do. And it appears that they really are racist asshats.]
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, movie, Planet of the Apes, Marting Luther King Jr., MLK