Wal-Mart can’t seem to grasp an essential fact: in 2006, the company has exactly the reputation it has earned. No, we don’t give the company adequate credit for low prices. But the broken covenant Sam...

Every time you see the Wal-Mart smiley face, whistling and knocking down the prices, somewhere there’s a factory worker being kicked in the stomach. – Sherrie Ford

The small stuff matters. The company that became the largest and most powerful in history isn’t a military contractor or a car company. It isn’t the result of savvy lobbyists in Washington, or the happenstance...

Wal-mart has done such a superb job of austerity, from start to finish, that austerity is all that’s left.

We want clean air, clean water, good living conditions, the best health care in the world. Yet we aren’t willing to pay for anything manufactured under those restrictions.

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Wal-Mart benefits from the impression that globalization is some kind of unmanageable economic weather system out of the control of everyone, affecting all players with indifference, benefiting those who happened to be properly prepared.

Sometimes cheap is inexpensive. Sometimes it’s cheap.

Wal-Mart is so large, its reach so great, that it has created an ecosystem in which its suppliers and competitors, and their suppliers and competitors, and their customers, all operate. Wal-Mart sets the metabolism, it...

For all the folks whose job it was to be ready for [Hurricane] Katrina, but who weren’t, from the Oval Office, right down the chain of command to the New Orleans police department, Wal-Mart was...

…I couldn’t let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million...

Who better than Wal-Mart, after all, to make a kilowatt of electricity go twice as far, or a gallon of fuel move our trucks move three times the distance?” -Wal-Mart ad

Wal-mart started selling “Vampire Home Defense Kits”, including holy water, crosses, stakes, mallets, and a book of quick blessings to bar vampires from your door. The fact that these kits were generally useless didn’t bother...

Wal-Mart’s business in the United States is stagnating, growing only because the company continues to relentlessly open new stores. But if Wal-Mart takes environmental responsibility seriously, if its stores become models for energy conservation and...