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After Hurricane Katrina, John Sorensen and his wife Barbara Vogt Sorensen, both experts in disaster preparedness, went to Wal-Mart to conduct an experiment. They divided up the emergency-supplies list that FEMA had published, then started shopping. It took them 2 1/2 hours. It cost $343 for a family of two. Theoretically, a good number of the items would need to be replenished every six to 12 months. "A family that lives from check to check can't afford to do that. It was a real eye-opener," says John, who, with his wife, works at Oak Ridge National...
...ubiquitous brand names that have swallowed the American landscape. (It will hardly be surprising if Coupland’s next venture is a “Grapes of Wrath”-like epic in which the smartass owners of a family business come to grips with a new Wal-Mart in town.) As we learn the details of Roger’s pathetic downfall from “OK Dad” to “friendless alcoholic divorcee,” we also meet Bethany, a fellow employee whose obsession with death has expressed itself in her Dracula-esque...
...Young proclaims that he was “raised in a strip mall by arcade attendants,” according to his Web site. He travels all over the country, performing at colleges and clubs, and has a penchant for visiting every Wal-Mart he encounters to test all of the deodorants. He’s performed at The Montreal Comedy Festival, Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival, and the New York Comedy Festival. Though he has had his fair share of on-air time with appearances on Comedy Central’s “Premium Blend...
...allowing Chinese businesses to produce products... whose prices are lower than the prices of their American-made counterparts,” is in fact beneficial for the United States. Cheap imports are an incredible boon for Americans, a fact that is evident to anyone who has been to Wal-Mart. In her critique of certain protectionist policies, Lescroart falls into the general protectionist fallacy of seeing the availability of cheap products for Americans as a bad thing simply because those products come from outside our borders. DANIEL P. ROBINSON ’10 Cambridge, MA October...
...distance. They're getting so cheap that manufacturers basically need a reason not to put them in things. Most people know RFID, if they're aware of it at all, as the technology behind cash-free highway tolls, but it goes way beyond that. Retail giants like Wal-Mart use RFID tags for inventory management, to help keep track of exactly what is precisely where in their vast tentacular supply chains--Wal-Mart announced earlier this month that it had RFID-enabled forklifts in 975 of its North American stores. RFID tags are embedded in tires. They're in library...