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...also to a $100 billion chunk of the retail economy. Everyone from fashion designers to cosmetics companies to small-town malls is praying that Lundgren's strategy works. Department stores have struggled for years: they've cut service, cut prices, cut inventory and still lost customers to cheaper (Wal-Mart) or more stylish (Kohl's, Target) discounters and to specialty stores (Nordstrom) with top-end service. Millions of Americans, especially in the nation's midsection, will soon have their first chance to shop at Macy's. The company now has to give them a reason...
...this decision is too difficult for you to make, consider working for Wal-Mart. The world’s quintessential conglomerate has already relieved you of the burden by refusing to stock EC at all. Their decision not to carry Preven was ostensibly a financial one––EC isn’t profitable enough, Wal-Mart supposes––but invites suspicions of a not-so-hidden agenda: to keep EC out of the hands of women, despite their doctors’ wishes...
...Mart’s decision––along with the policies of Rite Aid and Walgreens––is frightening, not least because of its practical implications. Wal-Mart runs 2,428 pharmacies across the country, and theirs is the only pharmacy within a reasonable distance of many rural communities. If Wal-Mart will not fill a prescription for EC, it may be impossible for a woman to fill her prescription quickly enough...
...stepped forward to organize a response to Harvard Right to Life’s recent poster campaign or the graphic anti-abortion pamphlets that bombarded many student mailboxes earlier this fall. And no student groups promoted or even drew attention to a recent Planned Parenthood rally at the Wal-Mart in Quincy, Mass., which protested the company’s imprudent “business” decision...
After all, if pro-choice activists don’t build a bigger tent, millions of Americans might find their own moral tent at Wal-Mart instead...