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...were running Wal-Mart, there would be strippers in the aisles and strippers at the checkout line. In fact, it would just be a strip joint. But despite the fact that I have neither morals nor taste, I think Wal-Mart was right to pull the lad mags - Maxim, Stuff and FHM - from its shelves last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Lad Mags, the Jig Is Up | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

...Mart, which I love not only for the cleanliness, prices and service but also for employing people who would otherwise be knocking on my door with religious literature, sells to a lot of the red states. And red states, as their color portends, get angered really easily. To make its customers happy, Wal-Mart has often done some stupid things, like pulling Midge, a pregnant, married doll; making Nirvana change the song Rape Me to Waif Me; and forcing the Goo Goo Dolls to redesign the cover of A Boy Named Goo because a Wal-Mart executive thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Lad Mags, the Jig Is Up | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

...store defines itself by its merchandise, and Wal-Mart is no more obligated to carry men's magazines than a women's shoe store is to sell beer and doughnuts. I hope by printing that here, I have copyrighted that idea. And while Wal-Mart sells guns, hunting knives, cigarettes, Wiggles DVDs and other things I wouldn't feel comfortable putting on the shelves in my shoe-beer-and-doughnuts store, its job isn't to be morality police. Wal-Mart's business is not to offend its customers, most of whom are, for reasons that may have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Lad Mags, the Jig Is Up | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

RETAIL As consumers regain confidence and enjoy more cash in their pockets through lower energy costs, they'll shop. Best bets in a still tepid economy are firms known for delivering value: Costco, Kohl's, Target, Wal-Mart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Time for Defense | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...stay on speaking terms with Pakistan's General Pervez Musharraf) and tremendously detailed (you've got to make sure a quarter of a million troops have enough of everything, from tracer bullets to disposable razors). From a sprawling concrete headquarters in Tampa, Fla., that looks like a huge Wal-Mart without the big blue signs, Franks and a staff of 3,200 are running both the war in Afghanistan and the looming conflict in Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The General: Straight Shooter | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

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