Word: marts
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...critical of many large companies, including Wal-Mart, but are there also models of good corporate citizenry...
...think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices. I have fond feelings for American Apparel, the non-sweatshop casual clothing store. Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's has become a national campaigner for doing something about this inequality of wealth and income and for more corporate accountability. So yes, there are plenty of good examples...
...launched in 1999, it has its origins in a solar start-up that had been around since the mid-1980s. First Solar spent years tinkering before moving to mass production. It was able to weather those early days of profitless experimentation because it had a rich, patient backer: Wal-Mart heir John Walton, who pumped $250 million into First Solar before his death...
AC/DC album to be sold exclusively at Wal-Mart. For those about to rock, Aisle 5 salutes...
...customer who has grown up with the irreverent, friendly service of Southwest Airlines, the open office, the work-among-the-crowd Starbucks culture, and is accustomed to innovative design, via Target and Ikea, at a good price. The next generation of business travelers may have meetings with Wal-Mart in Bentonville, Ark., but they don't want to be separated from their hip, urban social lifestyle...