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Inconsistent? Absolutely, and deliberately so. "We're a family store," says Wal-Mart CEO David Glass, and "we try to have something for everyone." And just as in real families, there is conflict about who gets what. Last week the company was pinned by a consumer who demanded that a...
It was the latest in a series of controversies in which the company, by virtue of its enormous size and reach, has played an unwanted role as a sort of national conscience, discount division. Wal-Mart has been accused of being both censor and nanny, condemned as a promoter of...
And wherever there's gray, black, as in ink, is not far behind. Earlier this year, Wal-Mart infuriated some women's groups when it declined to stock Preven, an emergency day-after contraception kit available by prescription. Antiabortion groups hailed the decision as one for their side. But Wal...
Why the distinction? Wal-Mart executives attribute the decision to the customers, who say they expect to be able to buy beer and wine in supercenters just as they do at competitors' stores of a similar type. Yet booze will remain verboten in fuddy-duddy old Wal-Mart discount stores...
In Wal-Mart's world, there is accounting for taste. For instance, the video section stocks the risque comedy There's Something About Mary. And there's something in it that more than a few folks would find objectionable. Says movie buyer Eddie Tutt: "It's pretty crude, but [the...