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...Thursday afternoon, and the aisles at the new Wal-Mart in Shanghai are about as packed as they can get. The food sections are jammed, as are electronics and household goods. Most of the products that fill Wu Jingqing's shopping cart are made in China. But not all of them. In the DVD and CD sections, Wu looks for a children's movie for her 6-year-old. This is the real thing she's buying?a DVD of Beauty and the Beast priced at $1.85 that is absolutely, positively not one of the pirated versions for which China...
...Chinese housewives buying genuine American DVDs at a Wal-Mart in Shanghai is about as close to trade nirvana as it gets for the U.S. these days. If there were more?lots more?Chinese with Wu's buying habits, the strident anti-China rhetoric coming from Washington could be dismissed as election-year political theater, rather than portents of a potentially damaging rupture in the commercial relations between the two countries. Simply put, China sells far more stuff to the U.S.?more than $200 billion last year?than the U.S. sells to China, a situation economists (and many politicians...
...combatting piracy in Asia. "Our marketing strategy is universal," says Mike Staffaroni, CEO of HSL, which is based in Carrollton, Texas. From Day One, the company has aimed at controlled distribution and growth, maintaining mystique by selling at premium-priced, higher-end retailers and "nix to the likes of Wal-Mart or Target." It positions Heelys as sporting equipment, not toys, despite a target audience of 6-to-14-year-olds...
Bloggers are proud to be the mainstream media's fact-checking gadflies, but last week they were the ones being checked. The New York Times reported that recent posts lambasting legislation against Wal-Mart came verbatim from the retailer's p.r. firm. The right-wing IOWA VOICE pleaded guilty but said he was sent "links to news articles [that] we would have found anyway." Lefty media monitor SNARKAHOLIC retorted that the bloggers were "too stupidly egotistical to know the difference between a press release and [an] exclusive source," while politiblog FIREDOGLAKE decried Wal-Mart's "corporate propaganda...
Clinics like the one Hillesheim visited--that one run by the Minneapolis-based MinuteClinic--are expanding rapidly, popping up in Piggly Wiggly supermarkets and such drugstores as CVS and Rite Aid. Wal-Mart Stores, which has nine in-store dispensaries, has announced plans to bring the total to more than 50 this year. The clinics are open to employees as well as the public, allowing Wal-Mart to address two high-profile issues. The first is criticism that it doesn't provide medical coverage to enough of its 1.2 million U.S. employees. The second goes beyond Wal-Mart: the prospect...