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...LAST TUESDAY, RETIRED General Colin Powell was dutifully signing books at a Wal-Mart in suburban Fort Worth when he noticed that the line of eager buyers appeared distracted. He was nonplussed, like a sergeant whose troops had fallen out without an order to do so. For a long moment in that cavernous mall in Texas, Powell seemed to be the only person in America who was unaware of what was happening in a courtroom in Los Angeles...
...Misery is appropriate, if you?re in Darfar or Bangladesh, or on the overnight cleaning shift at Wal-Mart with all the doors locked. But if you?re singing in a rock group - if you?re young and rich and famous and the crowd is screaming love at you, and if your overnight shift is taking the favors of some beautiful stranger waiting at the stage door - honestly, what do you have to mope about? The Beatles, in the first flush of their fame (when they wore matching suits), got it right. They played a song, the girls squealed...
...seems that activists will use any means available to undermine corporate America. “I’m Not Stealing” was created by two young activists who attempted to fix the effects of commercial materialism on their own, thus incurring the wrath of the monolithic Wal-mart Corporation. Recode.com featured a barcode generator that allowed clients to re-price commercial goods as they saw fit. After the website’s creators were forced to dismantle their project because of legal action, the response film played on the website. The cartoon’s host, a talking...
...plan calls for eliminating a relatively small number--6,000 of the combined firm's 140,000 employees worldwide. That won't save billions. Another argument from deal enthusiasts: the merger will give the firms greater bargaining clout with big retail chains. "This is a response to the Wal-Martization of America," says Joseph Altobello, an analyst at CIBC World Markets. A similar case is made regarding advertising purchases--that together the brand-swollen behemoth will be able to wring more favorable terms for ads. Yet P&G and Gillette were megafirms separately. How much more leverage can they truly...
...Drug Stores warns that customers would have fewer choices of brands and longer waits in line, while big retailers would have to contend with a patchwork of confusing state laws. That is already true: at least 11 states have enacted some restraints. Meanwhile, some retailers are voluntarily restricting sales. Wal-Mart, for instance, limits customers to three boxes of products containing pseudoephedrine...