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...Tuesday is sales day, with July retail sales hitting at 8:30 a.m., Wal-Mart and Home Depot reporting quarterly results, and Don Rumsfeld hawking U.S. missile defense to Putin?s Kremlin...
...sales are expected to fall a tolerable 0.2 percent in July, led by declining auto sales, and while that?s not good, it?s still a July number, which will make it possible for Wall Street to continue to wait for those rebate checks to lift all our boats. Wal-Mart and Home Depot should both deliver good news, but we knew they would, and most Wall Street forecasters expect Rummy to make decent progress with the Russians by explaining the urgent post-Cold-War need for the world?s lone superpower to deploy a massive network of space-based...
...some ways, the name brands--not only the Microsofts and Nokias but also the Kodaks and Gaps--are making a devil's bargain. If some entrepreneur has a revolutionary idea for a videophone or an instant tooth flosser, all he has to do is get Wal-Mart to agree to sell it and then get Sanmina to design and build...
...fact, my job also co-opts several of these possibilities. I often feel like a bedding salesman-cum-Wal-Mart greeter, as my employer believes strongly in greeting every customer who crosses an employee’s path. This is a wonderful policy, and most customers appreciate the gesture, though it’s a surprisingly difficult one to follow properly. First, there is the eternal question of what constitutes acceptable greeting range. I believe the official policy is a 10-foot radius, but its working definition is dependent upon a number of transient conditions—time...
...move us. That may be changing, slowly, as more and more women come forward to challenge what has become the biggest open secret in the American workplace. Big chain stores Publix and the Home Depot have shelled out a combined $180 million to settle female employee wage discrimination claims; Wal-Mart is currently facing a discrimination suit...