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...Wal-Mart doesn't just want you to buy gas and groceries at its superstores these days. Now it wants your entire paycheck...
...will be the biggest wedding day ever," says Carley Roney, editor in chief of The Knot. "Even more than the millennium." It certainly helps that the luckiest day of the century happens to fall on a Saturday, right after the Fourth of July. In fact, when Wal-Mart saw how popular the day was, it decided to host a contest where seven couples will win an all-expenses-paid wedding held in their closest Wal-Mart Super Center lawn and garden area...
...work at the factory than before. The plant has in fact grown, thanks in large part to hardworking migrants, not just from Mexico but from more than 20 other countries. The business seems robust for the time being. The workforce is unionized again. Salaries are creeping up. A new Wal-Mart Supercenter is on the way. Cargill's strength has turned Beardstown into, if not a boomtown, at least a place that investors are paying attention to. And the town is leading its pitch with the fact that it has a large Hispanic workforce, a bellwether for economic growth. "That...
...major struggle. While the national coalition government in New Delhi says it is committed to reform as a way of helping farmers boost their incomes, its left-wing members are horrified by the prospect of a flood of organized retail outlets putting mom-and-pop stores out of business. Wal-Mart, which has tied up with Bharti to set up a chain of retail stores to take on Reliance, has drawn protests, including a demonstration last February in which a generic Wal-Mart executive was burned in effigy, even before the opening of the first store. (Wal-Mart said...
...retailers argue that farmers, consumers and governments will benefit from the competition. "By structuring and organizing the trade, by getting more Reliances and Wal-Marts or Bhartis or otherwise, the government revenue is only going to go up because the corporates will pay taxes, they will not hide taxes," says Reliance's Asthana, who points to studies estimating that mandis regularly underreport their trade by up to 50% to avoid government levies...