2005 Articles on Wal-Mart

Dec 2005 Former Executive Blows the Whistle on Factory Inspection Fraud (The American Prospect)
Dec 2005 Jury Orders Wal-Mart to Pay Workers for Lunch Breaks Denied (L.A. Times)
Dec 2005 Debunking Wal-Mart's Spin (WalMart Watch)
Dec 2005 Big Box Balderdash (N.Y. Times)
Dec 2005 Retail Chains Seek WTO's Help to Stifle Local Democracy (New Rules Project)
Dec 2005 Wal-Mart, in Effort to Placate Criticism, Buys Ads in Small-town Newspapers (Associated Press)
Dec 2005 Is Wal-Mart Getting More Than Ads for Its Money? (Extra!)
Dec 2005 Solutions to the Wal-Mart Problem (TomPaine.com)
Nov 2005 Discussion Guide for "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" (ReclaimDemocracy.org)
Nov 2005 Wal-Mart and the Politics of American Retail (Competitive Enterprise Institute)
Nov 2005 Stop Picking on Wal-Mart and Spread the Scrutiny (ReclaimDemocracy.org)
Nov 2005 Wal-Mart: The Good Goliath (N.Y. Times)
Nov 2005 Wal-Mart Charity Evaluated (The Nation)
Nov 2005 Labor Dept. Rebuked for Deal with Wal-Mart (N.Y. Times)
Oct 2005 A Wal-Mart Job Application (parody) (N.Y. Daily News)
Oct 2005 Papers Submitted to Wal-Mart's Own Conference Undercut Company Claims (Business Week)
Oct 2005 Internal Memo Reveals Company Strategy on Health Care Cost Containment (N.Y. Times)
Oct 2005 Up to 600 New Stores Planned for 2006 (Wall St. Journal)
Oct 2005 Wal-Mart Under Attack (Business Week)
Oct 2005 Wal-Mart's Impact on Local Police Costs (pdf) (New Rules Project)
Sep 2005 Wal-Mart Boosters Oust Alderman Who Opposed New Store (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
Sep 2005 Interview with CEO Lee Scott on Wal-Mart's PR Counter-offensive (Business Week)
Sep 2005 Even Some Critics Applaud Wal-Mart Inc. for Katrina Response (Associated Press)
Aug 2005 Wal-Mart CEO Calls for Government Intervention to Prevent Market Dominance! (The London Times}
Aug 2005 Wal-Mart to Launch Major Expansion of Liquor Sales (Wall St. Journal)
Aug 2005 Wal-Mart Wants to Take Settlement Money from Incapacitated Woman (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Aug 2005 Manslaughter at Wal-Mart? (Houston Chronicle)
Aug 2005 Who Will Call the Shots, Wal-Mart or Citizens? (Writers on the Range)
Aug 2005 NY Times Op-ed Praising Wal-Mart Fails to Note Writer is Wal-Mart Consultant (NY Times)
July 2005 Wal-Mart Bans Newspaper from Store for Daring to Publish Critical Columnist (Pensacola News Journal)
July 2005 The Costco vs Wal-Mart Models of Employee Treatment (NY Times)
July 2005 Fired Factory Inspector Alleges He Was Dismissed for Refusing to Cover Up Truth (NY Times)
June 2005 Workers Told to Schedule Lives Around Corporation's Needs (USA Today)
June 2005 Wal-Mart's Latest PR Ploy: "Reality" TV (NY Times)
May 2005 Is Wal-Mart Good for Minority Communities? (Colorlines Magazine)
May 2005 Is Target Any Better (than Wal-Mart) for Workers? (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
May 2005 Wal-Mart Group Compares Zoning Advocates to Nazis (Arizona Daily Sun)
May 2005 Can Christians Shop at Wal-Mart in Good Conscience? (Christianity Today)
May 2005 Evaluating Wal-Mart's Health Insurance Program (Christianity Today)
Apr 2005 "Acres for America," Wal-Mart's Cynical New Greenwashing Campaign (New Rules Project)
Apr 2005 Wal-Mart Thrives on Government Coercion, Not "Free Trade" (TomPaine.com)
Apr 2005 Walton Family Funds GOP, Lobbying to Repeal Estate Taxes (USA Today)
Mar 2005 New Bill Would Take $37 Million from U.S. Taxpayers to Subsidize Wal-Mart HQ Access Road (Associated Press)
Mar 2005 Bush Administration Gives Wal-Mart a Pass on Multiple Violations of Labor Laws (New York Times) with response by Ben Price
Mar 2005 Wal-Mart Lawyers Claim Class-Action Suit Would Violate Corporation's "Civil Rights" (Business Week)
Mar 2005 Don't Blame Wal-Mart (New York Times) + a response by Stacy Mitchell of the New Rules Project
Feb 2005 Wal-Mart Drops Plan to Enter NY City (New York Times)
Feb 2005 Charges of Child Labor Violations Settled with Miniscule Fine (New York Times)
Feb 2005 Will Wal-Mart Take New York? (New York Times)
Feb 2005 Wal-Mart Escalates War on Workers (Canadian Press)
Jan 2005 Wal-Bank? Wal-Mart Moves Into Banking and Finance (Business Week)
Jan 2005 National Newspaper Association Chief Lashes Out at Freeloading Wal-Mart (NNA)
Jan 2005 Ill Wind for Wal-Mart (Kansas City Star)
Jan 2005 One of Every Four Tennessee Wal-Mart Workers Requires Public Assistance (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
Jan 2005 Wal-Mart Launches Massive PR Campaign to Bolster Image (Forbes.com)

 

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