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It was reported that Walmart uses 4,300 unpaid teenagers that it lets “volunteer” to bag groceries at its Mexican stores.
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Wal-Mart is selling Jesus action figures.

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It was discovered that Wal-Mart secretly took out 350,000 life insurance policies on its employees; it is estimated it has collected on 75-100 deaths in the state of Texas alone.
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Wal-Mart is encouraging all their employees to vote, and also informing them of Democratic candidates who oppose Wal-Mart.
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A Pennsylvania jury said on Friday that Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, must pay $78.47 million in damages to current and former Pennsylvania employees for forcing them to work “off the clock” or during rest breaks.
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Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private employer, is pushing to create a cheaper, more flexible work force by capping wages, using more part-time workers and scheduling more workers on nights and weekends.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. posted its first profit decline in a decade.
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Wal-Mart opened it’s first upscale branch on March 23rd in Plano Texas. The new Wal-Mart carries upscale merchandise, such as 550-thread-count Egyptian cotton sheets, 42-inch plasma high-definition televisions and cashmere cardigan sweaters. In addition to extended product ranges, including a wine section with 1,200 different selections, some priced at up to $400 per bottle, the new Dallas Parkway supercenter will house a fresh sushi bar and a spacious WiFi-enabled coffee shop.

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Wal-Mart Stores has begun circulating two senior-level job postings — both in public relations — and if the language used to describe the positions is any indication, the giant discount retailer is on the P.R. equivalent of war footing.

One job includes “opposition research,” presumably into Wal-Mart’s major critics: Wal-Mart Watch and Wake Up Wal-Mart. The other requires the ability to “mobilize resources” during a “crisis situation.”

The two jobs reflect how much life has changed at Wal-Mart, which has come under withering criticism over its wages, health benefits and treatment of workers. The company barely had a public relations department in the early 1990’s, but now has a staff of dozens, including a public relations war room full of former political operatives who dispute the assertions of its opponents.
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Under its definition for the word “skeevy,” the website Dictionary.com lists the following sample sentence: Wal-Mart is a skeevy operation. Skeevy is defined as “disgusting or distasteful; nasty, sleazy.”

In California, a jury awarded $172 million dollars to over 110,000 current and former Wal-Mart employees who were illegally denied lunch breaks.
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Walmart gave 20million in relief to the hurricane katrina disaster region. Many in New Orleans said Wal-Mart got aid to the region faster than any local, state or federal government organization. Wal-Mart’s actions have burnished the company’s image as a good corporate citizen at a time when many liberal groups are striving to paint it as the worst that big business has to offer. Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott said during a Boston conference Wednesday that the company reacted as it did because it was the right thing to do. Public relations were not a factor.”This is Wal-Mart country,” Wal-Mart spokesman Marty Heires said. Critics offered grudging praise. ” Wal-Mart can do the right thing when it wants to.” Chris Kofinis, communications adviser to WakeUpWalMart admitted.
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Investigators with the Connecticut State Attorney’s General’s office uncovered a series of labor law violations at three Wal-Mart stores in the state.
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Some teenagers found a dead body behind Wal-Mart.

At the Wal-Mart annual meeting executives admitted they were human, Jessica Simpson sang the national anthem in a midriff-baring shirt, and Jon Bon Jovi and Garth Brooks performed wearing Wal-Mart vests.

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Wal-Mart is hosting a reality tv show about scholarships.
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Wal-Mart apologized for running an advertisement that equated current Arizona zoning ordinances with the Nazi regime. Using a photo of a 1933 book burning in Berlin, the ad read: “Should we let government tell us what we can read? Of course not . . . So why should we allow local government to limit where we shop?” The ad, which ran May 8 in the Arizona Daily Sun, was “reviewed and approved by Wal-Mart, but we did not know what the photo was from.” said Daphne Moore, Wal-Mart’s director of community affairs.

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Wal-Mart critics are pressuring the retail giant to pay their employees more.
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Barely a week after environmentalists forged a broad alliance with organized labor and community groups to attack Wal-Mart and its business practices, the company announced Tuesday that it would donate $35 million over the next decade to an ambitious new conservation effort by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.

“Last year, we recycled over 2.8 million tons of cardboard, 9,416 tons of plastic and 49 million disposable cameras,” Sarah Clark, a spokeswoman for Wal-Mart said.
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Wal-Mart is staging a massive public relations campaign to improve the company’s image. Company CEO Lee Scott said “Wal-Mart is great for America.”
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