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["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

Wal-Mart has also been sued by company after company for selling Fake
goods.  Nike and Adidas most recently.

The real question is what does someone do to help stop a corporate beast
like this.  I mean, me not shopping there is hardly a dent...

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> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of childers.paula AT epamail.epa.gov
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 2:58 PM
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> Subject: [internetworkers] Re: Wal-Mart
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> re: Wal-Mart, everything about them is scary.
> 
> -- They are requiring their top 100 suppliers to use RFID tags for
> inventory control in what? six months? one year? meaning just about
> everything you buy will have RFID tags soon, as you know a big
company's
> assembly line isn't going to *just* put them on the stuff going to
> Wal-Mart.  http://news.com.com/2100-1022_3-1013767.html
> 
> -- They pay so little that a full-time worker at one of their stores
> could not support their family above the poverty line *even if* that
> person bought *everything* from the Wal-Mart where they work.  "At
$7.50
> per hour, a Wal-Mart worker makes $11,700 a year--nearly $2,000 below
> the poverty line for a single mother with two children. In fact, the
> majority of Wal-Mart employees working year-round, both full and
> part-time, qualify for federally-funded food stamps. (Source:
> www.walmartwatch.org) " http://www.lraonline.org/print.php?id=57
> 
> -- They dropped the "american-made" thing because so little of what
they
> sell is made here. They are probably one of the biggest reasons for
> manufacturing jobs leaving the US, because they don't give a rat's a**
> where they buy it from so long as its dirt cheap and highly
profitable.
> http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16685
> 
> -- Who cares if the bigger result of Wal-Mart coming to town is
putting
> all the locals onto unemployment? Even the poor still have to shop at
> Wal-Mart 'cos they also drove all the mom&pop stores under and there's
> nowhere else to go.
http://www.mainstreetinsights.com/whobenwmart.htm
> 
> -- They are being sued for across-the board discrimination against
> women, among hundreds of other unfair-labor-practices lawsuits also
out
> against them.
> 
> check out these:
> http://www.walmartwatch.com/
> 
> (scroll down to read)
> http://www.calcsea.org/csd/unionworks/Cut2Chase.asp
> "By manipulating employees' work schedules so that the majority are
> part-timers, Wal-Mart provides only 40 percent of employees with
> benefits. Wal- Mart essentially shifts its healthcare costs to
> taxpayers, driving more than half of its employees to Medicaid."
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