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'Walmart'

Walmart, Ticketmaster team up

Walmart and Ticketmaster form a partnership.
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Walmart gift pays admission to Crystal Bridges

A hefty donation from Walmart will pay admission costs for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
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Morning in America — the tweet update

What did we do before Twitter: * Rupert Murdoch pied in the halls of parliament, after which his wife reportedly bitch slapped the pieman.

Amazon goes to war against sales taxes

Amazon is cranking up an initiative campaign in California to prevent application of sales taxes to any portion of Internet commerce.
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Walmart grocery expansion in Little Rock

More details in our Insider this week on Walmart's plans to put a larger-than-normal Neighborhood Market in the former Harvest Foods store in the Riverdale shopping center.

Pump discounts aimed at retail sales

Well, sure. Walmart is offering 10-cent-a-gallon gas savings (if you pay with a Walmart card) to get people into their parking lots in hopes they'll ring cash registers inside the stores.
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GOP si! Hispanics, no!

Interesting little story in the Northwest edition of the D-G today, but you can't see it unless you subscribe.

Walmart's authoritarian style

An op-ed in the New York Times, considering the end of the class action sex discrimination lawsuit against Walmart, says the complaint was symptomatic of a historically patriarchal, authoritarian and evangelical Protestant leadership that creates harsh pressures for all employees, but particularly low-wage employees who happen to be predominantly female.
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Supreme Court reverses Walmart class action

Big ruling today by the U.S. Supreme Court in the appeal by Walmart of certification of a class action in a sex discrimination lawsuit covering 1.5 million employees.

Walmart workers seek respect in Bentonville

There was a mention of this on the open line comments last night, but here's a link to a full report from OUR Walmart, on the visit to Bentonville Thursday by about 100 members of a fledgling grassroots organization seeking better working conditions from the giant retailer (but not, at least at this point, union recognition.)
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Walmart workers unite, but not in a union

The New York Times reports on a movement underway among Walmart employees to back a group working toward better pay and benefits and respect at work.

Walmart's global strategy

Walmart quarterly results showed increasing earnings, but the profits driven by international sales, up more than 11 percent.
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