Let's face it. To some extent we're all socialists - me, you, everyone! Yep.
To be more specific, we're card carrying socialists! Just look in your wallet and take out that aged, little light blue colored card with the drawing of columns on each side and the banner across the top proclaiming "Social Security"!
That little card is proof that we are all participants in a taxpayer-funded, government program that promises us when we reach 65 (62 if we want to get less money) that we will start receiving a monthly check from the U.S. Read more
Talks opened in Jacksonville on March 12, the United Food and Commercial Workers report. Now we'll see if they get anywhere.
The saga began when the meat cutters in the Wal-Mart store in Jacksonville voted to have UFCW Local 540 represent them. They were the first Wal-Mart workers in the U.S. to vote to unionize.
Wal-Mart, the nation's largest private Read more
Prior research into the impact that Wal-Marts entry has on incumbent retailers has focused mainly on the incumbent retailers sales and other outcome measures. Little is known, however, about how incumbent retailers adapt their marketing mix activities in reaction to the Wal-Mart entry.
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Employees who worked for Wal-Mart as of the end of the fiscal year on Jan. 31 will get the bonuses, said Daphne Davis Moore, Wal-Mart spokeswoman. Even hourly employees who were among the 800 laid off at the corporate office in Bentonville in February will get bonus checks, Moore said.
The bonus figures released Wednesday afternoon exclude salaried personnel, she said.
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When a Wal-Mart comes to town, trying to compete with the big-box store by reducing prices does not help, concludes a two-year study by the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University in Hanover, N.H.
The study found that after a new Wal-Mart store opened, local supermarkets in seven regions of the U.S. suffered sales declines of 17%, while mass merchandisers saw sales fall 40% and drug stores saw a 6% decline in sales.
And when prices were reduced or when the assortment carried by the local store was
Read moreOrganic Center Releases Obesity and Diabetes Report
The Center is releasing on Thursday, March 5th, 2009, a "Critical Issue report" entitled "That First Step – Organic Food and a Healthier Future" written by Dr. Chris McCullum-Gomez, Dr. Charles Benbrook, and Dr. Richard Theuer. The "Executive Summary" and
Read moreThe Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry will receive $14 million as part of a settlement between Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and state workers who sued the world's biggest retailer over not paying them for all hours they had worked.
Wal-Mart won preliminary court approval on Tuesday to pay $54.3 million to settle the lawsuit.
"The settlement allows recovery on points where the court ruled against the plaintiffs," workers' attorney Justin Perl said in a hearing Wednesday urging approval. "We believe the terms of the payment to the Department of Labor and Industry is the
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