The Wall Street Journal is on top of the latest infighting amongst the retail industry over health care: The retail industry’s biggest trade group is launching a broad attack against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for supporting congressional proposals ...

Jonathan has written before and continues to write about how Walmart’s sick-leave policy for employees all but guarantees that shopping in a Walmart puts you at risk of becoming infected with some any number of viral and bacterial contagions. But for...

We’ve been over this before, but this is a nice summary. The only explanation for Walmart’s sick sick day policy is that they don’t care about labor turnover. Who wants to work for a company that doesn’t care about labor turnover? Desperate people...

The story reads like a not-even-rewritten news release from the Walflacks. At first I didn’t give the story my attention, but then on a hunch I Googled Coahoma County Initiative and got exactly four hits, all tied o the news release. My bullshit...

In college I worked discount retail in the summer and over winter break. Ohio University broke before Thanksgiving so I had four or five weeks of work. Christmas eve was always the last day of work. Laying off earlier doesn’t send good signals about...

People send me Walmart jokes. My dad sends me Walmart jokes. As Uncle Bob noted a while back, they’re mostly the same tired jokes told over and over again. Finally, I came across one that is, at least to me, new. Enjoy. A man and his wife were doing...