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cyu
24th April 2012, 11:45
http://www.chapelboro.com/What-Do-You-Lose-When-Walmart-Boxes-You-In-/12306974

Walmart's public relations department has been on the green warpath.

When asked why only 2% of their power consumption comes from renewables, they say that renewables are too expensive.

You'd expect a company that flogs us with their dedication to sustainability to put their political money where their public relations mouth is, right? Walmart has bribed (sorry, I mean supported) anti-environmental lawmakers with 60% of their $3.9 billion political war chest.

Social Science Quarterly, a hundred year old journal of respected research, published a study that determined that communities with Walmart stores end up with more poverty and a greater use of food stamps.

cyu
24th April 2012, 11:50
Shows you the kind of executive culture they have there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wal-Mart_employee_and_labor_relations

it was discovered that the entrance to one of the buildings of Walmart Chile had a plate in homage to Augusto Pinochet, only after much controversy Walmart Chile decided to remove said plate.