lee scotts departure may be the biggest news coming from walmart lately but its not the most sustainable. for our purposes its worth noting that the bentonville retailer has pledged to purchase wind power that will provide more than 200 million kilowatthours of energy per year to stores and facilities in texas. starting next april wind power will provide 15 of all the ener...... [Show More]
good for walmart
with the thanksgiving season upon us walmart today announced that its supercenters and neighborhood markets will partner with feeding america the nations largest charitable hungerrelief organization to provide an estimated 90 million pounds of food annually the equivalent of 70 million meals to families in need by the end of 2009. donating nutritious produce ...... [Show More]
start your webday with the florida progressive coalition . if you want it weve got todays flobama our digest and commentary on todays florida political news and punditry follows. party bosses defended the expenses while rpof footsoldiers the knuckledraggers righttolifers and assorted racists were pounding the pavement for palin the swel...... [Show More]
consumerist is for sale
interesting.
sca nnerlady rsquorsq uo wins another suit against walmart for overcharging
has gained a certain level of fame recently as a champion of consumers for filing numerous smallclaims suits against retailers for what she calls electronic shopperli fting.39
happy cute eclectic thingies at fred flare in brooklyn
critical shopper...... [Show More]
aufgrund einiger social media marketing projekte bei ahead of time haben wir eine liste mit relevanten social media marketing kampagnen zusammen gestellt. dabei haben wir festgestellt dass bereits aber 300 firmen und unternehmen social media als neues marketing instrument nutzen. einige mehr einige weniger .. aber die ersten versuche und pilotprojekte wurden umgesetzt.
das aktuelle ...... [Show More]
bats deadly bat disease linked to coldloving fungus scientists have pinpointed the fungus linked to whitenose syndrome the mysterious ailment that has wiped out large populations of bats in the northeastern united states.
bees beekeepers protest outside downing street britain will suffer agricultural disaster unless more money is put into discovering what it killing the n...... [Show More]
le projet walmartwatch qui danonce les abus en tous genres du no 1 mondial de la distribution walmart vient de sortir une vidao parodiant harry potter afin de danoncer les manques de walmart en matiare de couverture santa de ses employas....... [Show More]
halloween may be over but that doesnt mean the face paint is put away. most children love having their faces painted and will use any activity as an excuse to do so .
make sure you are reading all the packaging and choosing safe products to put on your childs skin. this halloween walmart sold a package of six makeup crayons for 1.00 . there are two warnings on the packa...... [Show More]
via groundswell
by josh bernoff
i just got back from a trip to bentonville arkansas home of americas largest and perhaps most controversial retailer . while there i met with the companys top management it staff and a couple of social media folks.
you may believe that this company will never get it and that in any cases it has so many enemies that entering the soc...... [Show More]
far einen akademiker ist es immer wieder wichtig sich zu erden vor allem wenn er sich mit so praktischen dingen wie der unternehmens oder onlinekommunikation beschaftigt. insofern sind workshops zu denen ich von unternehmen als experte eingeladen bin auch immer far mich hochspannend und lehrreich. so auch der social mediaworkshop zu dem daimler den prblogger klaus eck und mich diese...... [Show More]
every week blue state digitals strategy and communications team helps walmart watch work with local communities on site fights places that are struggling to keep a walmart out of their town.
one recent site fight caught our eye and we knew we had to do something special about it.
walmart wants to build a supercenter just a quartermile away from the histo...... [Show More]
this video is part of a new project from walmart watch called
walmart employees speak out that launched earlier today.
the site
which features stories and video from current and former
walmart
employees is dedicated to giving walmarts workers a chance
to talk
about how the companys lowwage poorbenefits business
model has
impacted their lives. ch...... [Show More]
bad faith. Post Source: thewritingonthewal.net Posted: Oct 16 2008 20:39:54
stupid walmart watch. i start planning a blogging break after two posts today and they go and pull me back in
walmart canada announced thursday that it was shutting the gatineau outlet because a union contract which came into force in august didnt fit with its business model. it is the second time walmart has shut a quebec outlet after its workers decided to form a union.
in a...... [Show More]
ive been having an ongoing argument with a republican friend of mine about john mccains health care plan. when i argued that the republican wanted to tax benefits my friend sent me this
biden and obama want to leave voters with the impression that they are going to get a 5000 tax credit from mccain even though health insurance costs 12000 per family on average. wheres ...... [Show More]
i think that we all know about the crisis on wall street now and furthermore i think that the vast majority of people knowing little about economics other than from high school and the liberal media are quick to blame it on the gop. nothing could be further from the truth. during the periods where our economy and our corporations were unregulated by governmental blather we were at our wealthie...... [Show More]
i was thinking about writing something like this but walmart watch beat me to it
remember walmarts check out blog the one that the new york times gushed over back in march the rowdy band of nine fearless buyers walmart unleashed to conquer the blogosphere with unfiltered wit and opinion the birth of check out was a time of youthful idealism finally a corporate blog where ideas cou...... [Show More]
there has been some posturing about the approval process for iphone applications by some developers who think that apple needs to preapprove their application ideas before they waste all their time and effort on creating their product.a some have gone on to cite capitalist economy theories and opportunity cost of the time they spend creating the application when they could be focusing their en..... [Show More]
my fraternity brother greg lives in michigan and like a lot of people there he works indirectly for the auto industry. the economy in that state is really sucking hard so the buy american slogan has just a bit more significance.
gregs always got some great new idea or invention but when we were drunktalking at a wedding this summer and he told me about his new brilliant ...... [Show More]
conventional wisdom holds that no matter how altruistic a company starts its growth eventually turns those values insideout and creates a monster.
during my own career i have seen this happen twice to walmart and microsoft. with the launch of google chrome the nattering classes insist it is happening to them as well.
back in the early 1980s walmart was an upstart bringing big city ba...... [Show More]
i recently dispelled the 4rd myth in myarecruitment marketing series 5 myths of recruitment marketing .a today i want toadiscuss the final myth 5 social media is only read by youth and its not an effective tool for recruitment marketing.
during a recent seminar on recession proof social marketing i presented challenges business people face and the fear related to this new m...... [Show More]
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