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Wal-Mart is threatening legal action to silence an independent lab which found that several Chinese made pet toys sold at Wal-Mart contained elevated levels of lead, chromium, and cadmium. Wal-Mart says the lab "severely misrepresented" the results. The lab stands by the results as rock solid, and goes on to say:
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As noted above, Wal-Mart is restricting women's access to emergency contraception. Fewer women who have had unprotected sex will be able to use the pill. The number of unwanted pregnancies will increase. This will, in turn, generate an increase in the U.S. abortion rate.
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Corporations are not required to report what they pay in state taxes on a state-by-state basis, preventing a state-by-state breakdown of how Wal-Mart rigs the system. But one state, Wisconsin, does disclose the taxes that corporations pay annually, providing insight into how other states are individually hurt by Wal-Mart's $2.3 billion in tax avoidance over the past seven years:
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Despite widespread consumer opposition, Wal-Mart began item-level RFID (radio frequency identification) tagging of consumer goods last week as part of a trial in Texas. In an apparent effort to minimize the backlash to its use of RFID tags, Wal-Mart has ... begun a public relations campaign to promote the technology that some are calling unethical.
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Wal-Mart's claim of adding 100,000 new jobs to the economy is completely false. In fact, general merchandise industry employment (the category which Wal-Mart is in) has actually fallen by 1,000 jobs over the last three years from 2,628,000 to 2,627,000.
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Wal-Mart's response to the defeat - after it spent more than $1 million in PR for the Inglewood referendum - was remarkable for its dismissal of the democratic process. "We are disappointed that a small group of Inglewood leaders together with representatives of outside special interests were able to convince a majority of Inglewood voters that they don't deserve the job opportunities and shopping choices that others in the LA area enjoy," Wal-Mart told PR Week.
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