How Green is Wal-Mart

How Green is Wal-Mart

How Green is Wal-Mart? Learn about Wal-mart's sustainability programs and environmental footprint. Track news about Walmart's green practices and corporate social responsibility. Share your opinion about how this retail giant should be... [more]

How Green is Wal-Mart? Learn about Wal-mart's sustainability programs and environmental footprint. Track news about Walmart's green practices and corporate social responsibility. Share your opinion about how this retail giant should be setting an example for others to follow regarding sustainability.

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Bentonville, AR—With the value of the U.S. dollar falling faster than Barack Obama’s approval ratings, Wal-Mart has seized the opportunity to begin trading with gold. They have also made plans to pay their employees with gold coins, fearing that the value of the dollar under Obama will simply cease to exist. Wal-Mart also claims that they will fire any employee that isn’t willing to accept gold in payment. President and CEO Mike Duke said that...  
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(Not shopping at WalMart might be a start, but be careful, because then you will be directly hurting the largest private provider of paid jobs on the planet). theforce says: December 28, 2009 at 3:50 am. Wal-Mart has made billions in ...  
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NATHALIE TADENA writes on ABC News: A Pennsylvania Walmart Supercenter videotaped employees and customers in a unisex bathroom, several former and current Walmart employees alleged in a lawsuit filed this week. Seven former and current employees from the Tire and Lube department at the Walmart in Easton, Pa., filed a lawsuit in county court against the Arkansas-based corporation and four local managers Dec. 21. Several employees discovered an...  
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Columbia -- A family's long legal battle against the nation's biggest retailer that helped spark stricter hiring practices companywide to protect child customers from employees with criminal histories has ended with a confidential settlement.  
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If you've been doing some last minute Amazon holiday shopping on Wednesday evening, you've probably noticed that Amazon's web site was sluggish and, at times, completely down. The same fate greeted Wal-Mart, Expedia, and a number of smaller sites. The reason? A severe DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack on the servers of Neustar, the company that offers DNS services to many major companies under the name UltraDNS.  
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If you were one of the many Internet users trying to beat the clock with holiday shopping on Wednesday, a DNS attack may have tried to spoil your plans. Users found themselves unable to access several major websites, including Amazon.com and Wal-Mart.com, during part of the day yesterday, which Amazon's DNS provider reported was a result of a DDoS attack. The DNS attack started late in the day on Wednesday and took place against...  
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Washington PostApple almost reaches market parity with Google, Wal-MartEconomic TimesThe stock surge brought Apple within striking distance of Google Inc. ($196 billion) and Wal-Mart ($204 billion). The Cupertino-based (California) software ...Apple stock soars to all-time highLos Angeles TimesApple Hints At Tablet Demo In JanuaryKatondaApple Stock Reaches All-Time High, Google, Wal-Mart Within Striking Distanceindia-server.comTechie Buzz -San...  
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World NewsWal-Mart After Christmas SalesNews TrendsThe after Christmas sales will be massive. Sales will be at the lowest level of the year. Consider the 250 GB eMachine netbook. Wal-Mart is offering this ...Best after Christmas sales on laptops and electronics coming soonExaminer.comAfter Christmas Sales @ Walmart, Best Buy, Target and Amazon.comWorld NewsFor some UK online retailers, holiday sales peak after ChristmasInternetRetailer...  
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Photo by code poet. Raising the stakes again on Wal-Mart's proposed South side expansion, Mayor Daley announced Saturday that religious leaders in the community would broker the agreement that brings Wal-Mart into Chicago, not him. “You know who’s going to start brokering? All these religious leaders,” Daley told the Tribune on Saturday. “They have members of their congregation that can’t get work. They can’t get work. They can’t even get...  
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but Vice Chairman Eduardo Castro-Wright has said Wal-Mart's online business generates several billion dollars a year. But Vazquez said Wal-Mart.com's growth has topped Amazon's by 1.4 percentage points in the first three quarters this year, although ...  
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AMERICAN CANYON -- The motive behind a brawl that broke out in the electronics department at Wal-Mart Tuesday night remains unclear, police said.American Canyon police were called to the Main Street (Highway 29) Wal-Mart Supercenter at 7:30 p.  
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With Christmas day imminent, you can understand that online shopping websites have seen larger amounts of traffic than usual. Popular sites such as Amazon and Wal-Mart are some great examples of these, but they're also prime targets for DDoS attacks, as demonstrated earlier in the day. As CNET reported earlier, a DDoS attack was launched on the servers of Neustar, a company that provides DNS services for other websites, under the name...  
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Wal-Mart often is portrayed as an uncaring corporate giant. It has an image to many as a superstore that moves into a community and pulls consumers away from their long-time, local merchants while giving nothing back. That’s not true here. Just ask the folks over at the Food Bank of East Alabama.  
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BC-NH — Murder Plot, 2nd Ld-Writethru,0133 3 sentenced in NH Wal-Mart worker’s slaying Eds: APNewsNow; adds sentences; WILL be led. By JOHN CURRAN Associated Press Writer NORTH HAVERHILL, N.H. (AP) — Three friends who played a part in the killing of a developmentally disabled Wal-Mart cashier in New Hampshire are going to prison.  
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Leave it to Wal-Mart, king of the big box retailers, to test out a fast food-like drive-through window for Internet orders. That's right--instead of waiting for online orders to arrive at home, Wal-Mart shoppers on the outskirts of ...  
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