Without generous financial support of six companies (AT&T, Eli Lily, Walmart, Pfizer, Coca-Cola, and Aetna), the politicians who are enacting bans on legal, safe abortion would not have attained office; these companies don’t fund these politicians because they want women to die; they fund them because they’re indifferent to the death of women, provided that they get tax breaks and other favorable treatment — the garden variety get the turkeys to vote for Christmas strategy that exchanges unlimited oligarchy for performative acts of grotesque cruelty against brown people, sexual minorities and (of course) women.
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Self-insurer Walmart flies its sick employees to out-of-state specialists to avoid local price-gougers
Walmart self-insures its workforce, rather than relying on an outside insurer like Cigna or Blue Cross; this means that it gets to make judgment calls that other firms cannot, and that has led the retail giant to a pretty weird place: for certain procedures that it believes to be overused by local hospitals, it flies its employees (even front-line, low-waged employees) to see the nation’s top specialists in out-of-state facilities where they receive “concierge, white-glove care that was reserved at other companies only for highly paid executives.”
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The National Enquirer is in the tank for Trump
The National Enquirer’s circulation peaked in 1988 at 4 million, while today it averages 325,000 copies sold, mostly to low-income, over-80-year olds. Its best retailer is Wal-Mart. It does not publish any material critical of Donald Trump.
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Walmart smears worker-based chat app with lies and scare tactics
Workit is an Android app from OUR Walmart, a pro-labor/pro-union organization: it allows Walmart workers to ask questions about Walmart policy and employee rights, which are answered by a database compiled by using IBM’s Watson to come up with answers to hundreds of frequently posed questions; questions can also be answered by other users.
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Walmarts are high-crime zones thanks to staff cuts, but America gets the bill
Starting in 2000, Walmart began an aggressive cost-cutting campaign that removed greeters, reduced floor staff, and replaced cashiers with automated checkouts; the more this went on, the higher the crime-rate at Walmart soared, everything from shoplifting to deadly violence. In true Walmart style, the world’s largest retailer has offloaded the costs associated with this crime to tax-funded law-enforcement.
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Walmart heiress donated $378,400 to Hillary Clinton campaign and PACs
Alice Walton, heiress to the Walmart fortune, donated $353,400 to Hillary Clinton’s “Victory Fund” and another $25,000 to the Ready for Hillary PAC.
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Walmart holds food drive…for Walmart employees (again!)
Once again, a Walmart store has set out a collection box for food donations to support its own employees, who are paid so little that they depend upon social assistance (and public generosity) to survive.
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Walmart heirs’ net worth exceeds that of population of a city the size of Phoenix
It’s grown 6,700% since 1983, to $144.7B in 2013 — greater than the net worth of 1,782,020 average Americans.
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Portraits of Walmart’s parking-lot nomads
Nolan Conway‘s photos of Walmart nomads document the lives of people who use Walmart’s overnight-parking-friendly lots as places to camp on their way from A to B, or for the long haul. The communities that form there run the gamut from happy-go-lucky retirees to the slightly desperate and more than slightly desperate, and the portraits give a sense of camaraderie and community.
Meet the American Nomads of Walmart’s Plentiful Parking Lots [Jakob Schiller/Wired]
Vindictive WalMart erroneously accuses couple of shoplifting, has husband deported, wife fired, costs them house and car
A newlywed couple in Birmingham, AL had problems with the automatic checkout system at WalMart, which refused to ring up their $2.90 packet of chicken necks. A WalMart employee helped them with the system, and they paid and made to leave. A security guard confronted them and accused them of stealing the chicken necks, despite their receipt, which showed they had paid. The manager was summoned, reviewed the receipt and the security footage, and concluded the couple had done nothing wrong. However, the security guard insisted on calling the police, and then WalMart contacted the INS to alert them to the husband’s legal trouble (he hadn’t yet been naturalized following his wedding to a US citizen), as well as the WalMart where the wife worked in order to get her fired. The husband was deported, the wife lost her car and home in the ensuing legal battle. They’re suing.
Plaintiff told these employees to look again as the item was on the bottom of the receipt and therefore accounted for. The security guard started screaming and asked to see the identifications of the plaintiff and her husband. The security guard screamed at the plaintiff and her husband saying they were going to be deported. The security guard, in overly loud voice, stated plaintiff and her husband were illegal and what were they doing in this country. Plaintiff asked for the assistant manager. The security guard answered by saying plaintiff and her husband were going to jail…
The assistant manager said in presence of plaintiff and her husband: ‘I see where she scanned it, I see where it’s been rung up.’ Plaintiff responded: ‘I did scan it, I told you.’ Ricky, plaintiff’s husband said I’ll pay for it again if you want me to. The assistant manager then said to the security guard: ‘Well what do you want to do?’ The security guard said he wanted to put plaintiff and her husband in jail.
…When the security guard found that Mary Hill Bonin had worked at another Wal-Mart, he called that store and informed it “that she was being charged with a Theft of Property in the Third Degree,” even though the assistant manager already had told him that the chicken bones had been bought and paid for, the Bonins say.
Wal-Mart Goes Nuclear Over Chicken Necks; Newlyweds Lose House; Husband Deported
(via Consumerist)
(Image: Red Dog Deli Chicken Back & Neck, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from doggybytes’s photostream)