Wal-Mart has 44 properties for sale in Wisconsin, including 9 buildings that are sitting empty. Of these 9 properties, 3 are over 100,000 s.f. The dead store in Sheboygan, Wisconsin is not even listed by Wal-Mart Realty. The company is trying to sell the one lot remaining at its new Superstore site on Vanguard Avenue in Sheboygan just a few miles away from its ‘old’ store---but it is the dead store Wal-Mart left behind that now has city officials worried.
WakeUpWalmart.com and a coalition of supporters today launched a national week of action agai
Check out our latest piece over on Huffington Post. It highlights the story of Patricia from Ohio, a Walmart worker who was faced with the choice of going to work sick or losing her job because of Walmart's irresponsible and harmful sick day policy.
Walmart started as a small five and dime store, but recently their model has been to open gigantic Super Centers often taking up acres of land with their store and massive parking lots. They typically sit on the edge of towns in suburban areas and bill themselves as a one stop shopping option.
Check out this piece from the Oakland Tribune on our kickoff event for our week of action:
I just read this post, Walmart to Chileans - "We Can Only Spare A Dime" from John Perkins, author of Hoodwinked over at the The Huffington Post and thought it was interesting, and poignant, enough to share here. Check it out:
Last week we told you about Walmart firing 300 workers from its headquarters staff as the company goes through a major restructuring.
Did you catch "Undercover Boss" after the Super Bowl?
Do you want the real story about who destroyed America's REAL economy?
We wanted to recommend a new book that just hit the shelves. In Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism And The Economics Of Destruction, New America Foundation's Barry C. Lynn takes an explosive look at how Wall Street financiers took advantage of the overthrow of our antimonopoly laws to consolidate unprecedented powers.
