Topic: Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Wal-Mart vs. Costco

BY Tim Manners
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Aug 8, 2005 at 9:36 AM

The differences between Wal-Mart and Costco provide one of the most interesting studies in contrast going today. For any number of reasons, it seems that Wal-Mart is regularly (and maybe justifiably) villified while Costco is ...READ»

WAL-MART | 45 comments

The Wal-Mart Blog, Weekend Edition: What Would You Ask CEO Lee Scott?

BY Charles Fishman
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Fri Mar 10, 2006 at 10:46 AM

Last fall, addressing a conference of American magazine editors in Puerto Rico, Scott finished his speech with a little story. He said Wal-Mart staff members who travel on business for the company -- literally thousands are on the ...READ»

CUSTOMER SERVICE | Comment

Customers Last

BY Ryan Underwood
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:58 AM

These customer-service losers will shock absolutely no one.READ»

WAL-MART | 2 comments

The Wal-Mart Blog: Day Two

BY Charles Fishman
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Mar 7, 2006 at 11:05 AM

Twice since November, Wal-Mart has made significant announcements about how it buys seafood. Wal-Mart is changing how it buys shrimp, and how it buys the wild-caught fish that it sells in grocery stores across North America (Wal-Mart ...READ»

ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM | 9 comments

How Green is Wal-Mart?

BY Charles Fishman
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:23 AM

In October 2005, Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott outlined audacious environmental and sustainability goals for the company. Here's the status of some of the company's major initiatives.READ»

WAL-MART | 7 comments

The Wal-Mart Blog: Is Wal-Mart's Factory Inspections Program a Fraud?

BY Charles Fishman
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Mar 8, 2006 at 1:28 PM

One of the areas where Wal-Mart is proudest of its own performance is in the energetic program it runs to monitor the working conditions in overseas factories that make the stuff we all buy at Wal-Mart. The last thing Wal-Mart wants ...READ»

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Unintended Consequences

BY Tim Manners
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Fri Mar 31, 2006 at 1:35 PM

Wal-Mart's chief marketing officer, John Fleming, recently told the HUB magazine that Wal-Mart’s biggest challenge is its size. The comment was a little surprising because Wal-Mart's owes its success to its size, which, among other ...READ»

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Shopping Spree

BY Chuck Salter
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Apr 13, 2006 at 10:21 AM

Sure, you've read plenty about Wal-Mart in Fast Company in recent years. About the high cost of everyday low prices. About a CEO who said no to Wal-Mart. But you haven't experienced what it's like to shop with Charles Fishman, our ...READ»

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | 61 comments

The Wal-Mart You Don't Know

BY Charles Fishman
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:44 AM

The giant retailer's low prices often come with a high cost. Wal-Mart's relentless pressure can crush the companies it does business with and force them to send jobs overseas. Are we shopping our way straight to the unemployment line?READ»

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Shopping Our Way to Perdition

BY John A. Byrne
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:44 AM

This month's letter from the editor.READ»

CUSTOMER SERVICE | Comment

Feedback

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:45 AM

Letters. Updates. Advice.READ»

SUSTAINABILITY | 7 comments

The Times' Bright Idea

Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Jan 2, 2007 at 9:07 AM

To kick off the new year, The New York Times applied its journalistic might to a pretty cool story that landed on this morning's front page: "Wal-Mart Puts Some Muscle Behind Power-Sipping Bulbs." It's a fascinating report: ...READ»

WAL-MART | 7 comments

The Wal-Mart Blog: Day One

BY Charles Fishman
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Mar 6, 2006 at 12:55 PM

Fast Company senior writer Charles Fishman, who has been with the magazine since Issue #1, is the author of a bestselling book about Wal-Mart, The Wal-Mart Effect, which grew out of a story he wrote for Fast Company called, "The ...READ»

ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM | 4 comments

Moneybags

BY Elizabeth Royte
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:24 AM

Citywide plastic-bag bans are gaining momentum. But will companies be the ones that force us to change?READ»

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT | 23 comments

Ten Steps to Turn Around Wal-Mart

BY Adam Hanft
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Dec 2, 2005 at 1:24 PM

Wal-Mart has succeeded as a highly-evolved culture of the tangible by creating a dazzlingly efficient logistics operation, shaving cent-splinters off an item, and driving down overhead. This is the whole relentless apparatus that ...READ»

EMPLOYEE DISCRETIONARY EFFORT | Comment

There Are Some Things Wal-Mart Just Doesn't Get

BY Ross Reck
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Oct 14, 2008 at 2:53 PM

Wal-Mart has long been known as a very successful retailer. It is also known as an employer that pays at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to employee wages and benefits. As a result, the rates of employee theft and ...READ»

INNOVATION | Comment

What's Selling in America

BY Bill Breen
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:38 AM

If you want to convince customers to open their wallets, you've got to open your mind to new ways of connecting with them. That's why we set out on a nationwide shopping spree in search of the fearless companies and breakthrough ideas that are reinventing retail. Here's what we found.READ»

ETHICS | 29 comments

Wal-Mart Without Worries

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Dec 9, 2005 at 2:23 PM

Interesting story in today's New York Times about how U.S. consumers don't trust big businesses (free registration required). Yet, in the case of at least one company, Wal-Mart, that trust may have little or nothing to do with loss ...READ»

ADVERTISING + PR | 4 comments

Staring at the Wal

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Jan 9, 2006 at 3:05 PM

Today's New York Times article (free registration needed) on Wal-Mart executive Thomas M. Coughlin puts a spotlight on the public perception of Wal-Mart. Here is an executive who used hundreds of thousands of dollars of the company's ...READ»

CONSUMER INSIGHT | Comment

Wal-Mart Moms

BY Tim Manners
Relevancy Score: 100
Sat Sep 27, 2008 at 9:59 AM

Wal-Mart is out with a fascinating presidential election poll of its female shoppers (a.k.a. Wal-Mart Moms) that reveals as much about Wal-Mart's fortunes as it does about Obama's and McCain's. The poll of five battleground ...READ»

NEWS + CURRENT EVENTS | 5 comments

Every Day Low Prices Extended to Pouts

Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Jan 13, 2006 at 1:29 PM

Yesterday Maryland state legislators passed a law that requires companies with 10,000 employees to spend at least eight percent of their payrolls on health insurance or pay the difference into a state Medicaid fund. Wal-Mart - long ...READ»

BOOK DISCUSSIONS | 45 comments

The Wal-Mart Effect

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Jan 19, 2006 at 12:59 PM

Fast Company senior writer Charles Fishman's new book The Wal-Mart Effect -- which FC recently excerpted -- could very well be the most important book about the most important company in the world. Wal-Mart sells salmon fillets at ...READ»

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Wal-Mart's Battered Reputation

Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Feb 24, 2006 at 2:50 PM

Wal-Mart yesterday outlined some plans to improve its employee health care benefits. The move comes at a time when the big-box retailer has clearly been bruised by a torrent of name-calling from labor groups, filmmakers, and other ...READ»

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Feedback

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:24 AM

Savior or Sellout? Some of Adam Werbach's old friends in the environmental movement may not be talking to him since he signed on with Wal-Mart, but Fast Company readers had plenty to say about September's cover story. Responses ...READ»

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The Wal-Mart of Persuasion

Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Feb 28, 2006 at 12:58 PM

Another sign bad PR is getting to Wal-Mart? The giant retailer recently tapped former Atlanta mayor and United Nations ambassador Andrew Young to head its new Working Families for Wal-Mart committee -- a group charged with defending ...READ»

Topic: Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

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