1 month ago
deusx : WalMart now says they'll keep the DRM servers on forever - Boing Boing - "All those companies (cough Amazon cough Apple cough) that say they're only doing DRM for now, until they can convince the stupid entertainment execs to ditch it, heed this lesson: you will spend the rest of your corporate life paying for this m
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2 month ago
deusx : Wal*Mart shutting down DRM server, nuking your music collection -- only people who pay for music risk losing it to DRM shenanigans - Boing Boing - "Hey suckers! Did you buy DRM music from Wal*Mart instead of downloading MP3s for free from the P2P networks? Well, they're repaying your honesty by taking away your music. Unless you go through a bunch of hoops (that you may never find out abou
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8 month ago
adamrg : Wal-Mart Wants $10 CDs - Well, I suppose that my interests had to align with WalMart eventually. I suppose that's not even true, I just buy off AmazonMP3.
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14 month ago
Linkorama : Walmart.com to Customers: Stop Calling - As part of what Wal-Mart is calling its “Customer Contact Reduction” program, by next week, Walmart.com, the company’s online arm, will no longer give customers a toll-free phone number to call–or any phone number, for that matter–if they have a
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14 month ago
Linkorama : Wal-Mart: Measuring Just How Green - The retailing giant launched a potentially groundbreaking initiative to measure suppliers' energy use. How hard will it push for change?
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19 month ago
adamrg : Walmart Map - I'd like to see a US states breakdown. Maybe red states vs. blue states.
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23 month ago
jimray : Wal-Mart makes an unlikely champion of energy effecient light bulbs - Aims to sell 100 million -- a 50% increase -- in a year
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Rod Begbie : How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change the World? One. And You're Looking At It. - Walmart are making a huge push to get people buying the low-energy spiral bulbs. I've been using them since we moved house and I spent far too many hours wandering the aisles of Home Depot while Joy chose paint colours. The only place we still use incan [via] #
jkottke : Wal-Mart wants to sell 100 million CFLs (compact fluorescent lightbulbs) in the next 12 months - Wal-Mart wants to sell 100 million CFLs (compact fluorescent lightbulbs) in the next 12 months. "Compact fluorescents emit the same light as classic incandescents but use 75% or 80% less electricity." Between this and the organic food, Wal-Mart is agressi
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29 month ago
Andy Baio : Wal-Mart Tries to be Myspace, Seriously - sorry, not nearly ugly enough
Linkorama : Wal-Mart Tries to Be MySpace - insane
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31 month ago
Linkorama : Wal-marts Wikipedia War - This piece does not provide enough compelling evidence that there is a war or that 'lobbyists' are at work
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33 month ago
jimray : Working At WAL-MART - Blog chronicling the life of a wage slave - looks like his "Nickeled and Dimed" style experiment is just about up, but the archives are a good read.
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37 month ago
Linkorama : Google-Mart - Sam Walton Taught Google More About How to Dominate the Internet Than Microsoft Ever Did
Andy Baio : Google-Mart - intriguing Cringely column on Google's dark fiber plans [via]
François Nonnenmacher : Google-Mart - Cringely: Sam Walton Taught Google More About How to Dominate the Internet Than Microsoft Ever Did
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37 month ago
jimray : Jim Ray, Wal-Mart apologist - You gotta read the comments, they're pretty awesome
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37 month ago
jimray : Wake-Up Wal-Mart: Sign the petition - Wal-Mart made a $5,000 contribution to Tom DeLay after he was indicted?
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37 month ago
deusx : Residents revisit Wal-Mart proposal - 10/27/05 - "Livonia seeks to work out safety concerns over plans for store at former Wonderland Mall."
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37 month ago
jimray : Wal-Mart Memo Suggests Ways to Cut Employee Benefit Costs - "Among the recommendations are hiring more part-time workers and discouraging unhealthy people from working at Wal-Mart."
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38 month ago
deusx : Wal-Mart prank - "Since I was the guy who set up everything in the electronics department for almost seven months, a few small advantages were mine alone."
Matthew M. Boedicker : Wal-mart prank
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39 month ago
jimray : Fact-esque, A Reality-Based Blog: WalMart Infects the Blogosphere - Except it's Super Secret, so Shhhhh ... - Their first stoogie? Why, it's RedState.org - shocker!
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40 month ago
Matthew M. Boedicker : do we indirectly subsidize Wal-Mart's low prices by paying for their employees' healthcare?
deusx : Here's why you can't buy the News Journal at Wal-Mart - "At any rate, Mr. Hart said he wanted the newspaper to get its racks off his lots. But he also said that if I fired Mark, we could talk about continuing to sell the newspaper at his stores."
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41 month ago
jkottke : Comparison of Costco's labor practices with those of Wal-Mart - "While Wal-Mart pays an average of $9.68 an hour, the average hourly wage of employees of [Costco] is $16."
jimray : The Costco challenge: An alternative to Wal-Martization? - Said one Wall Street analyst: "Costco?s corporate philosophy is to put its customers first, then its employees, then its vendors and finally its shareholders." And this is why I will *never* understand investment bankers' bullshit.
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42 month ago
Andy Baio : Wal-Mart and other photo labs won't develop professional looking photos - the whole world is going copyright insane [via] [via]
deusx : SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Technology -- Snap judgments - "Their photos have become collateral damage in the war on digital copyright infringement."
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43 month ago
jimray : Wal-Mart teams with Netflix on DVD rentals - So, does this now make Netflix ... evil?
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46 month ago
jimray : Wal-Mart selling Mac minis, iPod shuffles - So does this mean that Wal-Mart is less evil or that the minis are suddenly uncool?
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