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The other day I received an invitation from the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) for its annual fundraising dinner in Los Angeles. But what struck my eye was the icon in the middle of the invitation: “Walmart: Gala Chair.” Let’s be clear what it means to be a gala chair: it’s essentially [...]
Archive for the ‘Walmart’ Category
October 12th, 2011
December 27th, 2008
Long American working hours are inefficient.
July 1st, 2008
Peak Solar - prices of PV modules have started to fall.
November 23rd, 2006
Category: Walmart
Some of Wal-Mart’s not-anti-gay policies are annoying the American Family Association.
October 28th, 2006
Category: Commerce and its discontents, Walmart
A comment on my Walmart post below reminded me of a grouse I’ve been nursing for some time. One thing about big stores is that they could offer a really wide variety of merchandise, and having failed to find somewhat specialized photographic items in the small neighborhood camera stores that used to be the only [...]
October 28th, 2006
I have to weigh in to the Wal-Mart discussion, because if we only talk about the retail and labor economics of this institution, we are missing something that may be even more important. I’m thinking about the degradation of everyday life Wal-Mart, and all big-box stores and malls, enforce as an inseparable condition of their [...]
October 28th, 2006
Category: Walmart
Mark’s post below notes, quite rightly, that Walmart is a Janus-faced problem for liberals. On the one hand, it helps the people we (at least me) care most about as consumers, but may (I think this is more complicated) hurt them as workers. Mark suggests that liberals need to keep hammering Walmart on their own [...]
