{good grief} Wal-Mart Ensures Customers’ Voices Are Heard By Campaigns

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-02/wal-mart-ensures-customers-voices-are-heard-by-campaigns.html

When he first ran for president, then-Senator Barack Obama of Illinois said in May 2007 that he wouldn’t shop at Wal-Mart because the world’s largest retailer didn’t pay its workers enough.

By January 2011, first lady Michelle Obama stood with the company to announce its decision to reformulate thousands of products to make them healthier by reducing sodium and sugars.

The changed relationship between Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) and the first family is a reflection of the political evolution of the Bentonville, Arkansas-based company and the unpredictable nature of the 2012 presidential landscape.

America’s biggest private employer is becoming more sophisticated in its dealings with government, co-sponsoring events with a range of advocacy groups from business organizations to Hispanic elected officials, building a bipartisan Washington presence, and interviewing its customers on political issues. The company will also have a presence in Tampa later this month when Mitt Romney accepts the Republican Party presidential nomination, and in Charlotte next month at the Democratic Party’s convention.


*** the corporatocracy isn't going to stand still while 'we' ask? demand? for a better life for each of us.

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1. You want to get a true feeling of how Walmart treats it's

employees ? Talk with some of them that have been there for 8=10 years. Some real horror stories. You will understand why their floor staff and checkers have such robot like attitudes.
I started hearing these stories in 2001 and haven't darkened their doors since.