Walmart now in the process of buying good publicity...

[Bonhomme Richard]

Donating to PBS and paying for journalist to go to school is certainly one way to change thier image.
Hey Walmart, instead of trying to buy good publicity why don't you just try being a decent employer?
They really don't get it.

"Wal-Mart announced plans to award $500,000 in scholarships to minority students at journalism programs around the country, including Howard University, University of Southern California and Columbia University."

"We've really been in the spotlight and I think that's made us especially sensitive to the need for balanced coverage," Ms. Williams said. "It doesn't matter if the subject is Wal-Mart or something else. You just aren't going to have that unless different perspectives are represented." Without diversity, she added, "the result can be narrower thinking as news events are presented to the public."

NYT story link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/16/business/16walmart.html

[Desipient]

1. Wal-Mart is just fine the way they are

All these 'image' expenditures only serve to make them have to raise the prices they have to charge people. The poor who do a lot of shopping there need to make every precious dime they spend there go as far as it can.
You don't have to change a thing, Wal-Mart. We love you like you are.

[KittyWampus]

4. Speak For Youself- Walmart Is Subsidized By Taxpayers

who have to foot the bill for emergency room medical its employees get because they can't afford good, preventative medical care.

Gee, Walmart teaches it's employees how to apply for food stamps.

Walmart employees must live on welfare.

They recieve food stamps, medicare, housing assistance.

[JanMichael]

6. Bullshit. They drive down wages, thus helping to create those poor folks..

...that have to shop there.

They force other corporations to pay less, thus helping to create those poor folks that have to shop there.

They only insure about 40% of their 900,000 or so employees too thus passing on the costs to Government and other companies.

WalMart SUCKS, we don't like them the way they are.

[Tight_rope]

7. Yeah..and the employees live in "GATED COMMUNITIES" with a

golf course in the back yard and they are able to pay for all those private schools their children attend. And let's not forget that the Walmart employees and their families can afford to take a summer vacation and "Go down to Disney Land" EVERY summer!

[alarimer]

8. Wal-Mart sucks

It is the worst of the greedy corporations.

[jab105]

9. And who pays for those employees who dont get paid above

the poverty line for working a full time job...

YOU DO!!

You and me and our government subsidize Walmart for paying their employees crap...you should be pretty pissed about that!!

Check out Costco and compare the two...then write out your analysis here and we will talk about it...k?
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=10608

[mitchum]

10. What a tool!

[demosincebirth]

2. Trying to buy good press, while...

half of their employees are on public assistance.

[sally343434]

3. NPR gives them what they pay for

Ever since NPR has been playing their "endorsement" announcements, there has been a dearth of stories about what a blight on humanity Walmart is. Even the recent study showing that taxpayers actually subsidize Walmart got scant attention -- maybe a sentence or two in a list of headlines.

To a republican, Walmart is where all the "lucky duckies" should shop.

[KittyWampus]

5. The GOP- Cheap Labor Party

but they're too chickenshit to say that in public.

[arcane1]

11. um, ok...

people who work at Wal Mart can't afford to shop anywhere else..

you wonder why?