As Wal-Mart continues to push suppliers to the brink of death, more and more suppliers are opening up about their relationships with Wal-Mart. The stories all contain one common denominator: “It’s always hard to make money from Wal-Mart orders.” And while big brands like Proctor and Gamble can supply Wal-Mart at cost, smaller suppliers do so and “wait to die”. In an article from Sinotoys.net, “Bo Lin” (an alias), a toy supplier for Wal-Mart, describes the woes of working with the giant. Aside from Wal-Mart’s low cost bargaining tactics, Bo Lin also describes being bribed by Wal-Mart factory inspection officials to pass inspection, regardless of the circumstances in his factories.
“We’re a small enterprise. Life and death can happen in a split second,” Bo Lin said great anguish.
Last month, a business owned by a friend of Bo Lin’s closed down. That was a stationery processing plant with sales that surpassed 400 million [RMB]. Almost all the goods were supplied to Wal-Mart. Bo Lin’s factory is also a Wal-Mart supplier. “We all used to do business with Wal-Mart for the glory,” Bo Lin said describing the initial excitement of becoming a Wal-Mart supplier.
During our interview, Bo Lin repeated that sentence 5 times.
But after 4 years of struggle within Wal-Mart’s supply chain, Bo Lin is determined to withdraw. “Four years is the cycle of death and rebirth”. This is “established law” for all of Wal-Mart’s suppliers. The difference is only whether to die or withdraw.
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WAL-MART AND THE ‘POORING OF AMERICA’
I’m not sure where the phrase “Pooring of America” came from, but it’s perfect to explain Wal-Mart’s effect on working families. Seeking Alpha ponders why Wal-Mart and McDonald’s are doing so well right now.
What are McDonald’s and Wal-Mart Telling Us? [Seeking Alpha]
I am very intriqued by our top 2 choices for the “Pooring of America” trend - Walmart (WMT) and McDonalds (MCD) - what exactly are the charts above telling us? If we are to enter a long drawn-out recession, which I have believed, these seem to be screaming buys here. The only question is credit - how does a lack of credit potentially hurt both. They are not expanding a ton, in the U.S. at least - perhaps with Wal-mart it’s financing of inventory, but I cannot wrap my mind around this behavior.
Wal-Mart gets downgraded while stock up in 2008 amid the turmoil [BloggingStocks]
Will Wal-Mart weather the storm? To a point, it already is. Sure, all retailers are expected to have a dismal holiday season this winter, but Wal-Mart will do better than the competition. It has more stores, more pricing leverage and more wherewithal to hold customers hostage with lower prices and inventory turns at a time when it’s needed most. Perhaps we’ll see WMT return to the $60/share level by Thanksgiving—if not sooner.
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Parents beware: If you live in Owasso, Wisconsin, you may want to give a closer listen to what your children’s dolls are saying. If your child has a “Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle and Coo” doll purchased at Wal-Mart or Target stores in the area, it could be among those reported to be saying things like: “Islam is the light” and “Satan is King.” The dolls are supposed to squirm around and make baby noises and only word the doll is supposed to be able to say is “mama.” A release from Fisher-Price had this to say:
Because the original sound track is compressed into a file that can be played through an inexpensive toy speaker, actual sounds may be imprecise. Attached is the original sound file for your reference, in which you can clearly hear that the doll does not say any phrases or words.
KJRH in Tulsa, OK posted this video and sound-byte in a story updated today. Some stores have removed the doll from shelves.
The doll was reviewed by a site called Tech Talk for Families; the author didn’t seem to notice anything unusual about what the doll was saying but the three pages of comments following the article seem to think something is strange about what it says.
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Just in time Three months before the holidays, Wal-Mart is challenging fellow toy retailers to try to match its prices on Christmas gifts. The retailer has a history of relentlessly undercutting its competitors, but rival retailers like Target and KB Toys aren’t taking Wal-Mart’s price cuts lying down. After announcing its price cuts last week, several other retailers countered with price cuts of their own. With any luck, the cuts will convince parents to spend big and spend soon on toys for Christmas.
The race to the bottom on toy prices shows how influential retailers can be in setting prices for the products sold in their stores. Wal-Mart might be losing money on its $10 Barbie dolls, but it’s dragging the entire toy industry down with it. One interesting quote, from an executive at Toys ‘R’ Us, highlighted how narrow-minded shoppers’ focus can be: “value is not just about cheapness,” he said, and he’s right. Wal-Mart’s toys might be cheap, but problems persist with almost every aspect of the manufacturing process. Are workers rights, American wages and children’s safety worth a $10 toy?
Wal-Mart Sparks War Among Big Toy Sellers [Wall Street Journal]
Retail price wars are starting early this year, and the latest weapon is the $10 toy—a signal that retailers are bracing for a rough-and-tumble Christmas shopping season.
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SANTA TO WORK LONGER HOURS WITHOUT OVERTIME THIS YEAR
Wal-Mart announced this week that it will start cutting toy prices almost three months before Christmas. To which Santa Claus replied, “Seriously?”
Wal-Mart starts the discounting early this year [BloggingStocks]
According to The Wall Street Journal, “Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. said it will cut prices on some of the most popular toys and speed up the opening of Christmas shops in its stores nationwide as it tries to lure budget-conscious shoppers and jump start its biggest selling season.”
Wal-Mart: Coal In The Retail Industry’s Stocking [24/7 Wall St.]
Wal-Mart’s action is a typical method for burying the competition. It can afford almost endless inventory build-ups for the busy shopping season. It can pull in the very modest amount that the consumer has to spend and leave other retailers with scraps off the table.
In which Walmart explains why we’re all doomed. [Writing on the Wal]
Obviously, I’m a masochist. I actually read Walmart’s press release on its early rollback of toy prices. While the Play-Doh Ice Cream Shop would be tempting if it weren’t Walmart we’re talking about here, I was much more struck by the survey results at the bottom of the document. Most notably:
Sixty-one percent of Americans do not plan on making cut-backs on how much they spend this Christmas season.
*Those who do plan on making cut-backs, plan on cutting back $50 or less.
Don’t you think that result seems just a tad self-interested? Why is that stat there if not to convince people to spend more whether they can afford to or not? I suspect Walmart has declared Christmas early because they’re afraid nobody will have any money left in December.
After the jump, Wal-Mart shuts down DRM music downloads, managers make up their own rules and 210,000 toasters get recalled.
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Christmas decorations usually start showing up in stores starting in early November. By the time Thanksgiving rolls around, shallow panic sets in and consumers start acting like starving hyenas hungry for merchandise. Retailers only make the savage atmosphere worse by discounting for a-limited-time-only and pitting shopper against shopper for the hottest toy or lowest price. Now, a full three months before Christmas, Wal-Mart says: Let the games begin.
Wal-Mart Cuts Prices on Toys for Holidays [Dow Jones Newswire via Wall Street Journal]
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said it will cut prices on some of the most popular toys and speed up the opening of Christmas shops in its stores nationwide as it tries to lure budget-conscious shoppers and jump start its biggest selling season.
Ten toys, from butterfly-winged Barbie Mariposa to Fur Real Newborn Animals, are priced at $10 apiece, the Bentonville, Ark.-based company said Wednesday.
Wal-Mart said its moves to get an early start on the holiday selling season are warranted for several reasons. Shoppers are facing higher energy prices and food costs as well as a sluggish economy and the credit crunch. They are expected to start their Christmas shopping earlier and make other changes to help stretch their holiday budgets.
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Several retailers including Wal-Mart have been named in a nationwide class action for their participation in selling polycarbonate plastic baby bottles and toddler training cups containing the controversial hormone BPA.
This whole BPA - or Bisphenol-A - controversy is not a good thing. BPA is a key compound used in polycarbonate plastics, which are clear and nearly shatter-proof (a good thing), and also possibly toxic and poisoning us and our children daily (apparently bad...very, very bad). These plastics are used to make a variety of common products including baby and water bottles, sports equipment, medical devices, lenses, CDs, and household electronics...a fact that, in the interest of full disclosure, actually made me check the bottom of my water bottle this morning to make sure I wasn’t slowly killing myself.
The lawsuit in question was filed in Georgia, and you can read the (very long) complaint here, in which defendants are accused of manufacturing and selling materials made with BPA despite knowledge of likely adverse affects. In addition to Wal-Mart, retailers such as CVS, Target, and Kroger have been named in the suit. Also named were manufacturers of the bottles themselves, including Evenflo, Gerber, and Playtex. The best part of this whole thing - not only have over a hundred studies been produced in the last decade warning of the adverse affects of BPA, but apparently in deeming the compound safe the FDA decided to rely on only two, both of which were produced by the American Plastics Council. So kudos to the FDA for that.
The lawsuit has been filed in the U.S District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. You can read the release on it below.
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Wal-Mart-owned Asda has added its latest entry into the company’s history of bizarre stories. The grocer was recently forced by outraged consumers to recall pet toys made with real animal fur at 275 of its stores. One of the toys was confirmed to have been made with rabbit’s fur, which infuriated animal rights protests, arguing that fur is acquired barbaric conditions. The activists suspect that many of the toys could be made with dog or cat fur, since Asda asks few questions of its Chinese suppliers. (Read: your cat could be chewing on its cousin’s skin.) They have also called on the government to mandate labeling so that consumers can be aware which fur is real and which is synthetic. Asda’s manufacturer has called it a ‘slip-up,’ but this most recent business blunder surely leaves writers thinking “you can’t write stories this good.”
Read the full story below:
Outrage as supermarket giant sells real fur toy [Sunday Herald (U.K.)]
OUTRAGED CONSUMERS have forced supermarket giant Asda to remove pet toys made out of real fur from 275 of its stores. The consumer campaign has exposed how many items, which customers are buying on the high street in the belief that they are made from fake fur, are actually made from real fur.
Animal rights protesters noticed the Swipe’n’Sway toy, a cuddly mouse for cats to play with, in an Asda store in the Wirral near Liverpool and sent it for testing. It was found to be made from rabbit fur. Animal groups are warning that there is a chance that toys from other stores could be made from cat or dog fur because Chinese suppliers are not honest about what they are selling.
The toy found its way on to shelves after a slip-up by manufacturer, Hartz.
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SHAREHOLDERS MEETING: MORE SHOW, LESS SUBSTANCE
Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban are going to be performing in Bentonville next week! And some band we’ve never heard of called Lifehouse (and Taylor Swift)! WE’RE SO EXCITED ABOUT THE ENTERTAINMENT WE CAN’T EVEN REMEMBER WHY THE MEETING IS HAPPENING IN THE FIRST PLACE oh wait, yes we do.
Wal-Mart to Shareholders: Just Say No [The Iconoclasts]
Lay up groceries and rent some DVDs before the Wal-Mart shareholders descend on Fayetteville and occupy the city next week. The big annual meeting is scheduled for June 6 at the University of Arkansas, the corporate giant’s wholly-owned subsidiary. They are coming to be entertained and to vote against any shareholder proposals to reform policy or hold management responsible for their actions.
Wal-Mart’s habit of entertaining visitors rather than conducting actual business has everyone raising eyebrows:
Wal-Mart’s green efforts becoming a smokescreen? [BloggingStocks]
Next week’s annual shareholder’s meeting in Fayetteville should once again be more spectacle that business.Last year, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) seemed to spend more money lining up speakers, having pieces of its global operations dance with flags and having a pep rally rather that digging into issues.This year, expect the same—as the retailer has already opposed all the shareholder proposals anyway, so it should be a nice, big party full of entertainment. Nothing else.
Wal-Mart’s emphasis on entertainment have activists decrying the retailer’s lack of commitment to the social issues on this year’s proxy. Pam’s House Blend states,
Call me less than flabbergasted, but Wal-Mart is opposed to a shareholder proposition to add gender identity and expression to their non-discrimination policy...this is the second major corporation we’ve tracked at Pam’s House Blend that has used their DiversityInc rating (Wal-Mart was no. 41 of top 50 company’s for diversity in 2007; Verizon was no 1 on the same list for 2008) as to why the corporation doesn’t feel a need to specifically add gender identity and expression language into their non-discrimination policies.
After the jump, Menu Foods settles with pet owners over melamine-tainted food, Wal-Mart’s environmental policy, classified ads and look out! There’s scorpions in the watermelons!
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More news from Wal-Mart’s Department of Ironic Double Standards: mere hours after promising to raise toy quality standards, Wal-Mart got slammed today by the Baltimore Health Commissioner for selling kids’ jewelry with 117 times the legal limit of lead in it. Because as long as Wal-Mart can put out press releases with appealing promises, it doesn’t actually matter what the company is doing.
Before Wal-Mart tries to raise the quality standards for its toys, it needs to meet its current standards first. More testing, more oversight, fewer corners cut in overseas factories and fewer press releases.
Children’s jewelry with high lead levels found in city stores [Baltimore Sun]
Two city businesses have received citations for selling children’s jewelry with excessively high levels of lead, Baltimore health officials announced today.
The Wal-Mart at 2701 Port Covington Drive was cited for selling stud earrings with blue hearts produced by Girl Connection, which were found to have 70,400 parts per million of lead. The Murray’s at 2317 E. Northern Parkway was cited for two vending machine necklaces that had lead levels of 2,940 parts per million and 3,740 parts per million, according to the Baltimore City Health Department.
The products were identified as part of 17 items of children’s jewelry tested last month by the health department. City regulations adopted in September limit children’s jewelry to no more than 600 parts per million of total lead content.
As a result of the citation, Wal-Mart management has stopped selling Girl Connection merchandise at stores across the nation, according to city Health Commissioner Dr. Joshua M. Sharfstein.
City officials say they have banned the items from being sold in Baltimore and also alerted the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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Growing concern about the safety of toys sold in the U.S. has lawmakers, retailers and parents wondering how to address the problem. While big retailers like Wal-Mart undoubtedly play a huge role in the problem, other players are stepping up to try to address the issue. Washington state has just passed a bill setting strict restrictions for lead content in children’s products. Washington lawmakers have the best intentions for kids in mind, and major toy retailers have predictably balked at the prospective regulations. Though Washington’s bill is a great step forward, toys are already exceeding existing lead standards, indicating the problem is not so much with the laws but with compliance. How does Washington intend to enforce these standards? Will the state increase funding for toy testing and inspection?
States Alter Rules of Game On Safety for Toy Makers [Wall Street Journal]
In a move that has alarmed the toy industry, lawmakers in the state of Washington have overwhelmingly passed a bill that would set the toughest restrictions in the nation on the lead content of children’s products.
The bill would reduce the allowable level of lead in toys and other goods to 90 parts per million—and possibly as low as 40 parts per million, the recommended limit of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and far below the current federal standard of 600 parts per million. It would also set tough limits on cadmium, a metal used in paints and plastics, and on plastic-softening chemicals called phthalates that have been linked to childhood developmental problems, in some studies.
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THE BRAIN DAMAGE JOKES JUST WRITE THEMSELVES
The Center for Environmental Health released findings this week that several Hannah Montana products - manufactured in China and sold at Wal-Mart - contain high levels of lead. While it seems all too easy to link the Hannah Montana phenomenon and brain damage, the truth is that it’s not just HM products that pose a risk to young’uns. This is only the latest in a long line of product warnings about merchandise made in China and sold at Wal-Mart. A pattern, perhaps?
Hannah Montana’s Killing Spree: It’s Not Over Yet [Idolator]
Not content with potentially maiming fans who would dare to buy boots branded with her name, Miley Ray Cyrus/Hannah Montana is continuing her reign of merchandise terror, this time through the use of toxic levels of lead paint in somewhat-innocent-looking vinyl purses.
Do Not Chew Your Hannah Montana Toys [Glitterati]
Miley Cyrus may be a good influence on her young fans, but Miley-branded products - manufactured in China for Disney and sold at Wal*Mart - are loaded with lead, according to CNN and the Center For Environmental Health. Oops.
Don’t Lick Miley Cyrus! [E! Online]
Chinese-made Hannah Montana products - like her backpack and purses - have been found to contain up to 14 times the federal standard for lead in paint, the Center for Environmental Health says.
After the jump, we can’t get enough of the celebrity gossip!, Dell moves in to China and Wal-Mart gets taken to task for selling Guitar Hero.
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Concerns about toy safety took a big bite out of holiday sales this year, and toy makers are working to reassure consumers. This video from CNN discusses the industry’s efforts, and how toy makers are using safety as a selling point.
The story comes out on a day when CPSC director Nancy Nord chastised the toy industry for ineffective safety procedures. Nord placed the bulk of the blame for unsafe toys on manufacturers, but retailers like Wal-Mart and Toys ‘R’ Us play a major role in the problem. Both companies have announced plans to increase toy safety standards, effectively mandating industry-wide changes.
These moves seem to avoid the real root of the problem. Wal-Mart’s toys are already failing to meet the company’s requirements, and raising standards won’t address the fact that toys are produced in fly-by-night factories and too often not tested for chemicals. Toy makers should be testing toys more frequently and more thoroughly, a process which Wal-Mart has said little about. As it stands, Wal-Mart relies on a single laboratory for its product safety testing. The lab - Consumer Testing Laboratories in Bentonville, Ark. - is paid by Wal-Mart for its services, raising some questions about the lab’s objectivity. Not only has Wal-Mart failed to address these ethical problems, it has also neglected to increase or improve its testing practices.
Wal-Mart, Toys ‘R’ Us unveil new safety rules [CNN Money]
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Outrage surrounding new reports on the safety of plastic used to make some baby bottles has parents angry at retailers like Wal-Mart. Concerns that bottle plastic leaches chemicals into baby formula have popped up in dozens of news sources over the last few days. Now, parents are pointing fingers at Wal-Mart for continuing to sell the products despite the dangers.
Despite more than two years of warnings about the possible dangers of the chemical bisphenol A (BPA), manufacturers continue to widely use it to make baby bottles, toys and beverage containers, and stores like Wal-Mart, Target, and Toys “R” Us continue to carry the products, according to a new study from the Center for Health Environment and Justice, a Virginia-based environmental activist organization.
BPA is a synthetic sex hormone that mimics estrogen. Scientists have linked low doses of BPA to obesity, diabetes, thyroid disease, breast cancer, prostate cancer and other illnesses in lab tests on animals.
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Wal-Mart’s cutting prices in hopes of boosting sales. This video from CNN explains that sourcing products from companies based in the United States would help even more. Click here for the video on CNN’s site.
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Amidst the seemginly endless toy recalls this past year, one question remains unanswered: who is ultimately responsible for ensuring the quality of consumer products in the United States? The head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Nancy Nord, is pointing to retailers. Chronically underfunded and increasingly understaffed, it’s almost impossible for the CPSC to inspect all the imports coming in from overseas. Instead, Nord hopes to focus the CPSC on domestic-made goods, as the agency was intended to do, and leave inspection of imported goods up to retailers like Wal-Mart. What do you think: who should be responsible for these products? Do retailers like Wal-Mart have any responsibility to ensure the quality of the goods they sell?
Safety Push Focuses on Retailers [Wall Street Journal]
Retailers may come under increased scrutiny from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the agency’s acting chairman said yesterday.
Nancy Nord said the shift in strategy is necessary because many of the 15,000 household products regulated by the agency are made abroad, not in the U.S. as most were when the agency was created in 1973. At that time, most of the agency’s enforcement efforts were focused on product manufacturers.
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Posted by Alex Goldschmidt | Permalink
Just before Christmas, a story emerged about Daryl Hill, a father in Tennessee who purchased an mp3 player for his daughter, only to find out that the player was loaded with pornography. The incident scarred both Daryl and his daughter, but more disturbing is the fact that Daryl Hill’s story seems to be part of a series of similar complaints. A father in Florida found porn on the iPod he bought at Wal-Mart for his son, and parents in Chicago found porn on the Zune they purchased at Wal-Mart as well.
The bigger question here is how this content is getting on to supposedly “new” electronics. Perhaps Wal-Mart’s employees are reselling returned merchandise. This would be a direct violation of company policy and retail bylines, but an understandable effort on the part of managers to boost narrow profit margins. A more worrisome alternative is that employees are purposesfully sabotaging Wal-Mart’s merchandise. This could spell trouble for products across the board, and potentially dangerous consequences. Either way, treating employees better and staffing stores appropriately would help prevent situations like this in the future.
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Jan03
Aisle of Misfit Toys
Corrine Compton got an unexpected surprise Christmas morning.
The 7-year-old opened up her Polly Pocket toy plane set—purchased at a Sumter, South Carolina Wal-Mart—and found a prison shank inside.
Corrine’s parents took the toy back to Wal-Mart and demanded an explanation for how a blade wrapped in electrical tape got inside their daughter’s toy. They walked out of the store without a replacement toy, refund or satisfactory response from Wal-Mart.
And the Comptons aren’t the only unhappy Wal-Mart customers this holiday season. Daryl Hill bought an MP3 player for his 10-year-old daughter at a Sparta, Tennessee Wal-Mart that was preloaded with pornography and explicit songs about using drugs.
These may sound like isolated incidents, but they’re the types of stories that happen all too often at Wal-Mart stores. When Wal-Mart lowers its prices, it’s lowering the quality and safety of its products too.
Visit RecallWalMart.com, watch Corrine’s story, and tell Wal-Mart’s CEO Lee Scott to put customers’ safety first:
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Across the country this week, citizens and activists are taking a stand against Wal-Mart. It’s the busiest selling season for the reatiler, and local communities are standing up to its unfair practices, unsafe products and unacceptable behavior. From Wake Up Wal-Mart:
Through its relentless pressure on suppliers to reduce costs, Wal-Mart fosters a corporate culture that encourages cheap manufactures to cut costs and cut corners. The result is that American children are literally placed in harms way when they play with cheaply-made toys from retailers like Wal-Mart.
Local papers have covered allied protests in Minnesota, several in California, and, below, Michigan.
Candlelight vigil against a Wal-Mart in Lincoln Park [Detroit News]
A candlelight vigil is slated for 6-7 p.m. tonight at the Lincoln Park Shopping Center on the northwest corner of Southfield and Dix-Toledo by a group that hopes to keep mega-retailer Wal-Mart from moving into center.
The group, called Wake up Wal-Mart Downriver, claims the discount chain destroys local businesses by undercutting prices, and sells unsafe products imported from China.
Nick Infante, Michigan spokesman for Wal-Mart, said the company now has no plans for a store at the site, which straddles the Allen Park/Lincoln Park border, with about 75 percent of the property in Lincoln Park.
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Posted by Alex Goldschmidt | Permalink
Scrooge doesn’t look so bad: he just made Bob come into work on Christmas Day. Wal-Mart, on the other hand, takes money from communities, mistreats employees, and with its low-quality toys, keeps millions of kids from having a happy holiday. Merry Christmas indeed...
‘Twas the night before Christmas, And all through Wal-Mart
There were no toys laying, In one single shopping cart
Barbie had lead, Aqua-Dots caught with drugs
And the prepackaged fruitcake? Infested with bugs
Lee Scott was nestled, all snug in his bed
While visions of profit danced in his head
The toys were all gone, they’d been taken away.
Mr. Scott said “Be cheaper! Come whatever may!”
“But lead paint hurts Children!”
The CPSC said
“The toxins it has
Make kids sick in the head!”
Wal-Mart didn’t care, it kept working away,
To cut costs (and cut corners!) in every possible way.
No customers came, no one said hello.
And the wage Wal-Mart paid? Not worth standing in snow.
Employees got sick, they were too poor to pay.
“Keep working!” Wal-Mart said. “You’ll get insurance some day!”
The town was all quiet, most businesses had shut down.
What once had been festive was now a ghost town.
An elderly worker stood by Wal-Mart’s front door
He was still here at midnight and he wondered “what for?”
With no toys, low wages, and a stingy health plan,
Wal-Mart’s Christmas present? Good will towards no man (woman or child).
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