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		Fact Sheets Want to know more about the major issues surrounding Wal-Mart? Download our fact sheets.
		Press Releases Read more about how we believe Wal-Mart can improve its business practices at our press release archive.
		Research Center For in-depth analysis and scholarly reports on Wal-Mart's influence on society, visit our research center.
		Wal-Mart Watch Blog For our reactions to and commentary on the latest Wal-Mart news, visit our blog.

Wal-Mart in the News

For a full list of past stories, please visit our clips archive.

• Wal-Mart's Midlife Crisis [BusinessWeek, 4/30/07]
  For nearly five decades, Wal-Mart's signature "everyday low prices" and their enabler—low costs—defined not only its business model but also the distinctive personality of this proud, insular company that emerged from the Ozarks backwoods to dominate retailing. Over the past year and a half, though, Wal-Mart's growth formula has stopped working.
  
• Selling Wal-Mart [New Yorker, 4/02/07]
  Wal-Mart has hired Democratic P.R. experts to help improve its reputation on such issues as low wages, miserly benefits, sex discrimination, and union busting.
  
• Ad Agency: Wal-Mart Lacking Respect [Associated Press via New York Times, 5/30/07]
  An advertising agency fighting to keep Wal-Mart’s business last year told the world’s largest retailer that while it was a "positive force" because low prices helped shoppers lead better lives, the company suffered a lack of respect that could drive away shoppers.
  
• Inside Wal-Mart's 'Threat Research' Operation [Wall Street Journal]
  The Wal-Mart Stores Inc. worker fired last month for intercepting a reporter's phone calls says he was part of a larger, sophisticated surveillance operation that included snooping not only on employees, but also on critics, stockholders and the consulting firm McKinsey & Co.
  
• The Unending Woes of Lee Scott [Fortune, 1/09/07]
  The world's biggest retailer had a lousy 2006. There were personnel problems...There were legal troubles...Then there were the public relations fiascoes.
  
  Bad years do happen to good companies. But for Wal-Mart, 2006 was just another downer in a period of decline that's lasted seven years and overlaps the tenure of the company's current CEO, Lee Scott.