MetaFilter posts tagged with walmart and retail

Game Over?

F Mackenzie — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:38:49 -0800

Game over for Toys "R" Us? A sale of their global toy business is being considered. FAO Schwarz and KB Toys have declared bankruptcy in the past year as discounters such as Wal-Mart have put the toy industry in turmoil. [full NY Times article; req.req]

All I Can See Is A Parking Lot

benjh — Sat, 21 Feb 2004 14:52:31 -0800

Big Box Juggernauts are taking control of the landscape across North America. How does it impact how we live, and where we live? [Flash]

WalmartFilter

alms — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:31:41 -0800

WalmartFilter: "Wal-Mart controls a large and rapidly increasing share of the business done by most every major U.S. consumer-products company: 28% of Dial total sales, 24% of Del Monte Foods, 23% of Clorox, 23% of Revlon... Wal-Mart plans to open 1,000 more supercenters in the U.S. alone over the next five years.. giving it control over 35% of U.S. food sales and 25% of drugstore sales...The $12 billion worth of Chinese goods Wal-Mart bought in 2002 represented 10% of all U.S. imports from China." Setting aside questions of monopoly, isn't this a potentially dangerous monoculture?

owillis — Mon, 14 Oct 2002 17:00:48 -0800

A New Milestone for Video Games? "Three of the nation's top retailers, including Wal Mart, on Monday said they had refused to carry a new video game billed as the first major release to feature full-action nudity and with prostitutes and pimps as major characters." I enjoyed their "banned ads" myself.