Clean-Up on Aisle Five
A family-sized Wal-Mart round-up from all corners of the intertubes.
By Wells Dunbar, 9:38AM, Wed. Jan. 31, 2007
With the big Responsible Growth for Northcross meeting tonight promising some big news, (did somebody say boycott?) we thought we'd hit with you a big-time collection of Wal-Mart ephemerata from Teh Intertubes.
• Wal-Mart selling gay Hentai porn: from the fine folks at The Consumerist, who previously revealed Wally-World was slangin' t-shirts with the Death's Head skull of the Nazi SS emblazoned on them.
• Two fake Wal-Mart blogs busted: This is a little older, describing how to pro-Wal-Mart astroturfers were uprooted.
• Lawmakers offer bill banning Wal-Mart bank: Bipartisan bill to prevent the mega-retailer from dominating another market.
• One of year's biggest PR blunders: Sending "Candidate Wal-Mart" on the campaign trail.
• A picture's worth a thousand words: they're all "ewww!" Check out the Flickr photo-stream from Filthy Wal-Mart.
RG4N meeting tonight, Jan. 31, 2007, at 7pm in
Wozniak Hall at St. Louis Catholic Church at 7601 Burnet Road.
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