“Wal-Mart” on The Daily Caller

Thanksgiving is a time for reflecting on what each of us is thankful for in our lives. Judging by the following videos, it appears Black Friday is a time for deflecting blows while making a mad rush for limited supply discounts. (more)

Part of the charm and appeal of Walmart is the seeming ability of shoppers to find anything they could possibly need inside one of its 4,300 stores across the country. What you can also find in each of those stores is an employee who’s part of a massive class action lawsuit claiming the retail giant discriminates against women by withholding promotions and pay raises. (more)

Love it or hate it, there’s no doubt that Wal-Mart is a powerful force. Although some people think the retail behemoth is a force of evil: it pushes out mom-and-pop businesses, has been accused of wage law violations, inadequate health care, exploitating workers, and having an anti-union stance. (more)

For years, Wal-Mart has used its clout as the nation’s largest retailer to squeeze competitors with rock-bottom prices in its stores. Now it is trying to throw a holiday knockout punch online. (more)

“Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.” (more)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Teen idol Justin Bieber is launching a line of nail polish inspired by his biggest music hits, nail care company OPI said on Monday. (more)

Quietly and cautiously, the lobbying world on K St. is preparing for major GOP gains on Nov. 2, eying new GOP “talent” and preparing to donate a larger percentage to Republicans. (more)

Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, has asked the US supreme court to halt a class-action lawsuit, which alleges the company systematically discriminated against female workers. (more)

There are a few, but many of the world’s top companies in 1985 have foundered, shrunk, grown obsolete, or been acquired by rivals that grew stronger. General Motors and Ford, the world’s two biggest carmakers in 1985, spent the last decade in a dizzying tailspin, bleeding cash, losing market share, and struggling to turn themselves around. Venerable industrial firms like ITT restructured and drifted down the Fortune 500, while Wal-Mart, Verizon, banks, and technology firms displaced them. Digital Equipment and Wang Laboratories, once leading computer firms, disappeared completely. Even resurgent titans like Apple and IBM stared into the abyss of irrelevance and made painful changes before clawing their way back to the top. (more)

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to roll out sophisticated electronic ID tags to track individual pairs of jeans and underwear, the first step in a system that advocates say better controls inventory but some critics say raises privacy concerns. (more)

The federal government, whose vast regulatory powers have led some businesses to complain they cannot fight back, has apparently met its match. (more)

RICHMOND — For months, aides to Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell have been meeting behind closed doors with alcohol retailers and wholesalers, public safety officials and faith-based groups to come up with a way to fulfill one of the governor’s most notable campaign promises: privatizing the state’s liquor stores. (more)

Nearly everybody now thinks Obama is giving the impression that he hates business — There are no independent voters anymore, just Dems, Republicans, and people who hate Dems more than they hate Republicans — Cable news update: Lotsa car-washing, grumbling, job-hunting — Al Qaeda goes after those harmless ‘Wegians — Following the Blago trial is giving White House officials heartburn –Will a child disarm North Korea? (Figuratively, perhaps?) (more)

Wal-Mart Inc.’s Sam’s Club will begin offering loans of up to $25,000 to members in an effort to set itself apart from other warehouse chains and build goodwill to bring in more business. (more)

Fresh off a deal with the City of Chicago that will allow Wal-Mart Stores to open more than a dozen locations there, the mega-retailer is closing in on an agreement to open its first store in D.C. (more)

The so-called “Wal-Mart Moms” — a group of traditionally Democratic-leaning, Wal-Mart-shopping, childrearing female voters — may be shifting toward Republicans in 2010, a new study shows. (more)

On the eve of a key vote in the Senate on an issue in which Wal-Mart is deeply invested, the company announced it is donating $20 million to charities and opening scores of new stores in the Chicago area, in the home state of Sen. Dick Durbin, Illinois Democrat, the retail giant’s top ally in its push to cap credit card fees. (more)

You never heard of the world’s greatest—and most unlikely—environmentalist, Mike Duke. (more)

The inevitable pictures of pelicans covered in oil finally surfaced, solidifying this oil spill as the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. We have not seen this many pictures of unintelligent animals covered in oil since the first season of “Jersey Shore.” (more)

As Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has grown into the largest grocery seller in the U.S., similar battles have played out in hundreds of towns like Mundelein. Local activists and union groups have been the public face of much of the resistance. But in scores of cases, large supermarket chains including Supervalu Inc., Safeway Inc. and Ahold NV have retained Saint Consulting to block Wal-Mart, according to hundreds of pages of Saint documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and interviews with former employees. (more)