perhaps the most obnoxious BigCo/Big Retail? (other than Micro Soft?)

my big non-Public Policy recommendation: don't shop there. Buy your necessities elsewhere, and if paying more for those leaves no money for non-necessities, then so be it.

• note that I buy a fair amount of stuff at [KMart], so I'm slightly hypocritical about this maybe

http://www.walmartwatch.com/

Recipient of Corporate Welfare from local governments.

• Stephen Bainbridge on some details

Book Store!

• Text Book sales

• In mid-1990, the company acquired [Western Merchandise], Inc., of Amarillo, Texas, a supplier of music, books, and video products to many of the Wal-Mart stores.

• (1999): deal with [Books A Million] to handle E Commerce of books

• (2004): Wal-Mart can account for as much as 20% of sales of popular books. But Raab says that's truer for commercial fiction by well-known novelists such as Nicholas Sparks than for political titles.

• Jun'2007: dropping [MidList] to focus on [Best Seller]-s?

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