Working retail, and specifically working the return desk, gives me a lot of insight into the quality control standards companies have for their products. Usually, if there is a problem, it’s isolated and really no big deal because it is a fluke. However a company sometimes completely fucks up their quality control standards, [...]
We’ve all seen the Lifelock commercials featuring CEO Todd Davis and his social security number. He claims that his company will protect you from identity theft and also remove you from junk mail lists. And if someone were to happen to still steal your identity, they have a $1,000,000 guarantee. It’s “so good” [...]
In the wake of Wal-Mart’s recent labor issues in Minnesota, I am wondering how this is going to play out. Basically, Petters Group Worldwide (who owns Polaroid and a large part of Sun Country Airlines) acquired Metropolitan Media Group. About 50 workers were laid off, and at the same time they were told [...]
I was astounded today to read in the Star Tribune that one of their columnists, Katherine Kersten, has basically given Wal-Mart some free advertising. The court system has well established that Wal-Mart needs significant improvement in their labor and ethics practices. However Kersten is trying to “remind” us why the company is really [...]
It never fails to amaze me how people continue to flock in groves to Wal-Mart, despite several notable workers-rights violations against the company and for it’s aggressive strategy to convince product manufacturers to outsource their manufacturing just so Wal-Mart can sell it at a low price. Countless communities invite them into their town actually [...]