Gafly of the San Fernando Valley
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sep 7, 2008 1:34 a.m.
Paola Marquez from a few years back(2002-2004) quit in 2005/2006. Her boyfriend Alex Rodriguez quit and his brother Danny Rodriguez was accused of stealing from the resgister by Danny Mora,Fidel Jacobo,and Jesse Carillo.
Give this information to Enrique Velarde, Esperanza Lopez, and Chris Sandoval.
Ask them about the turnover at their club. Many from San Fernando and Sylmar High have quit and managers will be creative in their explanation.
If you work for them read their stuff on the wire and you have to ask Mina for a password. Be aware of their rules and guidelines and how they are implemented. Read PD-57 and read the part were they discourage and do not allow any witness in favor of the associate.
Sam’s Club 6625
12920 Foothill Blvd
San Fernando CA 91340
Phone:365-7710
from secret shoppers and ex-employees
Google: Sam’s Club 6625+Management and Sam’s Club 6625+PD-57
http://samsclub6625.blog.com/
LEGAL INFORMATION
Despite Wal-Mart de Mexico’s net earnings around $1.1 billion in 2006, it continues its use of unpaid volunteer grocery baggers. Wal-Mart insists the teens are "volunteering" and can collect tips from customers but Labor Undersecretary Patricia Espinosa Torres retorts the practice is "regrettable, if not downright exploitative." In February 2005, Wal-Mart agreed to pay the U.S. Labor Department $135,540 in civil money penalties to settle charges of 24 child-labor violations. [Newsweek, 7/31/07]
MEXICO’S SUPREME COURT SLAMS WAL-MART FOR PAYING EMPLOYEES IN STORE VOUCHERS
Mexico’s Supreme Court slams Walmart’s labor practices [AFP]
Mexico’s Supreme Court compared the practices of US retail giant Walmart in Mexico to employer-worker relations during the dictatorship of former president Porfirio Diaz. Diaz served as president and absolute ruler of Mexico from 1877-80 and from 1884-1911. Mexico’s top court on Thursday backed a Walmart employee who had complained that vouchers handed out by the company as part of its salary payments could only be spent in the company’s stores.
WAL-MART SELLING HIGH SCHOOL LOGO CLOTHING, DONATING ZERO DOLLARS TO THE SCHOOL
Is Wal-Mart undercutting local athletic programs? [KXLY-TV (Wash.)]
The Cheney Blackhawks are selling shirts out of their high school’s store. There’s another Cheney Blackhawks shirt out at the Airway Heights Wal-Mart. While both promote the Blackhawks only the proceeds from the shirt sold by the school goes back to the school.
COURT BLOCKS WAL-MART FROM ARGUING THAT DISABLED POLICE OFFICER SHOULDN’T RECEIVE BENEFITS
Court: Wal-Mart, Tyson Can’t File Briefs In Injured Officer’s Case [NW Arkansas Morning News]
The state Supreme Court on Thursday denied motions by Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Tyson Foods and three business organizations to file briefs in a former Pine Bluff police officer’s lawsuit seeking disability benefits.
NEW JERSEY ATTORNEY GENERAL CHASING WAL-MART AND TARGET FOR SELLING EXPIRED FORMULA
Milgram has "no tolerance" for Wal-Mart, Target [Legal Newsline]
New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram’s latest lawsuits target two retail giants, Target and Wal-Mart, alleging that they sold expired infant formula. Milgram announced Thursday that her office is claiming violations of prior agreements on the parts of the companies, as well as Drug Fair. Those companies had paid civil penalties to settle previous allegations.
WAL-MART CONTINUED SELLING UNSAFE BASSINETS AFTER IT CLAIMED IT WASN’T?
Risks remain with bassinets [Chicago Tribune]
Two bassinets bought at Wal-Mart online carried a note to customers that they were not among those recalled. Two others purchased at Burlington Coat Factory had stickers with new model numbers - ones that weren’t part of the recall - covering older model numbers that were recalled. In response, Wal-Mart officials moved to block sales on all Simplicity bassinets, at stores and online.
SMART MOVE: WAL-MART OWNS THE DOMAIN NAME ’WALMARTSUCKS.COM’
How to Handle ’IHateYourCompany.com’ [Wall Street Journal]
Of the companies surveyed, 35% own the domain name for their brand followed by the word "sucks." They include Wal-Mart Stores, Coca-Cola, Toys"R"Us, Target and Whole Foods Market, according to FairWinds. Some 45% of these domains have yet to be registered by anyone. (FairWinds based its analysis on 1,058 domain names for companies on the Global 500 and Fortune 500 lists.)
TURNING THE WORD WAL-MART FROM A STORE INTO A BRAND
Wal-Mart Pursues Brand Identity [NW Arkansas Morning News]
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is making the move from being a store that sells brands to becoming one, and Chief Marketing Officer Stephen Quinn advised suppliers to help the retailer build on its newfound identity.
ASHLEY FURNITURE DETHRONES WAL-MART AS NO. 1 U.S. FURNITURE RETAILER
Ashley overtakes Wal-Mart as No. 1 retailer [Arcardian News-Leader (Wisc.)]
With 2007 sales reaching an impressive $2.38 billion, Ashley Furniture HomeStores has dethroned Wal-Mart as the number one retailer of furniture and bedding in the United States, according to a Furniture/Today Top 25 ranking released last week. Ashley’s sales increased in 2007 by 21.7 percent, while Wal-Mart only saw a gain of 6.3 percent.
WAL-MART AND PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS
Opinion: Wal-Mart Thrives When Democrats Are in Charge [Wall Street Journal]
Wal-Mart may have its political reasons to vote Republican, but if economics are the criteria, Wal-Mart should be rooting for a Democratic administration. Instead, the company whose television ads encourage you to save money and live better is ignoring the economic facts and backing Republican economic policies that have resulted in families losing money and living worse.
MORE ON WAL-MART’S NEW ’SMART’ TV NETWORK
Wal-Mart to deploy ’smart’ TV network [Financial Times]
Wal-Mart has become the first US retailer to begin rolling out a new generation of in-store digital media technology that is going to become increasingly familiar to shoppers globally. The biggest US retailer is starting to install a "smart network" that will replace traditional in-store televisions with screens that can be individually programmed depending on their location in the store.
Wal-Mart to begin rolling out in-store network [DMNews]
Wal-Mart will begin rolling out an in-store digital network later this month to 2,700 stores. The retailer anticipates that the chain-wide deployment of 27,000 screens and its new Wal-Mart Smart Network will be completed by early 2010.
BHARTI LIKELY TO BUY ’FOODLAND FRESH’ CHAIN
Bharti said to be buying Foodland Fresh outlets [DNA India]
Foodland Fresh, the retail business of Radhakrishna Hospitality (RKHS), is likely to be acquired by Bharti Retail Ltd.Sources familiar with the situation said Foodland Fresh outlets will be renamed Easy Day within the next three months - the brand name for Bharti Retail’s neighbourhood stores, the first of which was launched in Ludhiana in April.
ANOTHER LOOK AT RFID
RFID: hype or reality? [Express Computer (India)]
Wal-Mart revolutionized the US retail industry by mandating the use of RFID. Now, that the company is all set to foray in the Indian market, the dynamics of Indian Retail are also poised to change.
WAL-MART AMONG THE COMPANIES BANNING THE USE OF CLONED ANIMALS IN FOOD PRODUCTS, BUT NOT THEIR OFFSPRING
Food Companies Pledge Not to Use Clones [Wall Street Journal]
Other companies, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Tyson Foods Inc., have also banned the use of cloned animals in food products. Many haven’t made a similar pledge to avoid using food from the conventionally bred offspring of clones, however, partly because no one is tracking the offspring.
MORE SALES ANALYSIS
Wal-Mart acting on shifts in consumer spending [Associated Press via BusinessWeek]
Fuel prices remain high, inflation has hit food prices hard and consumer confidence is down. Yet Wal-Mart Stores Inc. executives said Thursday that the key for retailers is to look beyond the frustration to how families can have a good time even though their money isn’t going as far.
Wal-Mart Sales Climb on Back-to-School Discounts [Bloomberg News]
Industry sales at stores open at least a year climbed 1.7 percent, the smallest monthly gain since March’s 0.5 percent decline, the International Council of Shopping Centers said today. Same-store sales at Gap Inc., Target Corp. and Abercrombie & Fitch Co. fell.
Bargain hunters boost Wal-Mart [Arkansas Democrat-Gazette]
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. ’s August sales exceeded Wall Street expectations and beat much of the retail sector in August as shoppers pressured by high gasoline and food prices continued to look for bargains.
Wal-Mart’s Comps Top Estimates [The Street]
Wal-Mart was a bright spot, saying its August same-store sales rose 3%, excluding fuel sales, and nearly doubling what analysts were expecting. Including fuel, the retailer’s same-store sales were up 3.5%.
Wal-Mart doesn’t need stimulus to shine [MarketWatch]
Tne glimmer of gloom for the retail giant looks to be in its international business. Companies of all stripes have been able to lean on overseas growth as operations flagged domestically. Wal-Mart saw strength in areas such as Brazil, but other regions were more tempered.
Wal-Mart: Always Low Prices, High Profits [Minyanville]
"The underlying business performance for Wal-Mart US continued to show strength and the improved relative performance has resulted in market share gains," Eduardo Castro-Wright, head of the company’s domestic operations, said in a prepared statement.
WAL-MART AND SUSTAINABILITY
Wal-Mart and a World of Good [Huffington Post]
Now Wal-Mart has an environmental footprint equal to small nations. Wishing Wal-Mart would disappear won’t make it so, and probably wouldn’t change the simple fact that one out of three Americans -- roughly 100 million people (ten times the population of Sweden!) -- visit Wal-Mart each week to find everything from apples to vitamins.
ANOTHER DANGEROUS PHARMACY MIX-UP IN THE NEWS FOR WAL-MART
Disabled man’s fury at pharmacy mix-up [Harrow Observer (U.K.)]
Andrew Coleman, 40, was forced to seek medical advice from a doctor after taking antibiotics, which he says should have been for his partner. It later emerged incorrect labels had been put on three prescriptions, including a box of temazepam, at the Asda pharmacy in Forty Lane, Wembley.
CANNABIS PLANT GROWS FROM ASDA HEALTH FOOD SEED MIX...
Girl, 3, grows ’cannabis’ from Asda health food [Liverpool Echo (U.K.)]
She planted some seeds from the packet of organic health food seed mix bought from Asda, in Huyton, in the garden of her family’s home in Aldwark Road, Dovecot. Two months later, Mr Williams noticed a pungent smell coming from his vegetable patch and was shocked to discover the seeds had blossomed into a full-grown cannabis plant.
To keep updated on Wal-Mart Site Fights across the country, visit the Battlemart blog at http://walmartwatch.com/battlemart/blog
ARIZONA SITE FIGHT: VICTORY IN AHWATUKEE
Wal-Mart market off table for Ahwatukee site [East Valley Tribune (Ariz.)]
A Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market planned for Chandler Boulevard and Desert Foothills Parkway in Ahwatukee Foothills is off the table for now. The Bentonville, Ark.-based retailer said it has no choice but to opt out of a lease with their co-developer BMB Marketplace LLC when that company filed for bankruptcy.
WASHINGTON SITE FIGHT: GREEN LIGHT IN YAKIMA?
Green Light Soon For New Wal-Mart Store [KAPP-TV (Wash.)]
Wal-Mart is very close to getting the green light for its newest Yakima store. The city says it’s about a week away from issuing a building permit. It’s a store that won’t look like its other Yakima store. Leaders showed off the store’s designs.
NORTH CAROLINA SITE FIGHT: VOTE TABLED IN CHEROKEE
Cherokee Wal-Mart vote tabled [Asheville Citizen-Times (N.C.)]
Council members had questions about the agreement with the company that will have to be discussed in a closed session because of a confidentially clause in the lease agreement.
For more news on Wal-Mart as well as commentary, opinions and multimedia, visit our blog at http://walmartwatch.com/blog
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