“Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price” is an engrossing, muckraking documentary about the retail giant that’s been called “the world’s largest, richest and probably meanest corporation.” But if you’re ...

An Oakland jury Thursday awarded $172 million to 116,000 current and former employees of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in the first of dozens of wage and hour class-action lawsuits targeting the giant retailer ...

No doubt Wal-Mart has contributed to low prices for consumers, as Sebastian Mallaby noted in his Nov. 28 column, "Progressive Wal-Mart. Really." But that is only part of the story. For all the ...

Robert Greenwald has a ready-made Internet audience waiting for "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price," a scathing study of the retail behemoth. But considering the size of the Wal-Mart consumer base ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. If Wal-Mart were committed to the welfare of its more than 1.3 million “associates,” ...

Representatives Waxman and Cummings say the documents appear to contradict Walmart’s story about the widening scandal. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. For pure, unbridled Wal-Mart bashing, this compilation (PDF) of figures, studies, and ...

EARLIER THIS YEAR, an unusual series of Wal-Mart ads began ricocheting through cyberspace. In one, a “Wal-Mart associate” named Betty Johnson chirps, “I love working at Wal-Mart, even though they pay ...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc intends to expand its store space by 8% in the fiscal year starting in February 2005. This includes three new food distribution centers Wal-Mart Stores Inc intends to expand its ...

If Wal-Mart gives workers a bad deal, then why did 11,000 people recently apply to work at a new store in Oakland? That's a question that people who today pass for socially conscious have a hard time ...

Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, has begun reaching out to its many critics. In the weeks since the giant discount store won praise for its relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina, Wal-Mart has ...

When an ambitious person looks to set a goal for themselves they tend to say the sky is the limit. Wal-Mart revisits accepted wisdom and thinks in terms of universes and galaxies. For Wal-Mart even ...