That Changing Market

From the Star-Telegram:

Welcome to Wal-Mart, comrade.

Surely there’ll be a price revolution in China with the discount giant opening a Communist Party branch in Shenyang…

But why should opportunist politicians and opponents of big-box blight be the only ones caterwauling about Wal-Mart?

The retailer’s decision to join the corporate advisory council of the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce set off an anti-homosexual group called Americans for Truth, which said the company is “passing the wrong kind of ‘values’ on to its customers” and is “hell-bent on alienating its heretofore greatest and most vocal supporters: Conservatives, Christians, and Traditionalists.”

Just wondering when the greeters offering shopping carts started checking religious affiliations at the door…

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