[durasell]

http://www.nwanews.com/story.php?paper=adg&section=Business&storyid=135149

[Barney59]

thanks for the link, I've heard about their WAR ROOM but it ain't workin'...

[mlc9852]

"To keep up with its critics, Wal-Mart “has to run a campaign,” said Robert McAdam, a former political strategist at the Tobacco Institute who now oversees Wal-Mart’s corporate communications. “It’s simply nonsense for us to let some of these attacks go without a response.”

The Republicans could learn a thing or two from Wal-Mart.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

The new war room, which is part of a larger Wal-Mart effort to portray itself as more workerfriendly and environmentally conscious, runs counter to the philosophy of the chain’s founder, Sam Walton. Believing that public relations was a waste of time and money, the penny-pinching Walton never hired a giant public relations firm like Edelman, Wal-Mart’s choice to staff its war room.

The War Room is a VERY BAD idea. Sam Walton's Wal-Mart had my support. The new War Room Wal-Mart is unrecognizable to me.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

The problem I think is that Wal-Mart execs bought into the wrong diagnosis. They didn't have loses because of a boycott by the left. More likely, it was because the left infiltrated their staff, and Wal-Mart helped them do it with pc policies. Then, these lefties set out to treat the customers badly. I had a Wal-Mart cashier quiz me about stuff -- seriously -- and I innocently mentioned a Christian college we had visited over the weekend. SHE WENT ON A VERBAL RAMPAGE AGAINST THE COLLEGE AND CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS. I was very mad, but I just took it.