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Steve K. on 2004/04/14:
„RCA is coming out with a new $79 DVD player that will be available soon at Wal-Mart and Kmart stores nationwide. (Walmart.com already has it listed at $69.84.) The real excitement over this new product is because it uses ClearPlay's filtering technology to give the user the power to "automatically skip sexual content, graphically violent scenes and language deemed offensive."“
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„How profitable is anybody's guess, but we don't expect to see Jaws, Schindler's List, or Close Encounters of the Third Kind on disc anytime soon, even though Spielberg started releasing films from his Amblin production company on DVD last year (such as The Mask of Zorro). As for why Pulp Fiction and other titles lack special-edition content, it again comes down to profitability (extras cost money, after all), in addition to the desire of some studios to get discs on the market as fast as possible. Again, this trend is starting to change, and special-edition holdouts Disney, Fox, and Paramount are now releasing some feature-packed discs -- although not nearly as fast or as often as DVD stalwarts Warner and MGM.“http://www.dvdjournal.com/previousnews/1999/ news199903.html - Cached - Similar Pages
„I hope that number gets around because it sums up Wal-Mart values -- the country we will be if we succumb to a bushy faith in the market as the measure of all things. Pure capitalism values nothing but success. If decent treatment of workers is not something we're supposed to talk about, for fear of disturbing the divine workings of the market, then we are going to end up with people scrubbing floors for $2 a day, and no one has any cause for complaint.“http://bodyandsoul.typepad.com/blog/2003/10/ walmarts_agenda.html - Cached - Similar Pages
Found at a page of Jeanne, posted on 2003/10/24
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„Of course, U.S. companies have been moving jobs offshore for decades, long before Wal-Mart was a retailing power. But there is no question that the chain is helping accelerate the loss of American jobs to low-wage countries such as China. Wal-Mart, which in the late 1980s and early 1990s trumpeted its claim to "Buy American," has doubled its imports from China in the past five years alone, buying some $12 billion in merchandise in 2002.“http://www.pandagon.net/mtarchives/000883.html - Cached - Similar Pages
Found at a page of Ezra Klein, posted on 2004/02/02
„Well, I guess they are looking to close down the local Super KMart . Too bad. They've just never been able to compete after Super Wal-Mart moved in across the street.“http://www.greeblie.com/arch/008779.html - Cached - Similar Pages
Found at a page of Dave, posted on 2003/01/14
„Public outrage could reach a point where shoppers turn away from Wal-Mart and give their business to retailers viewed as more employee -- and consumer -- friendly. Wal-Mart is in danger of becoming corporate America's Darth Vader, master of an all-but-impregnable Death Star to execute its strategies while ignoring the forces massing against it. Shoppers openly declare how much they hate Wal-Mart, but say they must shop there because it stretches their budgets.“http://hnn.us/articles/1845.html - Cached - Similar Pages
„What differentiates Wal-Mart from similar retail chains like Kmart, Target, and Sears? I doubt that Wal-Mart disproportionately takes advantage of eminent domain, corporate subsidies or federally-funded highways compared to these other stores. Further, I’ve seen little evidence that Wal-Mart pays significantly worse wages or benefits to its workers relative to similar jobs in other retail chain stores.“http://www.catallarchy.net/blog/cgi-bin/archives/ 012371.html - Cached - Similar Pages
Found at a page of Micha Ghertner, posted on 2004/05/06
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