Stay Tuned to WakeUpWalMart for Big Annoucement

From WakeUpWalmart:
We are going to have a big announcement the last week of July which will involve every single one of you. So stay tuned, get excited and continue to build the movement to change Wal-Mart by clicking here to recruit your friends.

In the mean time, I wanted to take a moment and update you on 3 breaking news stories in our campaign to change Wal-Mart into a responsible, moral corporation.

1) Wal-Mart’s response to our crime report
As reported by the New York Times, Wal-Mart has significantly changed its shoplifting policy and abandoned one of Sam Walton’s principles for success. Sam Walton considered shoplifting “one of the biggest enemies of profitability” and even linked employee’s bonuses to reducing the amount of shrinkage in each store. Not surprisingly, Sam Walton insisted that Wal-Mart adopt a zero-tolerance policy for shoplifters.

But, now, under new leadership, Wal-Mart has decided to not stop shoplifters for items under $25. We believe Wal-Mart’s changes are a direct response to our crime report published in May which showed a high number of police calls being generated from Wal-Mart stores. In addition, we believe Wal-Mart’s change in policy is consistent with the company’s efforts to drastically reduce labor costs by cutting workers.

Please click here to read the New York Times article.

2) Wal-Mart - still charging the wrong price?
Last week, the Attorney General in Arizona filed a lawsuit against Wal-Mart for failing to address scanner error problems which resulted in consumers being charged the wrong price. As you may recall, the investigation in Arizona produced similar results to our own studies conducted by the University of Illinois and the University of California Berkeley. Those studies, done in 4 states, showed Wal-Mart failed to meet the federal standard for charging customers the right price.

Please click here to read the Arizona Republic article.

3) Stop the Wal-Mart bank
Recently, two leading members of the U.S. House (one Democrat and one Republican), introduced a bi-partisan bill to close the loophole which Wal-Mart is trying to use to obtain a bank. In addition, the Federal Reserve testified before Congress in support of closing the loophole. As you know, the bank of Wal-Mart would be a dangerous concentration of capital in the hands of any one single corporation and would be detrimental to consumers, small businesses and community banks.

Please click here to read the article on the Fed’s testimony and here to read the article on the new legislation.

As you can see, our campaign to change Wal-Mart is in full gear and gaining tremendous momentum. Now think about this, if we can do all of this with 245,500 supporters, imagine what we can do with 1 million supporters. In the next few weeks, help us continue to build our movement by sign up five more friends, neighbors, co-workers and family.

Together, we will change Wal-Mart and change America for the better. Thank you for all that you do,

Jeremy Bird
WakeUpWalMart.com