Even wanted to know what it is like to live near a new Walmart store as it's being developed? Well today is your lucky day! This blog, ENDURING THE NEW HURRICANE WALMART: A Daily Diary Of What It's Like To Have A Massive Supercenter Built In A Formerly Quiet Neighborhood, from a local West Virginia news site is an ongoing first hand account of just that.

Here's just a sample of what you would be in for if Walmart decided to move in to your backyard:

This piece originally appeared at The Huffington Post:

More bad headlines for Wal-Mart, the sexist employer. The company was nailed again by its own employees--this time in Kentucky.

I just read this post, Walmart to Chileans - "We Can Only Spare A Dime" from John Perkins, author of Hoodwinked over at the The Huffington Post and thought it was interesting, and poignant, enough to share here. Check it out:

Check out this piece from the Oakland Tribune on our kickoff event for our week of action:

Walmart started as a small five and dime store, but recently their model has been to open gigantic Super Centers often taking up acres of land with their store and massive parking lots. They typically sit on the edge of towns in suburban areas and bill themselves as a one stop shopping option.

WakeUpWalmart.com and a coalition of supporters today launched a national week of action agai

Check out our latest piece over on Huffington Post. It highlights the story of Patricia from Ohio, a Walmart worker who was faced with the choice of going to work sick or losing her job because of Walmart's irresponsible and harmful sick day policy.

Wal-Mart has 44 properties for sale in Wisconsin, including 9 buildings that are sitting empty. Of these 9 properties, 3 are over 100,000 s.f. The dead store in Sheboygan, Wisconsin is not even listed by Wal-Mart Realty. The company is trying to sell the one lot remaining at its new Superstore site on Vanguard Avenue in Sheboygan just a few miles away from its ‘old’ store---but it is the dead store Wal-Mart left behind that now has city officials worried.

The Shaw’s supermarket on Whalley Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut is closing down. It’s one of 18 stores that are being sold off by Shaw’s owner, SuperValu.

The Shaw’s supermarket on Whalley Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut is closing down. It’s one of 18 stores that are being sold off by Shaw’s owner, SuperValu.

Walmart just announced, with much patting of their own back, that more of their employees are enrolled in their company health insurance this year. The total number of their own workers enrolled in their insurance? It is up to 54% from 52% last year. The industry standard, by the way, is 65% and many big retailers insure a much larger percentage of their workforce. Costco, for example insures 85% of its workers.