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Wal-Mart is way liberal. Charles Fishman at Fastcompany.com: “In the next 12 months, starting with a major push this month, Wal-Mart wants to sell every one of its regular customers–100 million in all–one swirl bulb [compact fluorescent light, or CFL]. In the process, Wal-Mart wants to change energy consumption in the United States, and energy consciousness, too. . . . It’s a bold goal, a remarkable declaration of Wal-Mart’s intention to modernize and green up a whole line of business using market oomph. Teaming up with General Electric, which owns about 60 percent of the residential lightbulb market in the United States, Wal-Mart wants to single-handedly double U.S. sales for CFLs in a year, and it wants demand to surge forward after that.”
I said, Wal-Mart is way liberal. Mya Frazier in Advertising Age, August 24: “In an unprecedented push, Wal-Mart Stores has hired a gay-marketing shop, joined the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce and begun discussions with activist groups about extending domestic-partnership benefits to its employees.”
Wal-Mart is way conservative. The company is well-known for its fanatical anti-union stance. Michael Barbaro and Stephanie Strom in the New York Times: “As Wal-Mart Stores struggles to rebut criticism from unions and Democratic leaders, the company has discovered a reliable ally: prominent conservative research groups like the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Manhattan Institute,” to which it’s given $2.5 million over six years.
