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Article: This Labor Day, mulling over Wal-Mart.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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Byline: The Monitor's View
Union-backed critics of Wal-Mart are in full throttle to push politicians into echoing their complaints about the retail chain as they stump this fall. What's missing in this organized campaign are tales of how communities have met the Wal-Mart challenge.
Much of this political effort to change the world's largest retailer would be better spent in spreading the lessons of communities and local merchants that have found ways to survive, even thrive, with the big-box discount chains.
Their stories are helpful ones of learning how to adust to the forces of market globalization that Wal-Mart symbolizes with its ...