City to Wal-Mart: Drop Dead

The New York Times reports that Wal-Mart‘s (WMT) CEO Lee Scott told the paper that expanding into the Big Apple isn’t “worth the effort.” He referred to all of New York, but a company spokesperson said that he only meant Manhattan.
In other Wal-Mart/New York relations, Jeffrey Goldberg reveals in the New Yorker how Wal-Mart uses facts and evidence to “spin” public relations in ways that could be considered financially advantageous.

Posted by on March 28th, 2007 at 11:24 am


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