Subject: Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

• Not Too Hot for Wal-Mart

  April 10, 2007

• Why Won't You Die, Gaucho?

  May 2, 2007

• Daily Briefs: Always Low Prices, Of Truth and Trucks

  April 10, 2008

• Daily Briefs: Economic Defibrillation, Hillary Clinton Feels Your SUV's Pain

  April 29, 2008

• Breakfast Buffet: Wednesday, 9/10

  September 10, 2008

• The Bad-For-You Black Licorice

  September 16, 2008

• Best Newspaper Insert

  October 19, 2000

• Tax receipts make fool of former TIF boss

  In the waning days of her reign, former Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Kay Barnes tried to defend the city's extensive use of tax-increment financing (TIF). A stinging city audit said the TIF program had produced $233 million less than original projections. The normally cool Barnes called the report "biased" and "outrageous" at a press conference.A criticism of TIF is that in many cases it simply slides development from one part of town to another. The tax-incentivized Wal-Mart on the site of the

  January 23, 2009

• Welcome to Kansas City! Now Go Away!

  March 6, 2003

• Breakfast Buffet: Friday, 6/05

  Wal-Mart announced it's hiring 22,000 new workers this year. Wait, because it's Wal-Mart does that mean the economy is getting better or worse? [KC Biz Journal]Thought this would be the other way around but no, the internet doesn't cause insomnia but can actually cure it. [Time]One of the reasons bluefin tuna is becoming so rare is because companies such as Mitsubishi (yes, that Mitsubishi) are hoarding the fish. [Independent]Is it possible for the entire speakeasy movement to suddenly become pa

  June 5, 2009

• Water Torture

  February 16, 2006

• Wal-Mart moving in for the kill

  Flickr: ArobotQuick. Name the largest store brand in the United States. It's not Kraft, Johnson & Johnson or any other giant product supplier. The answer is Great Value, Wal-Mart's store brand. And with Wal-Mart smelling blood among its giant retail rivals like Kraft and P&G, it's getting more aggressive with its brand.When I think of Great Value products, the cheap clear gallon tub of artificial vanilla ice cream comes to mind. And indeed, ice cream is one of the "750 everyday items" wh

  March 18, 2009

• Letters from the week of 12-21-2006

  December 21, 2006

• Letters from the week of February 22

  February 22, 2007

• Eastern European Christmas

  December 18, 2008

• Home Sweet Parking Lot

  When a workingman doesn’t have a home in Johnson County, a Wal-Mart parking lot is the next best thing.

  September 4, 2008

• Dear Fans: I suck. Sincerely, David Glass

  June 12, 2008

• Flowers are blooming, fountains are flowing and the Kansas City air is — sweet Jesus, what is that smell?

  April 10, 2008

• Columbia vs. Challenger

  January 31, 2008

• Shop Fair

  November 22, 2007

• Not Hiring

  August 16, 2007

• Action Movie

  August 2, 2007

• Cold Facts

  July 12, 2007

• One Wal-Mart Ain't Enough

  May 17, 2007

• Smiley Face, Sad Face

  February 8, 2007

• Always Low-Efficient

  January 25, 2007

• Life Without Wal-Mart

  Kansas City advertising genius Bob Bernstein helped make Wal-Mart what it is today. Then the world's largest retailer dumped him.

  December 7, 2006

• Counter Measures

  September 7, 2006

• Bully Pulpit

  Letters from the week of

  February 9, 2006

• Always Low, Always

  February 2, 2006

• Our top DVD picks for the week of November 15

  November 17, 2005

• Night & Day Events

  Week of November 10, 2005

  November 10, 2005

• David Is Goliath

  Wal-Mart's union killer faces baseball's heavy hitters.

  February 8, 2001

• Always Low Prices?

  Wal-Mart might save Blue Ridge Mall, but first it needs a little help from taxpayers.

  December 9, 2004

• The One That Got Away

  Independence gets a fake fishing hole, and Bannister Mall gets a big fish story.

  July 15, 2004

• This Weeks Day-By-Day Picks

  January 1, 2004

• Joey Who?

  A poster child gets discounted by Wal-Mart's favorite charity.

  April 3, 2003

• Mart Attack

  Wal-Mart's pharmacy pains a black customer.

  November 29, 2001

• Where the Heart Is

  May 4, 2000

• Joshua Scott Kielman really likes huffing at Wal-Mart

  Joshua Scott KielmanYeah, there's not much to do in Shawnee at 3:30 a.m. But huffing in Wal-Mart bathroom? Really low on the list. Not for Joshua Scott Kielman. KSHB Channel 41 says Shawnee Police arrested the 27-year-old for a third time for huffing at the Wal-Mart at 16100 W. 65th St. You got arrested three times for huffing at the same Wal-Mart within the last two months. Wow. That'll get you banned from Wal-Mart. Hey, if you can't huff at home in your garage like an adult ... ahem.

  May 12, 2009

• Cheapskate Night at the K

  May 28, 2009

• Erik Voeks On Needmore Discs' Closing

  We wrote yesterday about the impending closure of Needmore Discs, and how sad it was to see another local record store go. Erik Voeks was kind enough to give me a few more details on the specifics behind closing the store down: "The music retail business has been changing for years (obviously). With everybody moving to downloads it's become harder and harder for a small independent store like ours to survive...without resorting to carrying "smoking accessories" and black lights. We always wante

  July 2, 2009

• The city notifies Wal-Mart
  that one of its dead stores
  is a nuisance

  July 9, 2009

• Wal-Mart taking aim at the Girl Scout cookie market?

  ​The recent surge in generic brand sales naturally would lead to conflict with established, name brands -- but who knew the first shot would be fired on behalf of the Girl Scouts? C.V. Harquail, a former "Cookie Mom" and current blogger, was dismayed to see that Walmart was beta-testing mint-chocolate and peanut-butter-chocolate cookies at the recent BlogHer Conference in Chicago. She worried Walmart was going to enter into direct competition with the Girl Scouts, threatening the organization'

  August 6, 2009

• Angry Kansas City Wal-Mart customer makes threat, police surround the store

  ​Best to avoid the Wal-Mart at 8301 North Church near Highway 152 and Interstate 35. Depending on who you ask, there's either a) a standoff with a man with a gun or b) just police surrounding the store because a man threatened to shoot people at the store.  Just talked to Sgt. Stacey Graves and she says we should know more soon. Police have set up a command post at the Michael's store. Update (12:42 p.m. Monday, August 24): The official word from the KCPD is that a guy called the Wal-Mart

  August 24, 2009

• About that guy who threatened to shoot up the Northland Wal-Mart

  ​The story of the man who threatened to shoot up a Northland Wal-Mart went from scary to sad real fast. The guy's neighbor told KSHB Channel 41 that the 35-year-old man is harmless, depressed and coming to grips with having terminal cancer and only two months left to live. "He's not a threat to anybody," Kyle Barousse told 41. "He has no weapons. I've never seen him with a weapon, ever. And I've never seen him act violent towards anybody."Yesterday, the store at 8301 North Church was locked do

  August 25, 2009

• KISS and the Demise of the Small Town Record Store

  Last week, KISS announced that its new album, Sonic Boom, is to be sold exclusively at Wal-Mart. Is this further evidence of what the Chicago Tribune's Mark Caro referred to as "the death of the record store"? Caro also asked if a rock band selling an album exclusively at a big box store counted as a sell-out. ​I think it's a valid question. The Tribune's Greg Kott and compatriot critic Jim Derogatis on the Sun-Times have discussed this sort of thing time and time again on their program S

  August 25, 2009

• Wal-Mart can't contain Cameron man's obliques

  A new Web site, People of Walmart, documents the wonderful creatures who inhabit the world's largest retailer at any given moment.Today's featured shopper visited a Wal-Mart in Cameron, Missouri, on Wednesday. This cart-pushing adventurer is letting the world know that his scissors have found an awesome loophole in the "No shirt, no service" policy. People of Walmart​

  August 27, 2009

• The latest Pitch and 21 things we learned this week

  ​U.S. soldiers are committing suicide in record numbers, and the Army is struggling to fix the problem. This week's Pitch feature story, "Exit Strategy," looks at one solider who almost became a statistic. Also, Martin covers MoDOT's shoddy maintenance of inner-city bridges. Ferruzza reviews Café Trio. And Buckle Bunny talks tour managing. 1. Lynn Jenkins' "hope" for change is white. 2. Living next to a Rockhurst frat sucks. 3. Riverfront Heritage Trail is pretty cool. 4. 26 homicides in KCK.

  August 28, 2009