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Wal-Mart is about to change one of the most familiar logos in corporate America.

Part of Wal-Mart’s continuing effort to update its image, the new logo for signs and building facades includes white letters on a burnt-orange background followed by a white starburst, according to an artist’s rendering that the company filed recently with planning officials in Memphis, Tenn.

Apparently, their new logo is an attempt to be more honest and forth-coming with their customers about their obscenely long lines at the registers.

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Seriously, it doesn’t matter if you visit Wal-Mart at 2pm or 2am, you’re pretty much guaranteed at least a 20 minute wait at the cash registers.

Tina and I stopped at Wal-Mart Friday night to buy breakfast sausage. We had already bought the rest of the groceries we wanted at Publix in Tradition (where there was no lines, by the way). But, Wal-Mart sells a certain type of breakfast sausage we really like and can’t (unfortunately) find anywhere else.

So, we pull into the Wal-Mart parking lot and wade through the Sea of Gray Carts in an attempt to find somewhere to park.

We go into the store, proceed directly to frozen breakfast foods, grab two bags of the sausages (so we wouldn’t have to come back for a while) and go directly to the cash registers. Of the 30 cash registers, numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 are closed. The lines for the few open registers are enormous. The shortest line was 6 carts deep.

So, we chose register 1. The Speedy Checkout line. We were the 9th person in line. So, I’m sure you can imagine our checkout was anything but speedy.

God, forgive me, but I hate Wal-Mart.

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Fortune came out with their annual list of America’s largest corporations. Of course, Wal-Mart is number one for 2007. No surprise there.

On total sales of $378.8 Billion, Wal-Mart made a profit of $12.7 Billion. That’s a 3.4% profit. 

• There’s 6.6 Billion people on earth. That means each person on earth spent just over $57 at Wal-Mart last year.
• The average Wal-Mart cashier made $8.88/hr in 2007.
• Lee Scott, Wal-Mart’s CEO, made $29.7 Million dollars last year. It would take the average Wal-Mart cashier 1,607 years, working 40 hours a week, to make that much.
• Bananas is Wal-Mart’s most popular item. Yes, bananas.
• Wal-Mart imported $30 Billion of stuff from China last year. Most likely, almost all of it containing too much lead.

Target made $2.8 Billion on sales of $63.3 Billion. They made a 4.4% profit.

Sears (who owns K-Mart) made just $826 Million on sales of $50.7 Billion. That’s no surprise. Have you ever been inside a Sears Essentials? What a dump. They made a 1.6% profit.

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Hell-Mart Admits: We probably shouldn’t have sued brain damaged woman. It resulted in too much bad press.

As a follow-up to a previous entry in my blog which itself was a follow up an even more previous entry, Hell-Mart has decided that a brain-damaged woman they successfully sued for $470,000 doesn’t have to pay up.

According to an article on CNN, Hell-Mart was besieged with bad press, thousands of angry blog responses and at least two online petitions to boycott the company in response to intentions to pursue collection of the judgement.

Hell-Mart apologized for the additional stress they placed on the family. Because, you know, having your wife become severely brain-damaged and your son killed at war isn’t enough. You also need the world’s biggest and most evil retailer suing you for half a million dollars in order to suffer a complete nervous break-down.

Hell-Mart said in a letter that they’re going to modify their health care plan to allow more discretion in individual cases. If I’m any judge of character, they’ll probably use the same discretion that was used in the infamous Ford Pinto Memo.

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Back in January, I posted a link to a story about a former Hell-Mart employee who was left brain damaged from a car accident. Her medical expenses were paid for by the Hell-Mart health plan. Then, she won money in an injury lawsuit against the trucking company that hit her and received about $417,000 that she could use for future medical expenses. Hell-Mart’s greedy lawyers went sniffing for the cash and sued this woman for $470,000 saying that since she was awarded money in a lawsuit, Hell-Mart shouldn’t have to pay her medical expenses. Sadly, the courts recently ruled in favor of Hell-Mart. And now, the family of the brain damaged woman has to repay Hell-Mart almost half a million dollars.

Kinda makes you wonder if the judge wasn’t the brain damaged one in this case, eh? Hell-Mart has $470,000 of this woman’s money. I’ll be damned if they’re getting any more of mine. I’m going to have to find a way to make repentance for my recent trip there.

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