Promises, promises…

This New York Times article says that retailers like H&M and Walmart haven’t lived up to their promises to treat fairly workers overseas. Several reports from the Asia Floor Wage Alliance says the retailers are falling far, far short. Check out this latest report. Puts a whole new meaning to the phrase “clean clothes,” yes?

Check out what Trinity Church is doing

Trinity Church will focus on Cabela’s and their sale of high-capacity weapons. Trinity Church already pursued behemoth Walmart, which eventually won in court. Trinity Church is a shareholder in both retail organizations, and recently filed a resolution on gun sales, to be considered at Cabela’s next year’s shareholder meeting.

Guess who went for Walmart greeter-training today at 11?

This guy. Atta boy, Sal!

Guns don’t kill people. Toddlers with guns do.

People are getting shot by toddlers on a weekly basis, according to Christopher Ingraham at the Washington Post. A toddler shoots his mother at a Walmart, which only recently stopped selling certain kinds of military-type weaponry. A toddler shoots his grandmother in a car. A toddler shoots himself, in the leg, after he finds a gun …

Don’t sign it, Asa

The Arkansas legislature has passed to Gov. Asa Hutchinson a “religious freedom” law similar to the one that has caused the uproar in Indiana and elsewhere. Gov. Hutchinson is a 1972 graduate of Bob Jones University, the ultra-conservative institution of higher learning whose policies (and graduates) would be funny if they weren’t so very sad. …

Walmart’s march to the sea

Watch how Walmart takes over the country, right here.

Yep. And again I say: Yep.

Thanks, Ebony, for letting me steal this from you on Facebook.

It’s getting ugly out there

A woman used pepper spray on another Black Friday shoppers at a crowded Los Angeles Walmart on Thursday. And thanks, Cynical, for the link. Meanwhile, Sharon sends this, a funny-as-all-get-out series of Amazon reviews of pepper spray. Get yours today! (See: “Accept no substitute when casually repressing students.”) By all means, enjoy this meditation on …