Wal-Mart

Girl Scouts: Limiting Cookie Sales by Strengthening Their Brand?

February 8, 2010

Good news for you and your Thin Mint Addiction! The Girl Scouts are making it easy to find out where those dang cookies are being sold! (Now I don’t have to drive to Walmart and get the cheaper but less meaningful generic imitations!) The Girl Scouts have an online cookie locator– just type in your [...]

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Walmart vs Girl Scouts: South Carolina Walmart Store bans Fundraisers

September 26, 2009

When I got an email last month from a reader who wanted me to know that some Wal-marts in Arizona had forbidden ceased to allow Girls Scout Troops to set up cookie selling booths in front of their stores, I didn’t believe it. “What a dumb move,” I thought. “There’s no way this could be [...]

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5 Blogs Every MBA Student Should Be Reading

September 8, 2009

Every MBA student is pressed for time. Balancing demanding priorities, like classes, learning teams, job hunting, and family, while also getting some sleep, leaves little time for cruising the web looking for insightful posts. Lucky for you all, I can recommend 5 terrific blogs that can help you link what you’re learning in your MBA [...]

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Can Walmart Earn the Girl Scouts’ Good Citizenship Award?

August 14, 2009

You don’t earn a merit badge for Good Citizenship by picking on the Girl Scouts. But what if Wal-mart wanted to? Commenters here and on other blogs that picked up my story that Wal-mart has chosen to compete with the Girl Scouts by knocking off the Girls Scouts’ two most popular cookies have criticized Wal-mart [...]

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Wal-Mart Knocks Off the Girl Scouts

August 3, 2009

(Welcome MacLeans Readers… Please join the conversation! ) Just when you think your opinion about Wal-mart might be changing… Just when you think that maybe, just maybe, Wal-mart was learning to be a better citizen… Wal-mart turns around and does something really … despicable. It’s not discriminating against women, strong-arming suppliers, polluting neighborhoods or racing [...]

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