On AlterNet: retail

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3 Surprising Shopping Habits That Are Bad for the World

Lauren Kelley, AlterNet. March 12, 2012.

While most progressives are aware of Wal-Mart's labor problems, they may not know about the way workers at an Amazon shipping facility are treated.

Vision: Deadly Accidents, Inhumane Conditions -- Why We Must Fight to Stop Abuse of the World's Sweatshop Workers

Lauren Kelley, AlterNet. December 31, 2010.

Conditions at sweatshops overseas have not improved as much as they should have over the past several decades. Not by a long shot.

Ghost Malls: Stores Go Out of Business Across America

Steven D., Booman Tribune. July 21, 2009.

The problem of retail vacancies is a growing one all across the country as many stores downsize or simply go out of business altogether.

It Is Going to Be a Wal-Mart Christmas

Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. November 19, 2008.

Wal-Mart is the only store where hard-squeezed consumers can afford anything, and so it keeps posting big profits amid the retail bloodbath.

The Fall of the American Consumer

Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com. March 12, 2008.

We have been the world's designated shoppers, and, if we fall down on the job, we take the global economy with us.

All We Want for Christmas is a Good Economy

Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. November 13, 2007.

As the holiday season approaches, a recent poll shows that the economy has beaten Iraq as the issue of most concern to Americans.

After Its Subsidiary Bribed Mexican Officials, Wal-Mart Lobbies To Weaken Anti-Bribery Laws

Zaid Jilani, December 31, 1969.