Pick up your free copy of Homebasics Magazine, and then begin your storewide journey of discovery. There are three booths to explore: “Feel Beautiful“, “Fresh Meal Ideas” and “Healthy Choices“. Each will provide you with fresh ideas, free samples and products to help you look, cook and feel vital all summer long.
Vitality Days at Wal-mart will be held at the following locations:
June 14th and 15th
Wal-Mart Supercentre
800 Matheson Blvd West
Mississauga, ONJune 21st and 22nd
Wal-Mart Supercentre
450 Stevenson Road South
Oshawa, ONJune 28th and 29th
Wal-Mart Supercentre
135 First Commerce Drive
Aurora, ONJuly 5th and 6th
Wal-Mart Supercentre
160 Queensway East
Simcoe, ON
Just wondering if anyone knows if the Walmart Discover Vitality is coming to Nova Scotia?? I love this website, so much great info!!
For the moment, Homebasics has only listed select locations within Ontario unfortunately. If their website changes, we’ll keep you posted 🙂
If any of you SC’ers have the ‘scoop’ on this event, please let us know 🙂
â€The China Price,†a new book by Alexandra Harney, gets reviewed today by the Wall Street Journal. Though the book focuses on China, specifically, its broader message is about rock-bottom-cost manufacturing and the price we all pay for such practices.
Wal-Mart gets singled out as one of the worst perpetrators of this inhumane business model.
From the Wall Street Journal’s review:
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinajournal/2008/06/09/china-bookshelf-the-china-price/?mod=googlenews_wsj
One character that doesn’t fare too well in the book is the ubiquitous American retailer Wal-Mart. While Harney acknowledges that the problems faced by Wal-Mart are endemic to the whole China-outsourcing model, the company turns up often in the pages of “The China Price.†We meet the owner of a Wal-Mart supplier who relies on the ruses of false records, coached employees and invisible “shadow factories†to maintain his business with the retailer. Harney describes Wal-Mart’s code of conduct for suppliers as “loosely worded and limited in scope,†and she interviews two former compliance auditors who admit that it’s practically impossible to find a fully compliant factory. The author also secretly visits what she terms Wal-Mart’s “summer school for bad factories,†mandatory training for suppliers who have received warnings about their labor practices, where it seems that few students have a clue as to what’s being asked of them. (At the end of a morning lesson, fewer than 50% of students are able to correctly answer half the questions on a remedial test.)
Asked about the practice of subcontracting to shadow factories and other behavior that presents the illusion of compliance by suppliers, Beth Keck, Wal-Mart’s director of international corporate affairs, tells Harney that it’s up to the Chinese factories to decline orders that they can’t meet under Wal-Mart’s standards. “They’ve got a choice there,†she says. Both Keck and Rajan Kamalanathan, the vice president for ethical standards, acknowledge that the company doesn’t know whether customers would be willing to pay more for goods made in factories that comply more with Wal-Mart’s standards.
SIGH
Oh alex.
Sigh is right.