Small Steps Toward Trade Unionization in China’s Wal-Marts
China Labor News Translations released this report: The trade unions in Chinese Wal-Mart stores are often dismissed as hollow shells set up by the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) without...
View ArticleWal-Mart Seeks Growth in Small Town China
AP reports that Wal-Mart and other foreign retailers are hoping to profit from rising incomes in China’s second- and third-tier cities: China’s economic growth is rapidly spreading out from the main...
View ArticleWal-Mart Sets New Rules for Suppliers, Starting in China
In response to recent food safety concerns, Wal-Mart is rewriting environmental and safety guidelines for suppliers. From MarketWatch: In a new agreement with its suppliers, the world’s largest...
View ArticleWal-Mart and Ernst & Young Cut China Staff
Foreign firms in China are responding to the economic crisis by reducing staff or cutting down their hours and pay. Wal-Mart is cuttng out one layer of management in an effort to reduce costs. From...
View ArticleWal-Mart Enters China’s Convenience Store Market
From Reuters: Wal-Mart, the world’s top retailer, said on Wednesday it has launched a pilot programme to open convenience stores in China, seeking to boost its presence in one of the world’s fastest...
View ArticleWal-Mart Workers Beat Customer To Death
ESWN translates an Apple Daily report about a customer beaten to death by employees of Wal-Mart in Jingdezhen: At around 7pm on August 30, 37-year-old Yu Xiaochun went to make purchases at the Wal-Mart...
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Tian Beibei (田北北): Knives Removed from the Shelves in Foreign Supermarkets in...
Following two stabbings in Beijing in two days during the run-up to celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the PRC, foreign big box stores have ordered employees to temporarily remove...
View ArticleIn China, Wal-Mart Presses Suppliers on Labor, Environmental Standards
Wal-Mart, one of China’s biggest customers, has asked its thousands of suppliers to tighten their environmental standards. From the Washington Post: Wal-Mart has more than 10,000 suppliers in China. In...
View ArticleDisney, Walmart Toy Supplier Faces Sweatshop Accusations
Corporate responsibility organisation Sacom has accused a Shenzhen toy factory, whose customers include Disney, Mattel and Walmart, of labour abuses such as forced, excessive overtime and employment of...
View ArticleWal-Mart Shutters Chongqing Stores in Face of Fraud Allegations
Wal-Mart has closed twelve stores in Chongqing amid accusations that it falsely labeled regular pork products as higher-priced organic pork for the past two years. From Bloomberg: Wal-Mart closed the...
View ArticleWal-Mart's China Chief Resigns
A pork scandal forced Wal-mart to shutter more than a dozen Chongqing locations last week, and now its top China executive has stepped down. From Xinhua News: Ed Chan, who served as president and CEO...
View ArticleOrville Schell: How Walmart Is Changing China
Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, visited Wal-Marts across China and has written a lengthy piece for The Atlantic looking at the...
View ArticleAre Walmart’s Factories as Bad as Apple’s?
Mother Jones has published a lengthy investigative report on Wal-Mart’s controversial and ambitious policies promoting sustainability, which finds that the auditing process in the corporation’s Chinese...
View ArticleChina Approves Wal-Mart E-Commerce Deal
Despite Wal-Mart’s turbulent run in China, the Arkansas based company has now received approval for its previous bid to raise its stake in an online supermarket. From Reuters: Wal-Mart had said in...
View ArticleChina Strategies: Walmart and Starbucks
After building an empire on cheap imports from China, Walmart is trying to attract the country’s new rich with low prices online, as economic slowdown dampens conspicuous consumption. From Marcus...
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