Wal-Mart's dedication to "low, low wages" is a satirist's dream. The Onion zeroes in on it in "Wal-Mart Announces Massive Rollback on Employee Wages" (December 8, 2004).
The Onion can take on "the $259 billion retail behemoth" (Liza Featherstone, "Will Labor Take the Wal-Mart Challenge?" The Nation, June 28, 2004) satirically, but can American trade unions organize it, whose managers are directed by Bentonville to make "a full-time commitment" to "staying union-free" ("Labor Relations and You at the Wal-Mart Distribution Center #6022," September 1991, p. 7)? If they can attack Wal-Mart's supply chain, yes. Wal-Mart's zeal to "hold the lowest feasible [inventory] level while avoiding the risks of 'stock outs,'" its competitive advantage, is also the weak link in its anti-union empire.
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