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mwito

10/22/11 7:56 AM

#10232 RE: AugustineAl #10231

WALLMART SHAREHOLDERS NEED YOU NOW!!!
Wal-Mart is the world's largest retailer and is the largest corporation and private employer in the United States.1 For the fiscal year ended January 2003, the company reported operating net income of $12.6 billion on annual revenues of $246 billion, and the company has a market capitalization of $223 billion, representing 2.0% of the total market capitalization of the S&P 500 Stock Index. For the third straight year, Wal-Mart topped the annual Fortune 500 ranking of the nation's largest companies. The company, as the biggest employer in 25 states, is a primary standard setter for wages and labor practices. Wal-Mart employs 1.4 million workers worldwide and over 1 million in the United States, with more than 3,000 stores in the U.S. and almost 1,300 international operations.1

November 2004: Wal-Mart was ordered to pay $765,000 in fines for violating state petroleum storage tank laws

May 2004: Wal-Mart will pay a $3.1 million fine to settle a Clean Water Act violation

January 2004: Wal-Mart agreed to pay a $400,000 penalty and to stop selling refrigerants that contain ozone-depleting substances.

2004: "Federal labor law charges have been filed on behalf of Wal-Mart workers in 25 states

November 2003: U.S. Attorney's Office saying the world's largest retailer allegedly violated federal immigration laws.
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Russ49

10/22/11 9:41 AM

#10236 RE: AugustineAl #10231

Al, the devil is in the details. I would like to read some of the complaints and also the response of the company to them. You can't please all the people all the time, no matter what. Did you ever read a product review where everyone except one idiot said the thing is great? There are also those who sue the hell out of companies to make money. The key here is how many complaints and how many travel packages were sold? If they got one complaint per 1000 sales, that's nothing to be concerned about.

Regarding Mirador. There are lots of professionals who don't even have websites. Then there are those who have a one page site, but they are top people. They don't need to advertise because everyone knows who they are. Mirador's site is sparse, but there is some information there. It looks like they started putting it together in 2010, and stopped. Still, it appears that they can do quite a lot for a client.