corporate-america

Biggest Corporate Profits Ever? We're All Rich!

Hamilton Nolan · 11/23/10 04:45PM

The Way We Live Now: better than ever before. Ever ever ever! Burn your overflowing excess supply of $100 bills to celebrate the fact that we've just had the best quarter of corporate profits ever. Everyone is rich! Except Velma.

Scandal: Labor Board Sympathetic to Labor

Hamilton Nolan · 11/11/10 04:48PM

The Way We Live Now: grossly violating the rights of unaccountable stateless corporations. Things have gotten so bad that even organized labor has found a safe harbor. Fortunately, a sea of bubbles is coming, to sweep us all away.

Study: Ladies Too Nice to Get Jobs

Hamilton Nolan · 11/10/10 01:40PM

If you're a lady, chances are every time someone writes you a letter of recommendation they say you're "caring" or "sensitive," especially if you threatened to rip their balls off if they didn't. There's your problem: too caring and sensitive!

Life at Wal-Mart: The Workers Speak, Vol. 1

Hamilton Nolan · 10/15/10 12:13PM

Wal-Mart is planning its entry into America's last remaining Wal-Mart-free areas. (Hello, NYC!). Yesterday, we asked Wal-Mart workers to send us their experiences working there. Several did. Tales of puddles of blood, homophobic managers, and "mean assholes" below.

What Would Wal-Mart Mean for New York?

Hamilton Nolan · 10/14/10 11:43AM

Wal-Mart is talking up its plans to build dozens and dozens of (relatively) small grocery stores, as a way to establish a beachhead in areas where it hasn't been able to enter. Like New York City. What will that mean?

Branding's Greatest Misses: The New Gap Logo

Hamilton Nolan · 10/07/10 11:06AM

People really are very upset about the new logo of famous clothing store GAP! Whereas the former white-on-blue logo was iconic, the new black-letters-next-to-a-little-blue-box design has Gap fans and branding experts alike befuddled and discombobulated.

Farmer's Markets Eaten by Corporate America

Hamilton Nolan · 09/24/10 10:47AM

Here's what a farmer's market is: farmers, selling their wares, in a market. Here's what a farmer's market isn't: Safeway wheeling its tomatoes out in front of the store. Okay, well, you don't have to so elitist about it!