{"id":27512,"date":"2012-04-22T19:16:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T01:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/22\/the-revenue-must-flow.html"},"modified":"2012-04-22T19:16:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T01:16:38","slug":"the-revenue-must-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/22\/the-revenue-must-flow.html","title":{"rendered":"The Revenue Must Flow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fairly damning evidence regarding Wal-Mart using bribery to leverage their way into the lucrative market in Mexico.  Classy! Also, illegal!  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fextras.mnginteractive.com%2Flive%2Fmedia%2Fsite36%2F2012%2F0421%2F20120421__20120422_A14_ND22WALMARTPIC%7Ep1_200.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/nationworld\/ci_20452295\/wal-mart-executives-u-s-brushed-aside-evidence'>Wal-Mart executives in U.S. brushed aside evidence of rampant bribery in Wal-Mart de Mexico expansion &#8211; The Denver Post<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMEXICO CITY\u00a0\u2014In September 2005, a senior Wal-Mart lawyer received an e-mail from a former executive at the company\u001bs largest foreign subsidiary, Wal-Mart de Mexico.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fairly damning evidence regarding Wal-Mart using bribery to leverage their way into the lucrative market in Mexico. Classy! Also, illegal! #ddtb Embedded Link Wal-Mart executives in U.S. brushed aside evidence of rampant bribery in Wal-Mart de Mexico expansion &#8211; The Denver Post MEXICO CITY\u00a0\u2014In September 2005, a senior Wal-Mart lawyer received an e-mail from a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/22\/the-revenue-must-flow.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Revenue Must Flow!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-27512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24037,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/25\/im-sure-fox-will-write-it-all-off-as-a-holiday-related-food-product-inciden.html","url_meta":{"origin":27512,"position":0},"title":"I&#39;m sure Fox will write it all off as a holiday-related food product inciden&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 25-Nov-11 12:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm sure Fox will write it all off as a holiday-related food product incidentInsanity.I don't know who to feel disgust as more -- the people who get so swept up in material goods to behave in this way, or the retailers who do everything in their power to foment this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9386,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/18\/wal_mart_tries.html","url_meta":{"origin":27512,"position":1},"title":"Wal-Mart tries to be hip, but barely manages hep","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 18-Jul-06 6:56am","format":false,"excerpt":"Wal-Mart, seeing more teen shopping dollars going to Target, is trying to woo the cool kids back by building its own MySpace-type of site. Except, of course, it's patently filled...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Business&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7396,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/15\/if_you_cant_bea.html","url_meta":{"origin":27512,"position":2},"title":"If you can&#8217;t beat &#8217;em, cheat &#8217;em","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 15-Mar-05 3:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Let's say you're Wal-Mart, and some community has the audacity to restrict your right to unfettered metasticizing by putting a cap on retail store size -- say, 75,000 square feet,...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Business&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11279,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/04\/there_is_hope_for_america.html","url_meta":{"origin":27512,"position":3},"title":"There is hope for America &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 4-Oct-07 9:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"... because the Wal-Mart juggernaut seems to be stalling.\u00a0 Despite this Andromeda Strain-like expansion, the chain may be at a high water mark. Using a combination of low prices and...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Business&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27439,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/17\/the-little-league-internet-tax-cometh.html","url_meta":{"origin":27512,"position":4},"title":"The Little League Internet Tax cometh","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 17-Apr-12 8:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because if Internet companies like Amazon aren't forced to collect sales taxes, then Main Street companies will go out of business which will wipe out the support for your local Little League team! Honest!Um ...Okay, it's a complicated equation. Lack of sales tax payment does provide Internet vendors an advantage\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3877,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/19\/only_101.html","url_meta":{"origin":27512,"position":5},"title":"Only 101?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Mar-03 1:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a long but entertaining article on The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business of 2002. A few highlights: Panic in the heartland, part 1: The crisis begins. Outside a Wal-Mart...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Business&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}