Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart has moved to the top of the Fortune 500 List. Because this is a list of the highest revenue-earning companies, it is also a list of potential targets for the host of parasites spawned in American law schools and diversity studies classrooms. Of course Wal-Mart is already beset by such attacks, but its newfound prominence will attract the same in much larger scale, because it increasingly offers not only a payout, but also the publicity that these types crave. I predict that in the next twelve months Wal-Mart will face at least one of the following:
1. Protests by Jesse Jackson and his ilk demanding that the company place more minorities in executive positions and build small-scale (i.e., unprofitable) stores in depressed urban neighborhoods. The protests will end when Wal-Mart wisely joins Jackson's inner circle of supporters.
2. A class action lawsuit brought by well-heeled ambulance chasers seeking damages on behalf of people injured by guns/prescription drugs/infant carriers sold at Wal-Mart.
3. Protests and lawsuits brought by the AFL-CIO alleging that Wal-Mart illegally discourages unionization.
Remember, you heard it here first.
Posted by Woodlief on April 01, 2002 at 10:39 AM