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  Look at the whole article

  David:

  I understand where you're coming from on this and I know we both want what's best for the planet, but I think your entire Wal-Mart position is horribly misguided.

  This is from the Guardian article:

  The test pool the company has given him is a field of associates at eight stores, because the people who work there are a lot like the 92 percent of Americans (according to company calculations) who walk through the front doors steering shopping carts. Through workshops and retreats, Werbach is sitting down with associates and asking them what their goals are. Losing weight? Quitting smoking? Spending more time with their families? Those are real-world challenges that Werbach helps them see in a broader context and tackle with a tool set that considers the basic tenets of sustainability.

  Sounds good, right?  What you have to remember is that Wal-Mart has a turnover rate of at least 45% and as they just capped the salary of long-term associates last week, it is headed much higher.  Why in the world would an employee change drastically change his or her lifestyle at the behest of what is essentially their temporary employer?

  Werbach THINK he is making a difference, but why did they stuck him in a dead end project?  Any fool could have told Wal-Mart to change its lightbulbs.  What Wal-Mart really needed is his environmental credibility, and if you ask me he sold it pretty cheap.

  JROn Werbach and Wal-Mart posted 3 years, 3 months ago 4 Responses