Friday, November 23, 2012

Scattered Walmart strikes don't dent Black Friday bottom line | Nation/world Business | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

Scattered Walmart strikes don't dent Black Friday bottom line | Nation/world Business | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:

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 Scattered strikes and protests by Walmart workers and their supporters in at least nine states may have scored symbolic points Friday by taking on the retail giant head-on, but apparently they did little to keep shoppers away as the company quickly claimed its best Black Friday ever.
The company said in a statement Friday morning that its stores rang up almost 10 million transactions from the time doors opened for Black Friday shoppers at 8 p.m. Thursday until midnight, or about 5,000 items per second.
CEO Bill Simon said in a statement that there were only 26 protests at stores Thursday night, "and many of them did not include any Walmart associates."

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several thousand supporters of the strike did not black friday shop at walmarts

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