[SustainableTompkins] Walmart Pulls the plug on green initiatives

[Cnielsen56 at aol.com]

This was GRIST's APRIL FOOLS joke....
 
In a message dated 4/1/2007 5:52:33 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
tonydelplato at gmail.com writes:

*Sale  Ends Today!*
*Wal-Mart pulls the plug on green initiatives*

Wal-Mart  CEO Lee Scott, who announced a high-profile series of green
corporate  initiatives last year, has now ... taken them back. Citing high
costs,  Scott yesterday announced that Wal-Mart is canceling most of  its
sustainability programs, shifting its truck fleet back to diesel  (from
biofuels), shuttering its experimental hyper-efficient stores, and  pulling
organic products from its shelves. The only remaining evidence of  Wal-Mart's
much-ballyhooed green makeover will be -- you guessed it --  light bulbs.
"We're keeping the compact fluorescents. Those are pretty  cheap," said
Scott. "The rest of the stuff we tried was too expensive. In  the end, our
customers value low prices more than sustainability, and at  Wal-Mart, we
listen to our customers."

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*straight  to the source:* *The Wall  Street
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Kevin  Ryan, 01 Apr 2007


*straight to the source:* *The New  York
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Dan  Bogden, 01 Apr 2007



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