Retailers Use Databases to Track and Exclude Workers
Apr 3, 2013 Retailers across the country have created a database of workers accused of stealing and are using the information to deprive those people of jobs.
Target Knows Your Secrets
Feb 17, 2012 Decades of neuropsychology research have given Target the ability to predict customers’ shopping habits with increasing precision. The company’s statistical team can even tell when shoppers are likely to be in their second trimester of pregnancy. Combined with aggressive marketing tactics, such powers promise to add millions to its already swollen revenues.
Big Ad Man on Campus
Sep 11, 2011 American corporations are pushing the use of peer pressure to sell products to a new level as they hire roughly 10,000 college students around the country to work as brand ambassadors to their friends and acquaintances this year. (more)
What We Have Here Is a Failure to Compensate
Jul 24, 2011 At a time of record unemployment, American companies are increasingly exploiting the low-cost labor of 23 million Americans behind bars This means fewer jobs available for free citizens, which leads to more unemployment, which produces more crime (more).
Lady Gaga Takes Target to Task for Little LGBT Monsters
Feb 23, 2011 So, Lady Gaga struck a deal with Target to release a special version of her new album, "Born This Way," which rankled some of her core devotees, as the retail giant had made a supersized slip-up in the political arena with contributions to a political action committee .
