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Mc Donald is pressing hard to drop the word ‘McJob’ from dictionaries.
McDonald, the world’s biggest fast food retailer, is pressing hard for either drop the word ‘McJob’ altogether from, or at least altering its meaning in, English language dictionaries, according a CNN Money report.
The word ‘McJob,’ which entered in the Webster […]

Which is the best place to attempt a suicide? Well, it turns out to be a Wal-Mart store! Here is an interesting story of how a teenager was saved from sustaining injuries: 
In an apparent attempted suicide Friday (13th April) morning, a 17-year-old set himself on fire in the electronics section of the Towne Boulevard Wal-Mart […]

“If our current strategy doen’t work, our last option will be only to appeal to the Indian consumers to help desis (locals) by buying from desi retailers”
Kishore Biyani CEO, Future Group and Managing Director, Pantaloon Retailing (India) Limited, speaking joculary on being asked: As to what he will do to meet the challenge of […]

Bachi Karkaria, the well known columnist, of the Times Group, who writes a popular weekly column “Erratica” in the Sunday Times, summed up fears of the Indian retailers, who for obvious reasons dread the entry of Wal-Mart in India, very well in just one word, thus:

Alec Smart said:
“What do Indian retailers dread?
Walmartyrdom.”
(Sunday Times: 3rd December, […]