Walmart just can't get a break, can they? We've received no less than
four documentaries about the category crusher in the last month or so:
Wal-mart: The High Cost
of Low Prices
Frontline:
Is Wal-mart good for America?
Store wars: When Walmart
comes to Town
Why Wal-mart Works and
why that makes some people crazy
Of course, we've also got a few new interesting documentaries about
marketing that are worth a look: "Merchants
of Cool" and "Frontline:
The Persuaders". We've got a list of some business type films
on our web site if you want to have a look
(about a quarter of the way down). When is someone going to
make a movie about Blockbuster's shenanigans?
Of great interest to a few
should be the french version of "March
of the Peguins" with an entirely different audio track. I have
not seen it yet but hear it is excellent. Let me know if you get a chance
to watch it. Oh, it's PAL only -- sorry.
Have an excellent first week of an empty campustown...
Geoff (and all the other
Rentertarians)
P.S. Did you know that these
e-mails are archived on our web site? If you want to refer back to any
of them, go here.
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