Wal-Mart Thinks Customers Don't Read Magazines

This is a piece about Wal-Mart in which we’re not going to take any cheap shots. We’re not going to say anything about how their stores have wrecked rural economies worldwide, their hostile stance towards unions, their gross underpayment of workers, their demeaning public relations campaigns… we’re not going to mention anything about that. Because that would be unfair.

But Wal-Mart, who are responsible for more than 20% of retail magazine sales in the United States, have decided to stop carrying more than 1,000 magazines in their stores.

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