Chris Kofinis Quotations

More consumers don't just see Wal-Mart as a business, they see it is a social and political issue. Until Wal-Mart changes substantially, those consumers they are going after, who can make a choice about where they shop, will avoid Wal-Mart.

For years, labor leaders were fighting Wal-Mart the old way, but times have changed.

We've been very active in leading the way. Wal-Mart is trying to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

People are just beginning to realize how much power they have.

Our hope is that what comes from this is that Wal-Mart will take seriously our concerns and millions of people who want to see Wal-Mart do the right thing every day,

States like Maryland should be applauded, not sued, for trying to address the tragic fact that in state after state Wal-Mart forces taxpayers to subsidize its health-care costs.

Wal-Mart understands that they have a growing public relations disaster on their hands. American people are looking at a company with $10 billion in profit and $285 billion in sales that makes excuse after excuse about why it can't provide a living wage and health care to its workers.

Wal-Mart's future in 2006 will not look any brighter unless Lee Scott realizes that Wal-Mart must change into a more responsible employer.

Wal-Mart is facing a perfect storm of negativity. People are rallying around this movement. It's not just workers. It's rippling out and becoming a real debate about values.

We don't want to destroy Wal-Mart. We want to change it, to make it a decent, humane company, which it could easily do. We're not going to rest or sleep one bit until that happens.

What this truly is, is a publicity stunt meant to repair a faltering public image.

We think its only fair after all the ballot and financial help Republicans have given Nader -- let alone all the help Nader is taking from Republicans -- that we do our part to bring you all together for next week's big Republican party in New York City. After seeing the passion and hard work that right-wing has put into helping Nader, we thought it only fair that Nader have a chance to speak at the Republican Convention.

As these facts get out, and the American people learn that decisions were made not to fund improvements of the levees because of Iraq, they will not be happy.

At some point this has got to reach critical mass. Nobody knows when that will happen or how that will happen, but it will literally explode into a movement.

Rather than address the serious issues of unaffordable health care, poverty wages, crime, and sprawl, Wal-Mart?s latest and greatest public relations stunt is to try to rebuild a fraction of the very communities and small business it has helped destroy.

This is a desperate attempt to remake their faltering image.

You can?t just be the one who criticizes; you have to be the one who offers a new road.

It's another sad day where Americans learn the truth about Wal-Mart's business practices and the depths they will go to provide so-called low prices.

It should concern every American taxpayer. Their dirty little secret is they provide so-called low prices by shifting heath-care costs to the taxpayers.

The notion that Sam Walton cared about its workers, and the community, those positive aspects have gone.

economic divide in this country that we are fighting as a group to address.

Stuck in the midst of a public relations quagmire that no other company faces, Wal-Mart realizes that it must change its faltering public image to ensure its future success.

None of the changes address the key point that a 'Wal-Mart bank' would result in a dangerous concentration of economic power which is bad for consumers, small business, and our nation's economy.

If Wal-Mart was serious about diversity, it would hire independent auditors, stop refusing to disclose its diversity goals, and finally release the hard data about what Wal-Mart pays its women and minority workers.

If Wal-Mart chose to do the right thing every day, they wouldn't need a super-secret public relations strategy,

In terms of pay and benefits, the Wal-Mart business model is leading this race to the bottom. Unfortunately, other companies are following it.

All we know is that again and again, Wal-Mart will say one thing and do the opposite.

All these initiatives are good for Wal-Mart but they don't address the core problems that they create for their workers and their communities.

The Maryland bill is a responsible piece of legislation that will make sure that large employers live up to their health care responsibilities.