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Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Wal-Mart: Lower costs, always.

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The New York Times dug up an internal Wal-mart memo that shows the company hopes to keep down its costs by hiring more part-timers and discouraging unhealthy people from applying for jobs. Scott Tong reports.

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