Bob McCarty Writes

Three days ago, I wrote a post, I’m Ready to Blog for Wal-Mart, in which I highlighted the apparent staffing largesse that exists within the Wal-Mart corporate infrastructure in the form of the retailer’s newly-relaunched blog, Check Out.

Today, I learned my observations, which appear as an article at NowPublic.com, seemed to spark interest in visitors [...]

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This morning, I stumbled upon Wal-Mart’s new blog, Check Out, which went live seven days ago. After a quick look around, I decided, for several good reasons, that I’m ready to drop everything and go to work as a Wal-Mart blogger.
The first thing that sold me on the idea was the message contained in [...]

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Two days ago at Bob McCarty Writes, I published a post, Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs Prove Costly, about the controversy surrounding compact fluorescent light bulbs (a.k.a., “CFLs”). Today, an environmentalist* came to my rescue.
Lara Bernstein felt obliged to let my readers know “You don’t have to face fines if you simply follow these instructions” and [...]

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Have you replaced your traditional incandescent light bulbs with bulbs of the compact fluorescent variety? If so, you may be in for a big surprise when it comes time to dispose of one or clean up the mess after a CFL bulb breaks.
Because CFL bulbs contain mercury, you can’t dispose of them in the [...]

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