Wal-Mart Exploiting the Elderly

Just when you think Wal-Mart couldn't stoop any lower, they do!

Annie Lee Martin, an 82-year-old resident of Inglewood, California, was recently the target of a public relations blitz for a new Wal-Mart proposed to be built in Inglewood.

Since Wal-Mart was meeting a lot of resistance to its new store proposal, they thought they'd do whatever they could to influence public opinion in their favor--but they did it at the expense of Annie Martin.

As Annie was leaving a supermarket near her home, she was photographed by a sort-of "Wal-Mart papparazzi." They then, in turn, used her photograph on a postcard which was mailed out to residents in the area.

The postcard also featured what seemed to be a glowing letter of recommendation by Martin for the Wal-Mart project that stressed the boon of jobs for youth the initiative would bring – another attempt by the retail giant to paint the measure as a local economic windfall as well as put a folksy, African-American face on an increasingly heated battle over the fate of development in Inglewood. Martin has adamantly denied the quotes in the Wal-Mart "PR postcard."

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