Walmart losses exclusive right to smiley
- by Holly
I tend to defend Walmart usually. Lately though they seem to be doing some stupid things corporate wise and even talking to some former co-workers it seems they they 
are starting locally to live up to their reputation. I did find out more about that women and I think walmart needs to shove it up their butt and leave her alone. It seems that as the economy gets worse so does the business practices of corporate America.
Anyway now I have found out they were trying to say they have exclusive rights to their smiley. That stupid it’s a smiley face that has been around a lot longer then they have had it. I’m happy to hear there was a judge thinking clearly and he decided that the smiley was not just Walmart’s, but available to everyone.
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Funny post.
You said, “It seems that as the economy gets worse so does the business practices of corporate America.”
Actually: As the business practices of corporate America get worse, so does the economy.
The current business environment (i.e. predatory lending, employers who won’t pay living wages or medical insurance, out of control executive salaries, out of control trade deficits, overseas outsourcing) is the reason the little guy in America has no money left to spend and is defaulting on loans and spending less at the stores.
I do like your wording better. I agree oursourceing overseas and out of control salaries are a problem. I think the wages and salary is what is driving these companies overseas,
The boing commentary descends into bashing walmart for everything except this trademark suit. But it was apparent to me from when this suit first became public nearly two years ago that Walmart intended to lose this suit. How many different “creators” of the smiley face had already sued walmart, and how many additional suits would they have to defend? Now they are free to use the smiley unmolested, because it has been firmly placed into the public domain by their loss.
I could see them doing that, just to avoid future law suits. A smart business move, but still bad for their reputation. Of course I really don’t think they care about that anymore.