{"id":1185,"date":"2007-06-05T22:49:40","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T20:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.greenmedia.md\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2007-06-05T22:49:40","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T20:49:40","slug":"the-bentonville-diaries-bentonville-sams-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/the-bentonville-diaries-bentonville-sams-club.html","title":{"rendered":"The Bentonville Diaries: Bentonville Sam&#8217;s Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenoptions.com\/files\/images\/Sam%27s_Clubexterior_0.JPG\" border=\"0\" width=\"430\" height=\"286\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday and Friday, I was on the road again.  This time, my travels took me to Bentonville, Arkansas&#8230; yep, the home of Wal-Mart.  The company invited me down for its annual shareholders&#039; meeting and the media events preceding it. Over the next few days, I&#039;ll devote a few posts to what I saw, and what I thought.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#039;s media event was jam-packed with activities, starting with a tour of Bentonville&#039;s Sam&#039;s Club. Opened in September 2006, this store was a far cry from the one I remember going to with my parents years ago: as opposed to looking and feeling like a warehouse (which it basically was), the Bentonville store was bright and inviting.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/green-options-blog?a=lFtyGf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/green-options-blog?i=lFtyGf\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/green-options-blog?a=xZVoAQDL\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/green-options-blog?i=xZVoAQDL\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/green-options-blog?a=ZsnRAygF\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/green-options-blog?i=ZsnRAygF\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/green-options-blog\/~4\/122438207\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday and Friday, I was on the road again. This time, my travels took me to Bentonville, Arkansas&#8230; yep, the home of Wal-Mart. The company invited me down for its annual shareholders&#039; meeting and the media events preceding it. Over the next few days, I&#039;ll devote a few posts to what I saw, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}