{"id":1323,"date":"2007-06-13T02:32:56","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T00:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.greenmedia.md\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2007-06-13T02:32:56","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T00:32:56","slug":"the-bentonville-diaries-bentonville-wal-mart-supercenter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/the-bentonville-diaries-bentonville-wal-mart-supercenter-2.html","title":{"rendered":"The Bentonville Diaries: Bentonville Wal-Mart SuperCenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenoptions.com\/files\/images\/Wal-Mart_Supercenter_0.JPG\" border=\"0\" width=\"430\" height=\"284\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#039;s note: I had hoped to actually complete this series last week, but my administrative duties got the best of me.  So, here&#039;s part two on my trip to Bentonville, Arkansas, for Wal-Mart&#039;s media day and shareholders&#039; meeting.  You can find part one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenoptions.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/05\/the_bentonville_diaries_bentonville_sams_club\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After finishing up at Sam&#039;s Club, our next stop was the Bentonville Supercenter.  Like the Sam&#039;s Club we visited, the Supercenter was fairly new: it had opened in May, 2005. Like the store we&#039;d just come from, this one also sported ample skylights and bright white walls, and had a definite &quot;upscale&quot; feel.  One of the executives who met us on the tour confirmed this was intentional for the particular store&#8230; a part of the company&#039;s &quot;store of the community&quot; concept.<\/p>\n<p>That idea perked my ears up, of course &#8212; wouldn&#039;t a  &quot;store of the community&quot; be carrying local foods and produce in the grocery section?  That question was answered before I got to ask it: yes, a handful of produce items were purchased from local farmers. We also saw plenty of evidence of Wal-Mart&#039;s organics push as we walked through other areas of the store&#039;s grocery section.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#039;s note: I had hoped to actually complete this series last week, but my administrative duties got the best of me. So, here&#039;s part two on my trip to Bentonville, Arkansas, for Wal-Mart&#039;s media day and shareholders&#039; meeting. You can find part one here. After finishing up at Sam&#039;s Club, our next stop was the [&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-1323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323","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=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}