Wal-Mart's Suppliers Are Finally Fighting Back by Shannon Pettypiece & Matthew Townsend at Bloomberg. "Saying the new fees will hurt their own bottom lines, several vendors are hiring lawyers, and a top executive from at least one supplier visited Wal-Mart’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, in hopes of reversing all or some of the new terms...A smaller supplier, notified of the fees late last month and given two weeks to accept, said it won’t be able to make a profit on its Wal-Mart business under those terms unless it fires workers or cuts wages and benefits." Read more   Wal-Mart [...]

  Lilly Pulitzer called out for fat-shaming by Mara Siegler at NY Post. "Along with shots of Lilly products and staff, the site showed a wall decorated with a drawing of a woman with sagging fat in a bikini that says, “Put it down carb face.” The other says, “Just another day of fat, white and hideous. You should probably just kill yourself.” Read more   ...See the pics here.   BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Brands 2015 (Amazon #14, Walmart #26, Home Depot #31...)  See the top 100 list   Leaked Site Reveals More Info On “ShippingPass” - Walmart’s [...]