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[Adventurer]

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Video embarrassment for Wal-Mart

The footages shows Wal-Mart executives in unguarded moments
Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, faces embarrassment and potential lawsuits after its corporate video archive was made public.

Flagler Productions, which worked for Wal-Mart for almost 30 years, has made its footage available to lawyers, unions and media organisations.

The archive includes clips of male store managers parading in drag.

Wal-Mart dropped Flagler in 2006 and only offered the firm $500,000 for the video library.

Flagler had asked for $150m before reducing its price to $145m, according to a letter on Wal-Mart's website.

The footage captures Wal-Mart executives and employees in closed meetings and unguarded moments.

A lawyer stumbled on the archive when representing a 12-year-old boy who suffered extensive burns after a gas canister bought at Wal-Mart exploded.

She found footage of employees joking and playing skits about exploding gas cans, reports said.

Flagler says that since Wal-Mart never signed a contract for its services, the rights to the tapes still belong to the production company.

Reports say Flagler, based in Kansas City, is now charging $250 an hour for video research.

Wal-Mart has not commented on the

ATTENTIONWALMARTSHOPPERS

[wannago]

If only the parents of the students that some of the.....ummm....."teachers" on this board teach could see those teachers in "unguarded" moments, both at the work site and in private, it would be so funny. Wouldn't it? Wouldn't it be cool to uphold the stereotype of English teachers being drugged out and drunk? The stereotype is there for a reason, isn't it?

[Milwaukiedave]

To hell with selling the tapes to Wal-Mart, they should put out a series of DVD, Wal-Mart Execs Gone Wild Volumes 1-10. At $9.95 a pop they could make a mint.

[Adventurer]