Meanwhile in Bentonville

Josh Eidelson is in Bentonville, Arkansas covering OUR Walmart’s visit to Walmart HQ during its weeklong strike after earlier demonstrators were met with retaliation. Love this interaction in a Walmart museum between the blue shirts (Walmart employees in town for a Walmart meeting) and the green shirts (OUR Walmart members):

Most of the blue-shirted Walmart employees in the museum cafeteria this afternoon declined to be interviewed (“I don’t know if we’re permitted to socialize with media,” said one). A group of Washington employees at one table were effusive in praising their trip but became reticent once I brought up their green-shirted counterparts. “We have no comments about that,” said one. “They can do their own thing, but we’ll do our own,” said a second. “They’re in the wrong dress attire for us,” a third said with a laugh.

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