Walmart to improve working conditions by playing less Justin Bieber
Walmart, America's largest employer, may have recently announced better wages for new workers, but they come at a heavy cost: namely, working to a non-stop loop of Celine Dion and Justin Bieber in Walmart stores. But no more: Fortune reports that Walmart executives earlier this week mercifully announced that the music would be replaced by an actual DJ who will offer a greater variety of tunes:
Instead, the company is bringing back Radio Walmart after nine years, meaning an actual DJ will keep things fresh, rather than playing the same handful of CD’s over and over as many stores did, driving countless associates (and customers, too, probably) batty. [Fortune]
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