Wal-Mart Embraces Green Movement

In one of your future visits to Wal-Mart, you may notice that something has changed. Wal-Mart has announced that it will put into effect a program that will assign environmental labels to all of its products, labels that will allow customers to easily determine the environmental costs of producing their merchandise.

This move may come as a surprise to many of the environmental groups that have vehemently protested Wal-Mart for its alleged disregard of the environment. Wal-Mart has taken several steps toward reducing man’s effect on the environment, such as its massive sale of low-energy light bulbs to its creating much more efficient laundry detergent.

There is some doubt when this label program will actually hit the stores. Although Wal-Mart has stated that it could take more than five years, other companies involved with Wal-Mart in the initiative have confidence that the program could be in place by 2011. Analysts are already scratching their heads as to what the labels would look like and how they would quickly get the necessary information across to shoppers.

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