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Last Updated: Friday, June 27, 2008
Hank Mullany; Wal-Mart's boss in the Northeast is pushing the company's strategy to cut costs by going green
The Philadelphia Inquirer
June 26, 2008 The big idea: Driving the sustainability bandwagon. In an initiative that's extravagant in its fossil-fuel-saving thrift, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has gone green to cut supplier costs, shipping costs, operating costs and customers' electricity bills. The venture is mission-critical for the discount chain, Mullany said. "It helps us keep our costs low." Eco-economizing: Refrigerator cases in Wal-Mart's fifth-generation prototype store, in Las Vegas, have motion sensors to turn off the lights when no one's around, saving the company more electricity in one year than the average household consumes in a decade.
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