Yesterday, Wal-Mart posted same-store sales reports for the month of March. Robin, a blogger for The Writing On The Wal, discussed Wal-Mart's endless excuses for low numbers over the past year:

We’ve heard the cold weather blamed for bad numbers. We’ve heard the weather and Fathers’ Day blamed for the bad numbers. We’ve heard the Fourth of July blamed for the bad numbers. We’ve heard the price of gasoline blamed for the bad numbers. It’s always something - as long as that something has nothing to do with WalMart’s well-deserved reputation as the leading exploiter of the American worker, danger to the American economy and all-around bad actor. This month is no exception.

Sales are down, down, down. What’s to blame? If you guessed a late Easter, rising fuel prices AND the weather, you win the WalMart Trifecta!

Weak WalMart sales are now Jesus’ fault? Well in defense of Catholicism, let me point out that in 2004, Easter fell on April 11, only five days earlier than it does this year and WalMart’s monthly same-store sales figures for that March were 6%.

I can deal with the weather excuse and the Fathers’ Day excuse and the rising gas prices excuse and the our-customers-are-too-poor-to-buy-stuff excuse - even though I have a feeling quite a few of them are finding their way over to Target and CostCo. But shame on you, Walmart, for waging War on Easter. That’s unseemly even for you.

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