New Wal-Mart Communist Party Branch

The ever-expanding Wal-Mart has a new communist party branch:

SHANGHAI, China (AP) -- Capitalist icon Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer, now has its first communist party branch.

The party branch, a Communist Youth League branch and a trade union were set up earlier this month at the outlet in the northeastern rust belt city of Shenyang, a staffer in the store's communications department said, confirming Chinese media reports.

The good news about this is if the store runs short of anything, instead of waiting while replacements are shipped thousands of mile from Chinese sweatshops, they can just run down to the corner and pick them up.