Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has fired a systems technician and his supervisor after an internal investigation found that the employee had monitored and recorded telephone conversations between Wal-Mart public relations associates and a reporter from The New York Times, the company announced Wednesday. Wal-Mart, the world's largest retail chain, began conducting an internal investigation in January, after an unnamed company employee expressed concern about the recordings, which were made over a four-month period between September 2006 and January 2007, according to Mona Williams, vice president of corporate communications.
See "Wal-Mart fires 2 employees for snooping", Christopher Browne, CNN Money, March 4, 2007