July 9, 2008

Bright Logo => Bright Image? Not really

Wal-Mart has announced a move to the new logo while shedding the old widely-recognized logo. The new logo features softer lettering in a lighter color with a bright star. The corporation discarded the block letters and signature star punctuating the company name for this new lighter, brighter look.



I don’t think this logo change matches the company persona. Wal-Mart is a large, heavy corporation that does not harmonize with the carefree new logo. The consumers who are dedicated to the store do not seem to traditionally attracted to this new image. With the lighter logo, I associate it with companies who are modern, connected to innovative consumers, or are clean and crisp. Although Wal-Mart has launched a new marketing campaign proclaiming green focus, the mainstream image of the company is low prices and not thinking about where the product came from or how much people were getting paid to create it.