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Originally Posted by bwind22
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Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices
I've always hated Wal-Mart for the way they conduct their business (moving in to small towns and utterly crushing the local competition right out of business with their sweatshop low prices) so I really didn't need to watch this to figure out any new reasons to hate Wal-Mart, but this is an EXCELLENT documentary! EXCELLENT. If you're a Wal-Mart shopper, watch this & you won't be. This film basically covers everything.... From how Wal-Mart deliberately runs small stores out of business, to how their corporate management openly discriminates against women and minorities, to how they pollute without regard while claiming to be environmentally conscious, to how they operate their sweatshops in Bangladesh & China (and fire American employees they send to the sweatshops to report on conditions when they report something that Wal-Mart doesn't like), to how they vehemently refuse any possibility of a worker's union, to how they claim to take care of their employees while paying them less than a livable income and terrible helath coverage (Wal-Mart actually TELLS their employees to use state sponsored health programs, WIC & welfare instead of just offering better benefits to them.), to how the Walton family (owners) donated a whopping less than 1% of their combined wealth (of over 100 billion dollars) to charity (By comparison, Bill Gates donated 58% of his wealth to charity) to how they train their store managers to actually go into the computer systems and delete worker's over time or shuffle it ahead to the next week.
I fancy myself pretty well informed on Wal-Mart's dirty deeds but I still learned a lot from this documentary and I highly suggest that you do too. See this before you set foot in to a Wal-Mart (or Sams Club. Same ownership.)
In all, this is probably one of the best documentary's I've ever seen & I wish there was a way that I could make every single person in this country watch it.
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I haven't got to see this yet but it's so odd because my aunt makes over $80,000 a year at Wal-Mart and gets good benefits...
They shouldn't HAVE to allow a union in either but that's just my opinion. Oddly enough, I went to Wal-Mart months and months ago and asked everybody in the "movie" department if they had this movie and I was met with blank stares. I am anxious to see it, I'll have to add it to my Netflix list. Personally I haven't really shopped at Wal-Mart since they edited all their music, stopped selling Al Snow toys, and wouldn't sell that Southern gentleman's BBQ sauce because he flew a confederate flag above his factory.