I've worked for Wal-mart for about 8 years now, that being said, its the perfect production of capitalism. All it really does is try to redistribute sales from various areas to itself, and true for mom and pop stores this is bad and in small communities most companies can't compete with their prices. Frankly I found the comment about Wal-mart not having any money tied up in its product kinda funny because somewhere around half of our sales are from grocery items that are not imported from china. However for all those mom and pops out there which is worse, the fact that Wal-mart is giving customers the option of other places to shop or the customers for choosing to shop there? And to stave off some of the unavoidable flames for saying what i have, yes i agree Wal-mart is not always acting in the best interests of its customers or employees. Such as the fact they just transferred a manager from my store to another rather than fire her despite multiple complaints of flagrant discrimination.
entaries" these days are trash, e.g. Micheal Moore, simply because they use whatever "facts" or "statistics" that support their side regardless of any information to the contrary and/or tell sob stories to make their points seem like some heart-wrenching tale of woe. Case in point in "Wal-Mart: the High Cost of Low Prices" they talked to a single mother who lived in California who was complaining about not making enough money to support her family, now the part of this that made me laugh at her sob story is that her job of inventory control(a bit of a misnomer for an organizational job) is actually not a real technical job and is a pay grade 3 job meaning your base pay is 40cents higher than the normal base pay, still better than cashier which is only 20cents higher, back on point of rank, she was complaining that she didn't have enough money for her to support her kids and go to school herself... Very few nontechnical jobs would pay enough for a single mom to support her kids and for her to go to even a vocational school in her free time. But of course the focus of the "do
