<p>Our class just finished watching the movie "A high cost to a low price", and if you haven't seen it go and watch it. Wal-Mart is the hugest corporation in America and it's so corrupt and fake it's sikening.
Wal-Mart discriminates against women, they don't give benfits to part time employees, they oppose unions and use cameras to watch their employees, they don't provide security at their parking lots and a lot of robbery and theft happens, they pollute the environment, they don't pay their employees for overtime, and they have sweatshops in china and these people work 7days a week and get paid 10c an hour. Also, the taxpayers pay for the Wal-Mart employees benifts, and Wal-Mart destroys communities.
It is so sad how Wal-Mart is so corrupt, and it makes me want to cry for the people who work this hard labor. The movie even said that sometimes the assistant mangers would change the employees hours and make it seem they were working less, and these people who have a family to feed are getting a really low income. Wal-Mart is being suied in 31 different states and they give really little money to charity. All their commericals are fake, and are not true. It makes me so mad how our own government can't do anything. Wal-Mart is a monopoly and its disgusting wht the corporation does. America has a lot of problems, including the government, I'm moving back to Africa when I'm older. But anytime you see something said "made in china" think of the hard working people that make that item. Don't shop at Wal-mart or Sam's Club bc Wal-Mart owns Sam's Club...arrgh I'm so mad</p>
<p>What country in Africa are you "moving back to?"</p>
<p>Don't you think that this movie could've have maybe been... I don't know... propoganda?</p>
<p>Yeah, these documentaries like to exaggerate things.</p>
<p>I like Wal-Mart. It has things there that i can buy elsewhere, like clothes and food, only for a lot less money. Awesome!</p>
<p>True, but they do provide many jobs.</p>
<p>Wal-Mart increases the purchasing power of hard working families by lowering the price of goods.
Wal-Mart eliminates inefficiencies in the market.
Wal-Mart returns it's profits to everyday Americans in the form of dividends
Wal-Mart pays it's employee's what the market demands.</p>
<p>People who hate Wal-Mart hate capitalism and thus hate the American lifestlye.</p>
<p>From: <a href="http://www.cornellreview.org/viewart.cgi?num=404%5B/url%5D">http://www.cornellreview.org/viewart.cgi?num=404</a></p>
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<p>The irrational, liberal Walmart-phobia</p>
<p>Company success shows capitalism is greatest form of democracy</p>
<p>Wal-Mart has become the retail hegemony that businesses, governments and consumers look to for direction. It has become the largest retailer in not just the United States, but in Mexico and Canada as well. Wal-Mart has become the focus of scrutiny as its power has steadily increased. Organizations like Stop Wal-Mart have developed to counter the mega-retailers' growth, dispatching agents to help communities bar the retailer from expanding. In 1994 Wal-Mart came to Ithaca promising economic development and lower prices. A Stop Wal-Mart campaign forced the retailer to take its money, jobs and tax revenue elsewhere. But today Wal-Mart is back, this time succeeding in its efforts to build a store on Route 13.</p>
<p>Speculations regarding the affects of Wal-Mart's edition to the Ithaca's business community are varied. Wal-Mart's critics say Ithaca will be sacrificing long term economic development for a short saving a few pennies, but if you ask Wal-Mart a few pennies in saving can go a long way when thinking in the long-term.</p>
<p>Wal-Mart's philosophy of everyday low prices is made possible by driving down costs, namely labor costs. Wal-Mart is able to do this while still offering competitive pay. Starting wages are calculated based on locale labor markets for similar jobs in the area. In markets where a Costco is present Sam's Club's, a Walmart subsidiary, wages are substantial higher because Costco pays the highest in the wholesale industry.</p>
<p>The megalith's mission to lower cost does not subtract from taking care of its employees. According to National Review, ninety percent of Wal-Mart's associates have health insurance. More than of half of these associates, Wal-Mart's name for its employees, buy into the company health plan. Many employees are semi-retired or students meaning their health care comes from Medicare, parents or others means. Considering the demographics, many Wal-Mart employees are not supporting a family and only work to supplement a spouse's income, Social Security, or provide a few bucks to take a high school sweet heart out on a Saturday night.</p>
<p>Wal-Mart's founder Sam Walton believed that two things made a company successful: first, its customers and second, its associates. Discussing the importance of the associate Walton said: 'The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It's terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.'</p>
<p>Being more than an economic powerhouse Wal-Mart is seen as a cultural giant deciding what consumers see and therefore what they buy. The common perception is that Wal-Mart is a right-wing company censoring its consumers from opposing views. This analysis originates from the pretentious thinking ever present at Cornell University. The Cornellians that don't share this hatred of Wal-Mart suffer from ignorance similar to Paris Hilton: 'Wal-Mart, what's that? Do they, like, make walls there?'</p>
<p>Among these elites is the Sun's Shahar Ziv. Once Ziv realized that Wal-Mart pulled Preven, the morning after pill, he concluded that Wal-Mart is working to 'narrow the mainstream . . . What's next? Are we not going to be able to find the Fahrenheit 9/11 DVD on Wal-Mart's shelves because of its liberal leanings?' If Ziv ever bothered to go into a Wal-Mart, more than once he might notice that the great cultural gatekeeper sells liberal commentary such as, Michael Moore's Dude Where's My Country.</p>
<p>Pulling abortion related products is far different than censorship. Liberals cry out about Halliburton alleged moral misconduct concerning itself only with the margin, but when a company takes a hit to the bottom line for ethics, it is seen as a power grab and censorship. The issue is not ethics, but rather liberal ethics.</p>
<p>Complaints against Wal-Mart have increasingly centered around not money, but power and influence. This Wal-Mart phobia forgets that the megalith is commonly defeated in its desire to open new stores. One needs only to think of 1994 when the proposal for a Wal-Mart store was defeated here in Ithaca.</p>
<p>If Wal-Mart still seems insurmountable, there is a force that will be its undoing, the same force that brought it to dominate: the market. Eventually, the competition will catch up. Retailers will somehow find a strategy that exposes a weakness of Wal-Mart and capitalize on it. Internet retailers with no physical presence have little overhead; perhaps they will beat Wal-Mart at its own game by cutting costs and lowering prices.</p>
<p>Whether or not Wal-Mart fall is inevitable people like Zir will continue to view Wal-Mart and other leaders of industries with mistrust. 'Will CEO Lee Scott and a handful of executives be making value-based decisions for the rest of America? Will social issues, meant to be decided by the people, the government, and the Supreme Court, ultimately end up being determined at least partially by Wal-Mart?' If Zir does turn out to be right and Wal-Mart does exert increasing influence in government is it not justified? Capitalism is the greatest form of democracy. In 2002 82% of American households made at least one purchase at Wal-Mart. If Wal-Mart maintains hegemonic status we will have cast our votes for it with cash register rings.
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<p>"America has a lot of problems, including the government, I'm moving back to Africa when I'm older."</p>
<p>So basically, when you are confronted with a problem or an injustice in life, you run. Anyone can complain, but it takes guts to do something about it.</p>
<p>I think it's funny that you actually think Africa is better than America.</p>
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Our class just finished watching the movie "A high cost to a low price", and if you haven't seen it go and watch it. Wal-Mart is the hugest corporation in America and it's so corrupt and fake it's sikening.
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How is it corrupt? It's books are audited by an army of accountants. They haven't found any corruption.</p>
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Wal-Mart discriminates against women
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Wal-mart creates jobs for working womenn</p>
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they don't give benfits to part time employees
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Can't part time employee's purchase private health insurance on their own?</p>
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they oppose unions
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They support employee's rights not to be intimidated into a union.</p>
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and use cameras to watch their employees
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To reduce theft and lower prices for honest, hardworking families.</p>
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they don't provide security at their parking lots and a lot of robbery and theft happens
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They have well-lit parking lots that are safe at night. Wal-mart is safer then being alon on a barren street</p>
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they pollute the environment
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They use God's resources for the benift of men as God intended.</p>
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they don't pay their employees for overtime
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Why don't employees quit if they break the law and underpay them. Is it because the min. wage is to high and they want jobs.</p>
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and they have sweatshops in china and these people work 7days a week and get paid 10c an hour.
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Why don't they find other work. They were starving to death on rural farms before western companies opened up modern factories. Wal-Mart is eliminating 3rd world poverty</p>
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Also, the taxpayers pay for the Wal-Mart employees benifts
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Congress should eliminate those benifits</p>
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and Wal-Mart destroys communities.
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How does creating jobs destroy communities</p>
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It is so sad how Wal-Mart is so corrupt, and it makes me want to cry for the people who work this hard labor.
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Poverty Sucks</p>
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The movie even said that sometimes the assistant mangers would change the employees hours and make it seem they were working less, and these people who have a family to feed are getting a really low income.
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Time to find another job. I'm sure the highly skilled employees of Wal-Mart should have no problem in the job market.</p>
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Wal-Mart is being suied in 31 different states
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Frivolous Lawsuits</p>
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and they give really little money to charity.
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Why should they give my dividends to charity. Giving money to charity without my permission is corruption. If they give to much there will be a shareholder lawsuit.
Besides, Don't charities own Wal-Mart shares.
Wal-Mart let's charities sell stuff on their property for fundraisers.</p>
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All their commericals are fake, and are not true
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Examples?</p>
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It makes me so mad how our own government can't do anything.
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Thank god it's still legal to make money in this country. </p>
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Wal-Mart is a monopoly
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What about Target and K-Mart?</p>
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and its disgusting wht the corporation does.
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What they do is glorious.</p>
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America has a lot of problems, including the government
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The government is too big and regulates bussinise too much.</p>
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I'm moving back to Africa when I'm older.
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I though you hated corruption.
What corrupt African Kleptocrat do yout call dad.
How did your daddy get his money.
Stealing Foreign Aid?
Bribes?
Warlord?</p>
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But anytime you see something said "made in china" think of the hard working people that make that item.
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I have a right and a moral duty to but the lowest cost good. </p>
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Don't shop at Wal-mart or Sam's Club bc Wal-Mart owns Sam's Club
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I love shopping at Wal-Mart</p>
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...arrgh I'm so mad
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LOL</p>
<p>You know what I think thats funny too. lol b/c thats just ignorant. :p</p>
<p>Bill<em>h</em>pike...ur post was pretty darn funny.</p>
<p>Anyways, I'm from India and don't know exactly what WalMart is apart from the fact that its a shopping place and the largest one. I mean, what makes it so special? btw is there one at Ithaca near Cornell?</p>
<p>My friend, there is next to nothing in Ithaca. It is one of the most barren places you'll see. It's a very, very pretty place, but not much to see besides its nature. But Walmart is all over the place. Ithaca probably managed to get one.</p>
<p>Wal-mart is all over America. There is one in every almost every decently sized town. I think Wal-Mart is trying to build a stare in Ithaca.</p>
<p>There was an article in The Economist a few weeks ago about Wal-mart expanding into India.</p>
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<p>You could probably find a Wal Mart in every city.</p>
<p>Wal Mart isn't in India yet? </p>
<p>Wow.</p>
<p>But Ithaca is run by communists who think the original poster is mainstream.</p>
<p>I just bought something online for $15 that normall costs $40. I'm OK with Walmart.</p>
<p>yeah, no WalMart here. But, we have our own established places like food-World and M.K Ahmed and Metro which pretty much are like Wal-Mart here</p>
<p>food-world and metro...nice....i believe i went to one of each in calcutta the past few summers</p>
<p>I like how people say Wal-Mart has sweatshops in china forcing people to work at 10 cents an hour. Wal-Mart is one of the few companies that requires the companies it buys from to have a minimum wage and sets safety standards that they must grant their workers. If they dont meet these standards wal-mart will not buy their products. They are actually helping raise the standards in 3 world countries.</p>