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The purpose of this film was to educate viewers and to encourage them to take action to make walmart a better corporate citizen by improving the way they treat their employees..
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Walmart's oonly legal obligation is to return the maximum profit to its shareholders. Market forces should dictate how it treats its workers.</p>
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This is liberal socialist propaganda. Period.
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Yet some people still believe it like the bible.</p>
<p>The last time I checked, the Walmart CEOs weren't putting a gun to their 'exploited employees'' heads and forcing them to work. If conditions are soooo bad, why don't the workers go to another place, or move to a 'worker's paradise' like Cuba? Or for that matter, why don't you people who hate corporatism, globalization and capitalism move to a socialist country and live in harmony?</p>
<p>Instead of Wal*Mart, we should have a common storehouse system similar to the one at Jamestown where people enter the store house and take what they need. It surely worked well in Jamestown.</p>
<p>Walmart is the American Dream realized.... </p>
<p>Walmart helps curb inflation by keeping prices lower... why all the Walmart hate? It's a capitalistic country we live in</p>
<p>this is about as unbiased as Fahrenheit 9/11....... i'll leave it at that.</p>
<p>Wal*Mart = GOOD</p>
<p>Walmart is good for buying a lot of stuff you need around the house. Skip it for clothes, music, movies or sports equipment, however.</p>
<p>Yeah, I gotta say you have to keep WalMart for some stuff. Where else am I supposed to get my late-night glowsticks?</p>
<p>I have to admit...Walmart has saved me many times when I had to bring some food in for class or buying some materials for projects...all at the last minute of course.</p>
<p>Exactly. It's the only store open 24 hours a day here.</p>
<p>What would I do without Walmart...</p>
<p>Drink Scotch?</p>
<p>I was thinking Vodka and orange juice...j/k</p>
<p>Am I a loser for thinking chocolate milk?</p>
<p>No...you're not. I myself like hot cocoa anytime of the year...now that's a loser.</p>
<p>Even in the summer? How in the world can you stand hot chocolate in the summer?</p>
<p>I know...it makes no sense. Some people are addicted to coffee, but I am addicted to hot cocoa. Cocoa is just one of those year round things for me...</p>
<p>It is just so good!</p>
<p>walmart... fck yeah! america... fck yeah!</p>
<p>Swiss Miss Cocoa from Walmart isn't too bad..</p>
<p>For starters, bill<em>whatever</em>the<em>rest</em>of<em>your</em>handle_is, at last review, the continent of Africa had a population of, I don't know, ginormous proportions. What makes you think this individual's father is some aid-siphoning mid-level bureaucrat? For all you know, the OP could be the child of a Dutch Red Cross worker. Really, what a crass comment. </p>
<p>Moving back to the OPs concern, Wal-Mart's operating procedures are not exactly comparable to those of a company like, say, IKEA. However, since THCOLP was financed predominantly by SEIU, it is probably not the most objective source of information on the matter. Wal-Mart has begun to respond to public pressure, has started to use more green production practices, and even set quotas for women to be moved into managerial positions. As consumers, we should hold all companies to the highest of standards. Part of that, however, is rewarding those companies when they attempt to improve themselves. Boycotting Wal-Mart altogether will probably not be as productive at this point as some unions would have you believe.</p>
<p>However, I will say that I am pleased to see the legislation that went through Maryland recently. I would be happy to see it enacted in CT. I would be even happier, though, if it weren't necessary.</p>