Walmart: the high cost of low prices

Have any of y'all seen Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices?

Its really fucked up...I saw the documentary a few days ago on PayPerView...Walmart has so much power its unbeliveable...I know that yes most people already know how Walmart is powerful or evil but when you put ALL the reasons as to why out on the table -- many towns and cities are destroyed by the Walmart machine...We have a grocery store called Golden Dawn and they're losing a lot of money to Walmart. Golden Dawn is a small grocery store and they can't compete with them...Our local mall is slowly being killed...Its holiday shopping season and when I was at the mall it was completely dead...not a lot of shoppers...As I left the mall we noticed the plethora of cars still going into WLMT...fucking twisted....

 

I've never seen this movie. Now that i've said that i'm going to give my opinion, and what not.

We have a Wal-Mart, and small Grocery store in our town. Pic-N-Sav is the name. It does just fine. I think the prices are about the same as Wal-Mart's.

Yes major corporations do suck, but if Wal-Mart immediately was shut down, bankrupt, and what not. K-Mart would probably be the new Wal-Mart, or any other store that does grocery's, clothes, electronics, and the same other things. If it's not one place it's another.

Though that's not exscuse to let them continue. Take it down, and then take the next one down that springs up.

The only problem is either people are to blind to see all this, or they don't give a crap. The majority probably dosen't give a crap. I personally haven't heard of anything trying to protest this major corporation. It seems people are fine with it for right now. I don't know. Hmm.

 

Yes I agree. At the end of the movie it had some protesters (where Walmart tried to be in their city/town and people formed groups and actually stopped it from happening...It was probably wise to end the documentary with a hopeful note, the rest is such a downer....I'm not certain but the people who stop it from be built are probably a small minority of cases...The people here in my town, for example, couldn't care less about the high cost of low prices...

 

I seen this movie, a student teacher a couple years ago had us watch it and then they did a "mini study" where the kids took where so many items of clothing were made...it was mostly korea.
I forgot to get where my clothes were made, because instead I wrote an article about it. It ammuses me. The whole thing did. Sure I was aggitated as anyone is with some of the stuff they were proving or pulling out of the information they had. But at the same time people who were against putting wal-mart in their hometown were talking about freedom to buy supplies at a price they found satisfying but turned around and criticized the companies for doing the same thing....
not saying child labor is right, not at all. I am deffinetly against them, but it is almost too human for a company to do it just like any regular every day consumer would.

 

Corporations as an entity are legally considered people in the USA you know. Not sayn' I agree with it.