The Wal-Mart Movie:The High Cost of Low Price
Everyone has seen Wal-Mart’s lavish television commercials, but have you ever wondered why Wal-Mart spends so much money trying to convince you it cares about your family, your community, and even its own employees? What is it hiding?
WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price takes you behind the glitz and into the real lives of workers and their families, business owners and their communities, in an extraordinary journey that will challenge the way you think, feel… and shop.
Saw this today, and it is well worth viewing. I doubt I’ll ever shop at a Wal-Mart again after watching it. The five main Wal-Mart inheritors collect $18 BILLION a piece every year, yet contribute almost nothing to charity and let employees survive on minimum wage and public assistance. Those items you buy at Wal-Mart are made by sweat-shop workers in China, who must live in Wal-Mart dorms or be charged rent for the dorm from their wages anyway. The conditions are squalid. And this is repeated in WalMart factories world wide, while Wal-Mart’s owners reside in huge mansions and have a guarded bunker ready just in case they need to bug out for any reason.
The damage continues through small towns destroyed by Wal-Mart stores, which then move on to other areas before having to pay taxes to the communities that gave them subsidies to get them to locate stores there, suppliers destroyed by constantly having to lower their prices, customers raped, murdered, and robbed in unprotected Wal-Mart parking lots, often only a few feet away from store entrances. workers forced to work unpaid overtime and harrassed for trying to start union activity, etc. etc…..
You can find a screening in your area here:
http://www.walmartmovie.com/find.php
or purchase the movie here:
http://www.walmartmovie.com/watch.php
Wal-Mart fact sheet here:
http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/facts/
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