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Originally Posted by StMark
I've read and heard stuff about how we shouldn't shop at Wal-Mart with various reasons why....
Here's some of the reasons I've heard about why I should not shop at Wal-Mart:
- they treat employees poorly
- they are responsible for poor working conditions and child labor/sweat shops in 3rd world and developing countries
- they have destroyed American towns and commerce (mom-n-pop shops)
- they represent everything that is ugly about America
What are your thoughts?
Do you shop at Wal mart??
Is there anything that would stop you from shopping there ?
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my wife does shop in our local Walmarts. I shop there for camping supplies and occassionally for oil change or light automotive supplies.
I can not find agreement with any of the listed concerns. Walmart is one of the only 'under 12.00/hr' employers that have a benefits package and a real track for vertical movement from the employee ranks.
the one point I am greived by relates to:
- they are responsible for poor working conditions and child labor/sweat shops in 3rd world and developing countries
BY NO MEANS are they RESPONSIBLE, but they are a SIGNIFICANT ENABLER of the autrocities that the Chinese central government extorts from their weakest citizens. If our middle-class moms could be fully aware of the circumstances surrounding the workers who produce the products they consume, I think more of the economic boom funding the Chinese empire's expansion, would reach the families that do the work.
Is Walmart to blame for where they buy their merchandise? I do not think so. They have built an entire corporate mantra on "buy for less". I believe the corpporate buyers do have vast, untapped influence, but unitl the American conventional wisdom links the environment of the producers with the purchaser's decision-making, why would Walmart stir up contention?
It would be a foolish mode for a 'for-profit' corporation to find itself in....as moral crusaders where their own customers are fully disengaged.
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