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Originally Posted by bwind22
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices
I've always hated Wal-Mart for the way they conduct their business (moving in to small towns and utterly crushing the local competition right out of business with their sweatshop low prices) so I really didn't need to watch this to figure out any new reasons to hate Wal-Mart, but this is an EXCELLENT documentary! EXCELLENT. If you're a Wal-Mart shopper, watch this & you won't be. This film basically covers everything.... From how Wal-Mart deliberately runs small stores out of business, to how their corporate management openly discriminates against women and minorities, to how they pollute without regard while claiming to be environmentally conscious, to how they operate their sweatshops in Bangladesh & China (and fire American employees they send to the sweatshops to report on conditions when they report something that Wal-Mart doesn't like), to how they vehemently refuse any possibility of a worker's union, to how they claim to take care of their employees while paying them less than a livable income and terrible helath coverage (Wal-Mart actually TELLS their employees to use state sponsored health programs, WIC & welfare instead of just offering better benefits to them.), to how the Walton family (owners) donated a whopping less than 1% of their combined wealth (of over 100 billion dollars) to charity (By comparison, Bill Gates donated 58% of his wealth to charity) to how they train their store managers to actually go into the computer systems and delete worker's over time or shuffle it ahead to the next week.
I fancy myself pretty well informed on Wal-Mart's dirty deeds but I still learned a lot from this documentary and I highly suggest that you do too. See this before you set foot in to a Wal-Mart (or Sams Club. Same ownership.)
In all, this is probably one of the best documentary's I've ever seen & I wish there was a way that I could make every single person in this country watch it.
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Anyone else seen this Wal-Mart documentary?
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Yep, brilliant doc-filmmaking.
It did a good job of showing not only the political issues, but focusing in on the moral issues, showed us just how this corporation has damaged so many lives, both American and otherwise.
The film actually made me stop shopping at Wal-Mart. It was that effective. Glad to see someone else has seen it and got something out of it.