The wonderful world of Walmart.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hftb_DVuelo

In my entire life, I have spent less than $2.00 at a Wal-Mart, and that was years ago. Our family owns two farms in Colorado, plus we operate two business that sell wholesale only, with distributors in the USA, South America, Mexico, and Canada. In Europe, Far East and Africa we sell direct to our customers. We purchase absolutely, positively, nothing, zero, nada, zilch, not one red cent from Communist China's best American ally =Wal-Mart. - Millet (596-)

WOW, I just watched the longest video I ever clicked on - ALL of it. I hate Walmart more now than ever. Thanks for posting this Laaz. I gotta see if I can FWD this to my email buddies to open their eyes.
I wasn't too aware of those poor overworked Chinese employees.
Whole thing.....sad story.

What's the problem with Wal-Mart? We don't have any Wal-Marts here, so I don't know anything about it...

Marc, click on the link Laaz posted & watch the video.

Walmart is also good at driving their suppliers out of business by forcing them to give a below wholesale rate to Walmart. I try to educate people on Walmart when I get a chance but some people just thing that the cheaper the product the better - although this documentary helps to illuminate the at least one of the costs associated with their cheap prices.

I avoid it like the plague, although without Walmart we wouldn't have the hilarious website of the people of Walmart.

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

The problem with Wal-Mart (and this problem isn't exclusive to Wal-Mart) is that they're so focused on selling cheap stuff. Like Stephen Colbert says, America wants its $12 bag of tube socks and we don't care who we have to step on to get them. But we don't think about who loses out when stuff gets made cheap. The materials cost as much as the expensive stuff (maybe a bit less, since you're using crappy materials), and the CEOs are certainly not going to be taking a pay cut. What's left to cut is pay and working conditions for the workers.

SOMEONE pays a price when we buy stuff cheap. Actually, we also pay a price, because what we buy is inevitably not made as well, and won't last as long. I have a $100+ pair of sneakers that I've probably saved money by buying, because they've lasted so long and I haven't had to buy replacements for them every few years like I would with cheap shoes. Also, they look awesome.

That having been said, I can't imagine shopping at Wal-Mart -- not because they're evil, but because the stores are so huge and run down and confusing. I went in once looking for oven mitts, and in a half hour and asking three people, I never found them.