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Originally Posted by xmas13
Walmart is BAD.
They offer very low prices but:
- Very low wages, and lots of people work there part-time.
- They are killing US manufacturing, and hire 10 year old kids to make t-shirts in Bangladesh.
- They cheat the US government out of taxes.
- They are a monopoly in many areas, anti-competition, anti-union.
- Such low prices encourage waste of natural resources.
It's evil trying to get the cheapest at any cost.
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If you shop at ANY big box retailer you're dealing with the same thing.
You think Sears and Target pay union wages and benefits to their employees? You think they're not buying shit from China?
Wal-Mart gets all the bad press because they're the biggest, but they're no different than any other major company in the retail sector.
Unless you only buy things from local mom and pop stores and local farmers, you're in some way contributing to the exploitation of other human beings.
Welcome to capitalism.