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Originally posted by SurfDog
WalMart doesn't make their employees work there - they can go and work whereever they want. It's absolutely the best operation around - for the public and for the employees. Where else would these people be working? McDonalds?
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Let's assume, in a parallel universe where walmart doesn't exist, an unemployed man spends 5 dollars more by shopping at mom and pop's.
Now let's assume in our universe, that same unemployed man saves 5 bucks shopping at walmart, however his neighbor just lost a 600 dollar a week manufacturing job that was exported to another country. Further down the road, ms. joeblow lost her part time clerk job at mom and pop's which payed 400 bucks a week. She now has to work at walmart as a peon slave tool for 350.
Getting the picture yet? The low prices are an illusion, the long term net effect of corporations like walmart are in every way distructive to the economy and the country.