Is wal-mart good for us?
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No.\n\nDifference between my answer and the answer above?  Above = short term perspective.  Below = long term perspective.
380240
Yes it is good, some one working at a fast food outlet is unlikely to be able to do the job of a surgeon, not properly anyway.
507048
Walmart where our prices are as low as our opinion of women
396475
Walmart is truly an equal opportunity employer.  They hire all faiths, colors, cultures, the handicapped, the aged.\n\nMany other "equal opportunity employers" pick and choose who is equal in their own minds.
1166395
did you try Walmart???
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I guess Walmart has the same problem as concerned consumers who try to buy American made whenever possible.\n\nthere is a dwindling list of available products!  American companies are using cheap foreign labor to cut costs of production.  Even they won't make it in America!\n\nExample:  One brand I would buy at Walmart was Jerzees.  Made in America.  I bought a sweat shirt last week.  The label "Made in Mexico"  Walmart is not the only corporation selling out America. \n\nThe consumer doesn't have much choice anymore. American made is just too scarce.  Congress will figure out this is not good about 10 years from now and start trying to patch it up......but it will be too late.\n\nUntil then, Americans will support child labor, poor working conditions and substandard wages for everyone in the world EXCEPT us.....we want everyone to be middle class at the very least no matter what their work habits are, no matter what education level they achieve.
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No I believe not! If you are talking about Pyramidal schemes like Amway or Quixtar, then unless you are among the top people, you really dont make anything and waste time in Walmarts and Targets trying to get a scapegoat into your trap. Marketing is about understanding the customer and working with them directly rather than pyramidally. I see no good come out of MLM schemes.
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I don't think the problem is that people think Walmart is bad for the country in general, but more on a local level. In my area there has been opposition to new Walmarts based upon how it will affect the traffic flow and congestion in the area. \nThe old argument that they will put "downtowns" and smaller local businesses out is I believe a foregone conclusion. Most downtowns have eroded years ago, and  the local businesses have been replaced by national chains, and they're in malls.\nOne of the biggest problems has been that Walmart becomes a major employer in their area, and that the employees were being shorted in benefits, hours and pay, but those issues are being addressed.
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Wal Mart is a healthy corporation with retail roots all over the world. It has advanced, built and opened retail outlets at a dizzying rate. K Mart has gone thru bankruptcy, re-orgainzation and has had many of its pricipal suppliers leave for green pastures. K Mart was originally the Kresgee Dime store chain and was fantastic for its day. It basically beat the Woolworth chain out of busines but it has suffered dramatically in recent years. \nWal Mart is the best place to shop in American, for now.
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wal mart has lowlow prices for all your conventional needs at least thats what the back of the truck says, and also walmart has a smiley face that always is fun :-):-)and they have a girl smiley and a boy smiley\n\nmijer is great for school because it has awsome suplies for low prices and also if you go in the self check out line you get a free cupon that is worth 100 box tops with your receipt.\n\nbut personally i think its wal mart because it has all of the stuff that kids like(ex:yu-gi-oh tcg cards, video games, movies, etc.)mijer also has yugioh cards and everything like that but wal mart has more
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I donot know anyone personally who doesnot shop there, but I do know the people who donot shop there, dosenot for the reason that Walmart makes billions of dollars and have, really, no health benefits at all. They work for a company that makes so much but literally pay their employees NOTHING. You have a better plan working for Target or K-Mart. That is why a lot of little towns don't want a Walmart coming to their neighborhoods. That and because they are crushing the little Mom and Pop shops, causing more unemployment. Especially if you live somewhere that has about 3 of them with in a 5 mile radius of each other.
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I "avoid" Wal-Mart because I don't like their business practices.  I don't boycott it completely, simply because I can't (where I live).  But I did use to live in a larger city, and I never stepped foot in it there.
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Absolutely not.\n\nhttp://www.walmartmovie.com/\n\nYou want an explaination - go to that site and get a copy of that movie. You will never shop at Wal-Mart again.\n\nWal-Mart does not create jobs - it creates more cases of unemployement. It forces other businesses, especially locally owned businesses, to close because they cannot compete with Wal-Mart. Sure, they hire a bunch of people when a store opens, but because they are putting other businesses out of business the unemployement rate stays the same.\n\nAnd a local business cannot just lower their prices to compete with Wal-Mart. It's not that easy. Wal-Mart gets HUGE government funding to build their stores and keep their business running, but the little guy, the small business owner isn't allowed such luxuries.\n\nWal-Mart has also been very bad about hiring illegal immigrants - taking jobs away from American citizen living in communities. And whatever you've been told - not all Walmart products are made in the U.S.A. They pay a lot of Chinese workers next to nothing to produce goods for their stores.\n\nAnd did you know... there is an employee emergency relief fund that Wal-Mart has created for their employees and their employees have given MILLIONS of dollars to this fund, but the owners of Wal-Mart, the Waltons, who are billionaires, gave only $6,000 in one year.\n\nMost Wal-Mart employees are not well paid. Most of them can't even afford to enroll in the company's health insurance program. What does Wal-Mart tell them to do? They are refered to government funded programs. So the taxes you pay from your job help Wal-Mart employees get health care - it sounds noble and all, but it is money that could be spent on more important things like education, but since Wal-Mart doesn't want to give their employees affordable health care the American public pays for it instead.\n\nThese are just a few reasons.\n\nhttp://www.walmartmovie.com/\n\nWatch it.\n\nWal-Mart was NOT made by a black guy and why would that make it any better or worse?
416649
Yes. You can get anything you want at walmart. They have everything.
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Walmart has it in their catalogue.
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Bottom line MONEY.  The UFCW will tell you time and time again it's for the benefit of the Walmart employees, but that's a blatant lie.  It's for the benefit of the UFCW management.\n\nIf WalMart Employees wanted a union, they could form a powerful union on their own.  The major problem with this issue, if you increase costs to Walmart, you increase prices of products, you reduce your market share, and then the jobs start going away.  That's probably the reality the Walmart Employees understand.
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toys r us is good for toys\n\n:> peace\n.