who believes that wal-mart uses slave labor in china, and that's why they are so much cheaper?
608555
walmart uses slave labour, but do u seriously think that abercrombie and fitch doesnt?
78975
Part of it has to due with their huge population. A lot of jobs have been outsourced to China because they can make it cheaper because they don't have things like a minimum wage like America. Therefore they can always "find someone else" to fill a job.
141651
If you are able too fiqure out fact from fiction/spin from hype and be able to accurately read between the lines, I was able read that our leadership,China,India and cheap labor will continue to lower the standard of living in America and the people on the bottom of our economic society will be on the frontline paying with there lives via Poverty stricken,starvation,disease,fda. approvals in the food source that poison,military frontline activity etc.Also that the poor in this country is much larger than being acknowledge plus rapidly growing meanwhile, totally ignored by ALL the Washington insiders on both sides of the isle!The major oil companies still rule and Bush is there Go-boy! They are saying to hell with UAW and the Great lake area industries that once where tops in the industry worldwide,China is buying more oil than ever before! So now because we are global competitors our dumbass lawmakers are going to allow more trade inbalence by allowing China's automobile sales in USA! Get smart public boycott Walmart!
773551
I've seen it and it is pretty disturbing.  Most of the stuff in Wal-Mart is cheap Chinese garbage, so I won't shop there any more just for that reason.  The last time I bought a coffeemaker which promptly fell apart and I decided my time was worth more than the hours spent taking the crap back and standing in the returns line forever.\n\nThere is a new Wal-Mart that opened up about 8 miles from me and I am considering making up a whole lot of small signs that say "Made in China by Forced Slave Labor" and putting these things all over the store.  \n\nI hate that place with a passion.
340992
It's got nothing to do with communism, but with international trade barriers. China has got lots of people who are willing to work for $2 a month, compare that to the US! And in Europe the FORMER communist states like Poland have very cheap labor service too. So it's not amazing that the USA who is CAPITALIST moves out their business to places that have CHEAP labor.
422648
It wasn't.  Clinton inherited a clean slate from his predecessor.  The next time go to WalMart and see everthing there made in China, thank BJ Clinton. He made the godless Chinese "most favored trading partners".  He sent your jobs to Mexico(NAFTA), he anmestied 93,000 illegal Mexicans (letting them keep the US jobs they'd already stolen), encouraging the present flood of criminal entrants.
3121
its a hard question you ask. they hire lots of people at low wages, but they provide a great service: cheap goods. but these goods are made in other countries, mainly China. i think i would rather pay slightly higher prices for stuff made in america, so i will vote that Wal-Mart is bad
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Good- MAJOR employer, good wages, good diversity hiring policy for minorities, American success story, great low prices, open 24 hrs, one stop shopping. Very respectable employee discount.\n\nBad- recently sued by ppl trying to keep them from gobbling up and destroying their neighborhoods by their saturation scheme of "wal-marts everywhere". Recently sued by women as a class-action suit for their "glass ceiling" of limited advancement and lower wages compared to males in exact same jobs. \nThey throw away books, by tearing off the covers, turning the covers in as "remainders" for credit from the publishers, and just throwing away the bodies of the books.\nThe throw away more in a single day than most people could eat or use in a lifetime. \nTheir price "rollbacks" are hiding the costs by moving them around- raising prices on some items to reduce them on others.\nThey micromanage- having too many assistant managers, dept managers, etc. In some cases 2 different managers will tell you to do opposite things. "manager" is a title thrown around that has little meaning, it's purpose is to get employees to care about their job, but they don't really have any voice or say in it.\nPromised bonus of $200 for making an inventory goal was reduced to $93.15 by the time it reached employee hands.\n\nUGLY- the Waltons (owners) are among the top 20 richest people in the United States, making the Forbes Richie list every year. And they've left Sam Walton's dream far behind.\n\nThey are now using their own TV channel for advertising, to bombard shoppers WHO ARE ALREADY IN THE STORE with constant ads. \nWal-Mart has gone corporate in the worst way, and moved from caring about the American Worker to exploiting the American consumer. They say "no one puts a gun to your head and forces you to shop there." But what would you call it if a major chain like Wal-Mart can move into an area and run all the mom-&-pop operations out of business because they can't compete with the juggernaut?\n\nWalmart is the American Dream turned dark, ugly, and sour.
80846
Cause poor people from states that vote for Republicans go to wal mart and buy stuff that is made in China.\n\nThats a smart @ss answer, but essentially,  up until about a month ago I was all oh my gosh China is the enemy.\n\nChina just wants to sell America goods cause it makes them money.\nThey have a problem in that their one child policy is going to cause a shift in population to where they have a lot of elderly.\n\nEssentially the same thing here, with the baby boomers about to suck off social security.\n\nChina has a big air force,  and they are the second largest nation that is a consumer of oil on the world market, but . .\nthe biggest buyer of Chinese goods on the world stage is the United States.\n\nSo you say what about that they own 350 billion of US debt?\n\nTo that I say, I voted for Kerry who would have raised taxes reducing our need to borrow from foreign entities.\n\nIn short, stop being an @ss yourself and playing the liberal bad conservative good game.\n\nIts politically fashionable to say o no the President is selling these ports to the arabs, have you jumped on that bandwagon too?\n\nI'm defending the President on this.  Its a private transaction to sell the management not the security of the port to a firm.\n\nKuwait and Dubai own stock in Chrysler, but no one freaks out over that ownership.
905742
Yes, becaue Wal-Mart is the devil. They mistreat their employees. Because of this the employees are rude to customers. Plus WM takes away from small businesses. I never go there no matter how good their prices. I like to maintain my quality of life and fighting my way through aisles of welfare families isn't my idea of a good time.
610775
American Corporation has moved their company's over to China for "Cheap Labor," To my understanding doesn't freight cost more to ship over seas, or even on a cargo plane? To me it seems that the Corporations should be loosing money. Then there's "Cheap Labor," Mexicans, Would get paid less then the average Joe, The problem here is pure simple Greed. Greed from the Government for not in forcing laws, and Pure Greed from Corporations. There wallets are getting fatter, while I have no Idea where or if I will have a Job next year?\n\nThe reason Why most Americans won't do the jobs is the number one reason "Cost of Living" Everything has gone up but not our pay. There is no way that we could survive on so little. WE are Americans We would not get any Help From the Government, So therefore; that's is why.
886136
I really seriously doubt that Walmart ,THE BIGGEST RETAIL COMPANY IN THE WORLD, would ever do anything like that. All they care about is money, money, money and dropping the prices to what they were 20 years ago would cause them to lose precious money. Sure, some things cost a lot more then than they do now, but some things were cheaper then and dropping those things to the prices of 20 years ago would make them lose money. Think about it.
1083582
This guy's actually got a point. I'm not so sure on the specifics of any yahoo involvement, but I do know for certain that the Chinese government is very oppressive to anyone who questions its motives or policies. Instances may have tailed off over recent years, but beatings and torture are still a regular part of protocol there. America simply chooses to ignore it because we're more concerned with preserving our good economic relations with China, even though a lot of the cheap labor we outsource there is indeed done by slaves. We really should wake up and start seeing the truth.
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:}\nif this address materialism in general\nThen I think all companies that use Christianity soly for economic reasons are wrong, that would include walmart.\n\nIf you think walmart is the only company that would use Christianity to economic advantage I think you are wrong\n\nand no I do not believe that Walmart will control all buying or even a significant portion of it.
2236
Its because the American worker gets paid to much. Companies have nothing left to put into the actual product. Bring backed forced labor camps and quality will skyrocket.
838645
Child labor is abhorrent. But it will continue as long as we (mostly Americans who are consumers extraordinaire) create a demand for cheap products that we can buy at WalMart for "low prices - everyday". \nThink about who actually made that crummy lava lamp you just bought - probably some ten-year-old child chained to a work table for 12-14 hours a day.              -RKO-
119242
Because they use Slave Labor..Very Low Wages overseas..NO UNIONS..No High Over Head.. but it all makes Wal-Mart Happy!!  Buy American when you can!! But even then the American Companies send out products to Mexico to be built s ya never know!!