what is the reason that wal _mart  has low price ?
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Because 90% of what they sell is made in China and most of their employees only make minimum wage.
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Last I heard, Sam's was owned by Wal-Mart. Maybe even Costco, too.\n\nPoint is, in order to be a monopoly, Wal-Mart would have to be the ONLY provider of goods and services, unique to them and nobody else, and it must be determined by courts to be in the best interest of the people for the establishment to be considered a monopoly. \n\nwhew!\n\nThe only point I can see that MAY even be considered for contention would be their "monopoly" on low prices. This holds no water, however, for throughout the history of retailing, competitive pricing has ALWAYS been a strategic factor.
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Wal-Mart needs to take its own share of responsibility for the workforce it hires and to the communities around where it builds.  To date, it does neither.\n\nSure, Wal-Mart supplies cheap goods to the middle class.  But, at what a cost?  They do hire lots of people, but they don't treat those people properly.  Much of Wal-Mart's workforce can't even afford the health insurance they offer on what they get paid.  Even Wal-Mart's CEO has stated that the 'free' healthcare systems may offer better coverage than Wal-Mart's plans.  Only Wal-Mart can get away with shoving off their employee's health concerns to the state and local free healthcare system.\n\nWhat people need to realize is the difference between what Wal-Mart sells and how they operate their business.  While Wal-Mart does offer good deals on items, the way they operate their business is separate from the goods they sell.  So, as a discriminating consumer, you have to diffentiate between Wal-Mart the corporation (with shady business tactics) and Wal-Mart the store (out to sell discount items)... it's basically two different things (although still connected).  While I agree we need discount stores, we don't need corporations willing to do anything to make a buck even at the expense of other businesses, workers and the local economy.\n\nCorporate Wal-Mart decides where stores are to be built and how to manage all of the details around procurement of the land, building, construction details and stocking the stores (including tax abatement and various other incentives to get them to build there).  After the store is built, however, then it's operated by the store manager who tries to do the right thing (obviously directed by regional directors and corporate HQ).  Likely most, if not all, of the not-so-savory ways of doing business are handed down by corporate WM and not by the stores or the store managers.
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"Wal-Mart is a threat to your job, wages and benefits. It is a threat to working America 's standard of living. Wal-Mart employs more people than any company in America - with 1.4 million employees and profits of over $10 billion last year. Wal-Mart's low-wages and inadequate benefits drag down wages and conditions for all working Americans. Now, Wal-Mart has set its sights on the supermarket industry. With their new Neighborhood Markets, Wal-Mart is out to turn good jobs with good benefits into low-wage jobs with inadequate benefits. \n\nWAL-MART DESTROYS JOBS: Wal-Mart doesn't create jobs, it destroys them. Studies show that for every two jobs created by a Wal-Mart store, the community loses three. Local businesses are destroyed and community living standards get lowered when Wal-Mart moves into the neighborhood.\n\nWAL-MART LOWERS WAGES: Wal-Mart workers make an average of $3 per hour less than \nunion supermarket jobs, $2 per hour less than all supermarket jobs and $1 per hour less than the \naverage retail wage. An average Wal-Mart employee makes about $11,700 a year (working 30 \nhour weeks) -nearly $2,000 below the poverty line for a single mother with two children. Read \nthe Report Everyday Low Wages -The Hidden Price that We All Pay For Wal-Mart\n. \nWAL-MART'S HEALTH COVERAGE LEAVES MOST WORKERS UNCOVERED: Over \n425,000 Wal-Mart employees, most of them women, have no health coverage. Only 38% of \nWal-Mart employees - as compared with a national average of more than 60% - have company- \nprovided health coverage. An executive bragged that Wal-Mart is able to shift the cost of \ninsuring its employees to taxpayers - admitting that many Wal-Mart workers get their health care \nbenefits from state or federal government programs\n. A typical store with 200 employees would \ncost taxpayes $420,750 a year. \nWAL-MART WAGES WAR ON WOMEN WORKERS: Juries have awarded millions of \ndollars to Wal-Mart women workers who have filed harassment and discrimination claims \nagainst the retail giant. \nWAL-MART'S PHONY "BUY AMERICA " PROGRAM DISHONORS THE FLAG: Wal- \nMart's massive "Buy American" advertising program lures customers with the promise of selling \napparel products made by American workers. Less than 20 percent of all clothing sold in Wal- \nMart is labeled "Made in USA ."
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typically walmart's the cheapest, but you have to do proper research, sometime you get much better deals at local stores, kmart or shopko
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I totally agree. I got an awesome pair from Best Buy and they were only ten dollars. Wal*Marts are trash!
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High Supply, Low demand = Lower Price\n\nLow Supply and High demand = High Price\n\nSimple economics.  Our gas prices work this way too.. Very few refineries to refine gas, which causes lower supplies.
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Walmart has everything, at everyday low prices
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It's a bad idea.  Yet it makes a great point in alerting the public to a corporate structure that seems to be taking over every country it can gain access to.  Perhaps Wal-mart is owned by the government & they just want it to look like a private enterprise?  Things that make ya go hmmm!  :o)
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Check you local newspapers and craigslist.org\nIf that doesn't work try ebay. Wal-Mart always low prices lol
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Around 24 bucks at walmart
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I think it has to do with a "david vs. goliath" ideology.  Everyone wants to see the little guy prevail, this includes all retail stores except wal-mart.  It's also easy to parody because wal-mart is saturated the US marketplace, where other retail stores haven't gone coast to coast, or global for that matter, yet.
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I can't say that I actually hate walmart, however, I don't like some of the policies they have. It's convenient for me to shop there, because in my town, we don't have very many department stores to choose from. Trust me, if another large chain would happen to come here, I'd shop there. We do have a Meijer Store, but their prices are higher on many things.
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I would invest in Wal-Mart.  They have the lowest prices in the retail sales market.  They are expanding at record speeds and have excellent benefits for their employees.  I actually work at Wal-Mart and I love the place so much that I won't shop anywhere else.
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I don't shop at Walmart. They pay low wages, treat their employees poorly in America and in their factories in China. Also most of their products are made overseas which means outsourcing of American jobs. Walmart is bad news for the American Economy. Yeah you get low prices because employees get low wages, poor or no health care, Chinese labors get a scant wage. The phrase "Walmartization of America" or "Walmartizing America" is being used to tell of the negative effects Walmart is having on our economy. Check out the internet. This is one bad company.
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Well, you know what, I think that Walmart's store is pretty cheap then! Only $0.79 per download. But you won't find much cheaper, unless you do a pay per month, which you don't want to do. You can download unlimited for 2 times less than a full gas fill up at the station! And, that's in one month time, for UNLIMITED downloads!
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JUST ON THE LINK YOU PROVIDED.AND I SEEN IT AT WAL-MART FOR 100.00