Comments on: Wal*Mart Strikes Again!

by: Stanford Matthews

Fri, 20 Oct 2024 01:04:32 +0000

The Sam Walton portion of the story is portrayed as another episode of the American Dream. It may be. In my town, the first Wal-Mart had signs plastered all over the store displaying “American Made”. That was good until you looked at the labels. I left. It might have been 60 Minutes or a similar program who first outted the foreign sweat shops fostered by Wal-Mart. If true, I found it disturbing. Like most kings of the hill there are many bad stories about Wal-Mart. But if they are burying the competition fairly, by just doing better, I can’t condemn it, but I don’t have to like it. But then, I don’t shop at Wal-Mart and never have, save a short period when my daughter convinced me to try Sam’s Club. That didn’t last.
You shouldn’t hate Wal-Mart, but you can still find some of their practices as less than sporting.

by: Rob M

Fri, 20 Oct 2024 00:19:05 +0000

I hate walmart. I support higher prices and more waste of resources.

Hold on. Never mind.

by: Talmadge East

Thu, 19 Oct 2024 23:39:16 +0000

The problem you should have with Wal-Mart is that they feed of most of their employees like a vulture.

by: MSS

Thu, 19 Oct 2024 21:28:01 +0000

As someone on the production side (not drugs, but organic produce), I loathe Walmart. They are known for their predatory purchasing practices, and the organic industry is not exactly cheering that Walmart is jumping on our bandwagon. Sure, more consumers buying organic is what we all want. But the giant buyer–buying only from giant producers and forcing prices way down–could put a lot of existing smaller and more dedicated organic producers out of business. The organic standards themselves could be watered down.

I say, buy LOCAL produce, preferably also organic. But always LOCAL, whenever you can!