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Originally posted by Coramoor
Half the people that work there would be on gov't aid regardless.
Outsourcing is also going to happen. It's not like Wal-mart created the desire to manufacture more for less money. Any business man would rather pay someone in China a dollar a day to make a product as opposed to $40 an hour to lazy union workers in the US.
If you think the products are cheap, don't buy them. If something is that bad, a rival's product will take over that sector of the market. Bad products just don't make it.
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Isn't Wal-Mart notorious for treating their employees like shit? Not paying their over-time and not giving them breaks? I've been in Wal-Mart before and I have seen Salvation Army thrift stores that are being better maintained. One big thing here (Michigan) is that Wal-Mart is a newer chain in the market. We just got our first one in the area about 10 or 12 years ago.
Price fixing is a big thing that wal-mart likes to do. Their prices are lower than all of the competitors, driving them to go out of business. Once the competition is gone, wal-mart raises their prices sometimes to the point where they are more expensive than what the non-existant competitor was.