Ok, everyone already knows that Wal-mart and Wal-mart like stores are sucking the blood of the country. This film brings up lots of good points, but really they are just attacking the big name of an already established system that sucks. It's called 'chain stores'. Everybody pays people in China pennies to make our
crap, even small buisnesses. A friend of mine makes board games, turns hardly any profit, but still has them made in China. Does it suck? Yes. Also, I like how they play up that nobody gets paid anything to work there. It's called minimum wage, and believe me you can get that same low pay in just about any place you work at these days. And the health insurance is unaffordable in all those places too. My wife and I have college degrees and still get paid minimum wage with no health benifits. And yes, Wal-mart has lots of crime in its parking lots, but that's because there are tons of wal marts in the world and that increases the odds of crime happening in them. Hell, somebody shot someone inside the Fred Meyer down the street from where I live. I hate to shop at wal-mart. I often wonder where these 'low prices' they talk about are at, because it costs the same as everywhere else that I've seen. Truth is, nothing is more ugly than traveling across country and seeing that in every town you stop in, all the buisnesses are exactly the same: Chilis, FedEx, Papa's Pizza, Taco Bell, etc etc. There is no place for the Ma and Pop stores anymore, which super sucks because it's helping to replace buisness owners with low paid workers. STILL. This documentary is totally one sided which I hate in any documentary, even when they are right. What they didn't do is discus how the only real way that Wal-mart is flurishing is because the people in these communities shop there in the first place. So whose fault is it? Morons that shop there. They're just another animal filling a nitch to survive.
November 19, 2007
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