Why's Wal-Mart so bad?

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thread starter skyoftheants Aug 17 2009 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

I've shopped at Wal- Mart, close that I think are nice for cheap. Why do people shun Wal-Mart?

MarthIsGay 08/17/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Because it's cheap stuff; they think you're poor. idk

nooboy 08/17/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

idc... i just bought a 17" Toshiba laptop for $350 :D im not shunning them... im loving them btw its the way they treat their workers, but if they cant find a better job, why bother. technically they can be rich by just sueing them. note that not all walmarts are like this

Orchid 08/17/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Just go to the nearest Wal-Mart to my house, and you'll know.

hardballer 08/17/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

All the Wal-Marts around me are raggedy and everythings dented ripped and on the floor, crappy stores.

SASTrooper 08/17/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Treatment of workers and reluctance of work unions

KewlPerson 08/17/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

The community. Same reason for shunning runescape. Something is just off about all the shoppers at walmart.

Karamazov 08/17/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Because they ruin small businesses.

OmgPanda 08/17/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Because it's Wal-Mart. That's why it sucks, there is a reason why it's cheap and it's NOT because Wal-Mart loves you.

Nickstur89 08/17/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Because of their customer service.

Loomer 08/17/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

huge corporations are one of those things that people just LOVE to hate.

Orchid 08/17/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Loomer : huge corporations are one of those things that people just LOVE to hate. My mom complained that the small businesses around the area were going out of business because of Wal-Mart.

MarthIsGay 08/17/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Orchid : Just go to the nearest Wal-Mart to my house, and you'll know. Honey, we don't know where you live.

Loomer Aug 17 2009 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

http://karim.gnn.tv/blogs/11333/Report_The_14_Most_Evil_Corporations Wal-Mart is the biggest corporation in the world. It owns 5,100 stores worldwide and employs 1.3 million workers in the United States and 400,000 abroad, as well as millions more in the factories of its suppliers. Many people have heard of the way that Wal-Mart steamrolls its way into every possible town, destroying local supermarkets and countless small businesses. We have also heard about Wal-Mart�s long track record of worker abuse, from forced overtime to sex discrimination to illegal child labor to relentless union busting. Wal-Mart also notoriously fails to provide health insurance to over half of its employees, who are then left to rely on themselves or taxpayers, who provide for a portion of their healthcare needs through government Medicaid. Less well known is the fact that Wal-Mart maintains its low price level by allowing substandard labor conditions at the overseas factories producing most of its goods. The company continually demands lower prices from its suppliers, who, in turn, make more outrageous and abusive demands on their workers in order to meet Wal-Mart�s requirements. In September 2005, the International Labor Rights Fund filed a lawsuit on behalf of Wal-Mart supplier sweatshop workers in China, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Nicaragua and Swaziland. The workers were denied minimum wages, forced to work overtime without compensation, and were denied legally mandated health care. Other worker rights violations that have been found in foreign factories that produce goods for Wal-Mart include locked bathrooms, starvation wages, pregnancy tests, denial of access to health care, and workers being fired and blacklisted if they try to defend their rights.

skyoftheants 08/17/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

I think it's 'cause so many people shop at Abercrombie, Hollister etc. that they notice that the "out" kids shop at places like Wal-Mart because well... they're "out" or poor.