Thread: ‘Behemoth chain’ store practices immoral labor

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‘Behemoth chain’ store practices immoral labor relations; challenges personal values
Guest Opinion
Article published on Friday, June 10th, 2005
By Richard Ross

For the last several years, Wal-Mart has been the FORTUNE 500’s largest company, beating out the likes of Exxon-Mobil, General Motors and General Electric. Wal-Mart’s TV ads used to stress low prices; little happy faces smashed already low prices to reveal even bigger savings to consumers looking for cheap goods and trinkets.

Today I am noticing something rather odd â€â€

There has been testimony from former employees that it was sometimes so hard to get a break that cashiers urinated on themselves. The list of grievances is long and varied.

This is really sick. You have to be terrified of losing your job or have incredibly low self esteem to resort to this. It is not only sick, it is sad and pathetic.

But what about the rest of the world? To my way of thinking, it starts to become a moral issue. When I think of the vast wealth being made by the shareholders and family inheritors, and the fact that it’s being made on the backs of their workers and the taxpayers of this country, I am greatly offended.

Welcome to the club. I hate Wally World and avoid it at all costs. They are selling us down the river buying cheap crap from China, arming our enemies, shafting their employees, running decent small businesses out of business. The list is endless. Yes they sell goods cheap, but they sell them to people who can't afford anything better because they are out of jobs because Wal Mart put their little manufacturing plant or distributorship out of business and now they have to work at McDonalds. It is a story that is repeated over and over. I know because I have seen it first hand.

I lend money to manufacturers and distributors, and they have been cratering by the thousands for years now because WalMart sources goods overseas and will not buy from a small company. They are on the long list of traitor companies who are selling this country out for a higher stock price. They are greedy, insolent, and ruthless and don't think for a minute they are not. Do your patriotic duty and boycott them!

Let's boycott every sell out company and all goods made in China, Mexico, et. al. as much as possible.