Review of Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005) by Tonypolito — 17 Nov 2010

This film proves that, if the good 'ol boys from Bentonville have their way, the world will be a bleak prison for the rest of the human race - which they apparently regard with quite a bit of contempt.

Some of the facts in this film will be shocking to most:

* Products made in Chinese sweatshops by workers paid pennies a day who have to cough it right back up for dormitory rent.

* Not a dime from Wal-Mart management for the Wal-Mart Needy Employee Fund, but $3 million a year for political contributions.

* Lawsuits for blatant prejudicial treatment of women and minorities.

* Parking lots that are sewers of night-time crime for lack of cameras or patrols.

* Routine demands to work off the clock or be fired.

* Folding up shop at the drop of a hat to dodge a union - or to move outside of a city to avoid paying city taxes.

* $1.5 billion of YOUR tax dollars to provide welfare, health care and food stamps for underpaid, uninsured employees.

* A $125 million jet fleet. An average worker salary well below the poverty line for a family of four. Multiple convictions for water pollution.

All while the Walton family become five of the ten richest people in America.

This film proves that almost everyone else in America gets shafted one way or another by the Bentonville Mafia - except the Bentonville Mafia. They obviously did not learn in Kindergarten to play well with others.

History has shown that companies managed in such fashion don't last forever - since executives who cannot figure out how to make a dime without resorting to this kind of mentality are simply too stupid to keep the boat afloat when those tactics no longer work.

RECOMMENDATION: If anyone's ever turned in their grave, it's surely Sam Walton. A must see film for any true citizen of America.