Review of Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005) by Andrew P — 02 Oct 2006
On my Netflix quest to watch more documentaries, I finally got the chance to watch this pretty shocking documentary. The film explores many of the ruthless ways that Wal-Mart employs to keep costs of merchandise low and profits up. Some of the things they do border what Mr. Bush would call, "evil." I will list a few important points here, but you should watch the documentary itself to get the details:
- Large % of their employees and children of employees are on Medicaid instead of Wal-Mart's health plan.
- Women and people of color are strongly discriminated against.
- The store is very anti-union, yet they pay their employees didly squat and work them overtime with no pay.
- The working conditions in China and Bangladesh are horrific, in order to get the cheap merchandise Wal-Mart has to sell to the US.
- The crime rate in Wal-Mart parking lots is shockingly high (and somewhat scary to think I braved one of them in Houston which had some murders and rapes occur!) and Wal-Mart does nothing about them.
The list goes on, but those are just some of the more important ones. In my personal view, Wal-Mart makes Microsoft look like Toys R Us. Good thing there's always Target and Costco to shop at. =) Many cities in the country (including Chicago and Queens, NY) have rejected Wal-Mart from their neighborhoods...
Check the documentary out and make your own judgements on whether you should shop at Wal-Mart in the future.
This review of Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005) was written by Andrew P on 02 Oct 2006.
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price has generally received positive reviews.
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