Tuesday, October 03, 2006

A Big, Ugly Box

Through walmartwatch.com I was directed to an article from The LA Times on Wal-Mart's business ethics. The world's biggest retailer is rotting America from the inside out and their practices have spread beyond borders to bring more economic hardship into regions of the world that don't need Wal-Mart's help to become a poverty stricken nation. You would think a company with $245 billion in sales last year would have the decency to raise wages, legalize unionization in their work force, and offer better products to its customers. No can do. Wal-Mart runs on greed, and that means forcing business partners to cut production costs, quality, and American jobs to offer a product to its biggest buyer, Wal-Mart, at the always low price that Wal-Mart demands. Wal-Mart's stinginess seems to have paid off for the executives at the top, but not for the rest of their 1.2 million workers and the future of the American economy.

Read The LA Times piece. http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2004/national-reporting/works/walmart1.html

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm trying to go the whole year here without shopping at the big W. So far so good. I think we should start doing some tag-team blogging. Let me know what you think.

Anonymous said...

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