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Originally posted by Mr.Vicchio,+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Mr.Vicchio,)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>LA Times... no thanks. I would rather not read pulitzer prize winning propoganda. Wal Mart... isn't perfect. But as a whole, the company is a good force, and thanks to it, 1.4 million people have jobs.  100 Million shoppers save lots of money daily. Me thinks thats a good thing.[/b]

If Pulitzer Prize winning articles are not credible or considered propaganda, what news source do you hold in high regard? The slickest salesman/reporter?

Anyways, one can argue that the consumer also derives value in forms other than low costs and employment. McDonalds hires around a million employees. Their turnover rate is horrendous but the food they produce is cheap cheap cheap. One way that Wal-Mart is hurting the American public is its reliance on Chinese made products. People assume that the clothes and merchandise are locally produced, but that is definitely not the case. Most of all, if the workers are recieving lower wages and benefits, the return they give back to the local economy is significantly lower while Wal-Mart pockets the profits. Who exactly are you defending here? The stockowners and corporate suits?

This isn't a Liberal induced rant either. The general sentiment is shared by local and national groceries, American manufacturers who have to compete with Chinese production, and the American jobs lost from these American manufacturers.

Low price savings, at what cost? That's your own conclusion to form.

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This is just rediculous.  Where do you think these Walmart employees are from China?  How do you think they would get away with locking employees in after hours?  Way back when I worked in Retail, we often worked after hours and guess what, the doors were locked.  Does that mean I was being held hostage?  NO.  I could have left at any time, as I'm sure current Wally world employees could leave if they wanted while working after hours.  There are not chain gangs in Wally world. 
AS to the fact WW doesn't allow Unions, I say GOOD FOR THEM.  Unions raise the cost of production, which, in turn, raises the price of the goods or services produced by that company.  Therefore, the companies with Union labor are less able to compete with companies that don't.  This hurts the consumer who has to pay more, and hurts Unionized companies because they loose business to non-Union companies.

And I too will pass on the LA Times drivel.[/quote]

I didn't exagerate the facts or give the impression they were working in China. In fact, you corroborated one and came up with your own conclusion of what I meant and how you feel.

Oh yeah, journalism is at such a low level that their most prestious prize goes to any shill articles.