"Wal-mart: The High Cost of Low Price" Overview

Wal-mart has been one of the biggest corporations for many years. I did not know that it could have reached this height of being such an evil corporation. This documentary gave me new light on the mega Wal-mart, and I think that from now on I wont be shopping there, and instead be at local mom and pop shops.

It is crazy how they destroy small shops in small towns that they enter, such as H&H Hardware as seen in the film. They also strongly dislike unions and their workers unionizing, and go to extreme lengths to destroy them. They also hired at one point undocumented workers to do lousy jobs and had them working like slaves. Not to mention the family that owns Wal-mart "The Waltons" are the richest family in the world, they hardly give any of their many to charities or causes.

Wal-mart also cheated their employees out of their earned pay by docking the hours they worked. Also they are Sexist and Racist as seen in the documentry a women that worked their 15 years never got promoted but a man working there did in much less time, and the racist aspect wa that an African American fellow was being called horrible things by coworkers and customers.

Wal-mart is horrible on the environment and treats their wokshop workers like slaves, they leave gigantic Wal-marts empty that no store could ever fill. They also have really bad security were many parking lots have been the locations to horrible crimes, since security did not watch the cameras. Luckily many towns have successfully destroyed the idea of wal-marts coming to their towns.

This documentary gave me new insight on a place that I frequented many times. Now I will be doing my shopping else where since I found out the horrible working conditions of Wal-mart just to get those cheap prices. I would highly recommend watching this film, it is life changing.