WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Prices

Ahnimus
Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
edited November 2007 in A Moving Train
WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Prices
Duration: 1hr 38m
Format: Google Video (Flash Required)
Site: http://www.walmartmovie.com
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  • binger
    binger Posts: 179
    Frontline did an episode on it in 2004.
    Watch it here.

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/view/
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    binger wrote:
    Frontline did an episode on it in 2004.
    Watch it here.

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/view/

    Cool man I'll check that out. Thanks :)
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • ryan198
    ryan198 Posts: 1,015
    Pretty decent...I prefer the Corporation b/c while it's easy to pick on Wal-Mart, all for profit corporations rely on the need to exploit.
  • world
    world Posts: 266
    I just dont shop at Wal-Mart because only smelly scumbags shop there. The people in there are disgusting.
    Chicago '98, Noblesville '00, East Troy '00, Chicago '00, Champaign '03, Chicago '03, Chicago1 '06, Chicago2 '06, Milwaukee '06, Chicago1 '09, and Chicago2 '09
  • miller8966
    miller8966 Posts: 1,450
    world wrote:
    I just dont shop at Wal-Mart because only smelly scumbags shop there. The people in there are disgusting.

    very true...the mullets are in full swing at walmart
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  • ryan198
    ryan198 Posts: 1,015
    world wrote:
    I just dont shop at Wal-Mart because only smelly scumbags shop there. The people in there are disgusting.
    It must be nice to have that privilege, some people don't.
  • world
    world Posts: 266
    ryan198 wrote:
    It must be nice to have that privilege, some people don't.

    The same people who dont have the privilege to shop elsewhere sure do have the privilege to buy spinners, subwoofers, and spoilers for their pieces of shit in the parking lot.
    Chicago '98, Noblesville '00, East Troy '00, Chicago '00, Champaign '03, Chicago '03, Chicago1 '06, Chicago2 '06, Milwaukee '06, Chicago1 '09, and Chicago2 '09
  • ryan198
    ryan198 Posts: 1,015
    world wrote:
    The same people who dont have the privilege to shop elsewhere sure do have the privilege to buy spinners, subwoofers, and spoilers for their pieces of shit in the parking lot.
    why do you pick on those peope rather than the really rich people who don't have the decency to pay those people a living wage but can throw million dollar parties on their yaghts b/c of the work the people with the spinners in the parking lot do for them.
  • world
    world Posts: 266
    ryan198 wrote:
    why do you pick on those peope rather than the really rich people who don't have the decency to pay those people a living wage but can throw million dollar parties on their yaghts b/c of the work the people with the spinners in the parking lot do for them.

    If you do a job of what a monkey can do, then you get payed like it.
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  • ryan198
    ryan198 Posts: 1,015
    world wrote:
    If you do a job of what a monkey can do, then you get payed like it.
    I'm pretty sure a monkey could run 8 businesses into the ground...like our president. Does that imply that he shouldn't have been compensated the way he was. If so how do you reconcile your theory with the irony of a class based system which rewards rich lazy idiots by making them president, and then punishes poor hard working people by making fun of their cultural values?
  • JaneNY
    JaneNY Posts: 4,438
    world wrote:
    I just dont shop at Wal-Mart because only smelly scumbags shop there. The people in there are disgusting.

    I do not shop at Wal-Mart anymore, do not want one in my town, and disagree with their policies but that statement is a little harsh. Everyone's human and plenty of decent people shop there for whatever reason, even if I disagree with it. You might find it amusing to know that in a nearby town there is horse and BUGGY parking at the wal-mart because the AMISH shop there.
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  • world
    world Posts: 266
    ryan198 wrote:
    I'm pretty sure a monkey could run 8 businesses into the ground...like our president. Does that imply that he shouldn't have been compensated the way he was. If so how do you reconcile your theory with the irony of a class based system which rewards rich lazy idiots by making them president, and then punishes poor hard working people by making fun of their cultural values?

    Bush is one person. The majority of the upper class arent similar to our retarded prez.
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  • ryan198
    ryan198 Posts: 1,015
    JaneNY wrote:
    I do not shop at Wal-Mart anymore, do not want one in my town, and disagree with their policies but that statement is a little harsh. Everyone's human and plenty of decent people shop there for whatever reason, even if I disagree with it. You might find it amusing to know that in a nearby town there is horse and BUGGY parking at the wal-mart because the AMISH shop there.
    I'm the same way about Wal-Mart, but some people have little or no respect for others.
  • Vedderlution_Baby
    Vedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,535
    Hey, I shop at wal-mart sometimes. And guess what. I don't even have a fucking car and I don't have a mullet either. I shop there because as a broke ass college student I can't go to other places where the prices are higher. I'm glad you think I'm disgusting though, it's really enlightens me.
  • ryan198
    ryan198 Posts: 1,015
    world wrote:
    Bush is one person. The majority of the upper class arent similar to our retarded prez.
    Yes b/c a majority of the upper class got to go to private high schools, Ivy League Colleges, get internships b/c of their connections, and benefit from the class position in which they were born in. On the flip, if you are from the inner city and going to school where your books are from the 1950's, and your teachers are more worried about keeping you alive from day to day what chance have you got? Why wouldn't you spend money on spinners. Further if Bush is one person, don't you think that people with spinners are but a relative minority amongs the 26% of our population that lives in poverty?
  • world
    world Posts: 266
    Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:
    Hey, I shop at wal-mart sometimes. And guess what. I don't even have a fucking car and I don't have a mullet either. I shop there because as a broke ass college student I can't go to other places where the prices are higher. I'm glad you think I'm disgusting though, it's really enlightens me.

    you disgusting smelly college hippy!! :)

    Actually, when I was at college, I did venture to Wal-Mart every once and awhile. I also bought my beer with whatever coins I could find in my old couch. I tried to rig my couch so that people would sit at the right angle so coins would fall out of their pockets.

    Now that I have a job(which has nothing to do with my college education, my job is a trade that doesnt require any formal eductation) I dont rig my couch, I dont shop at Wal-Mart, and I buy Guiness instead of Busch Light.
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  • Vedderlution_Baby
    Vedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,535
    world wrote:
    you disgusting smelly college hippy!! :)

    Actually, when I was at college, I did venture to Wal-Mart every once and awhile. I also bought my beer with whatever coins I could find in my old couch. I tried to rig my couch so that people would sit at the right angle so coins would fall out of their pockets.

    Now that I have a job(which has nothing to do with my college education, my job is a trade that doesnt require any formal eductation) I dont rig my couch, I dont shop at Wal-Mart, and I buy Guiness instead of Busch Light.

    I can't wait til I can choose where I can shop.
  • sonicreducer
    sonicreducer Posts: 713
    Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:
    I can't wait til I can choose where I can shop.

    me either dude, me either,... 2 more years
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  • Vedderlution_Baby
    Vedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,535
    sonicreducer wrote:
    me either dude, me either,... 2 more years

    How old are you?
  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,337
    world wrote:
    I just dont shop at Wal-Mart because only smelly scumbags shop there. The people in there are disgusting.

    Yeah, I'd rather pay extra and not have to deal with all scumbags, and help out these that do in fact treat their employees like shit.

    Around Christmas time is the best. It's like a freakshow in there!! You have all these toothless dirtballs fresh out of their trailers fighting eachother over worthless crap! Ahhh...tis the season.
    :D

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