An
intreresting article on the subject of Wal-mart's impact on the economy:
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The giant retailer's low prices often come with a high cost. Wal-Mart's relentless pressure can crush the companies it does business with and force them to send jobs overseas. Are we shopping our way straight to the unemployment line?
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I rarely shop Wal-mart, mostly because there are many places closer to where I live. But from some of the things I've read recently, out of princliple I'm going to stop shopping there altogether. I have a big problem with shipping all of our labor overseas; it takes thousands of jobs away from the lower class to ultimately make the wealthy wealthier.
To chime in on the life insurance policy debate... It doesn't sit well with me. I think it's the thought that if I were an employee of Wal-mart, I'd be highly uncomfortable with the fact that I was working for what is arguably the most powerful company in the world, and they are taking measures which may make me, to them, more valuable
dead than
alive.