
30 Aug 2007, 07:41
I know this was posted a while ago, but I'll try to answer anyway.
In America there is a lot of hype against Wal-mart literally "curb stomping" local businesses and destroying mom and pop stores because they can no longer compete. However, the case is simply that Wal-mart isn't the all powerful evil which everyone makes it out to be. Just like how fast food chains don't destroy local restaurants, Wal-mart isn't going to compete with high quality good manufactures. People can cry all they want but it brings jobs to the people, improves the standard of living, and helps bring some materials which weren't available before to the people (when I was traveling to Alaska, people loved the Wal-mart in Ketchikan simply because they couldn't get general goods anywhere else).
People say that they treat their employers unfairly, give horrible benefits, and bad pay. However they have yet to open their eyes to the fast food chains which dominate the land-scape and they don't seem to have a problem with it; only because they provide services in one section of the industry, not multiple sections like Wal-mart can offer.
All in all, this is just another example of an American buisness dominateing the market and expanding chains across the globe, exploiting labor of poor nations.
This is nothing new, the food industries have been doing this for a very long time, and no one seems to care. Isn't this country great?

04 Nov 2007, 00:06
I disagree. I know people who had earned modest but good businesses that were effected by MALL-WART's presence abd they do pose a problem for everyday people trying to make a living. Yes they provide many jobs, but if you look at it consequentially, for every job the walmart creates three are lost. And now they have the nerve to beg the commons for help in insuring their employed. Interesting thing is that in places like India walmarts are not allowed to have a business inside their country.

19 Nov 2009, 02:46
Its just the manifestation of monoply capitalism.