Recommended Reading (great book! >)
The Wal-Mart You Don't Know
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. full
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frontline: is wal-mart good for america?
Frontline explores the relationship between U.S. job
losses and the American consumer's insatiable desire for bargains.
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Boycott Wal-Mart
By crushing local businesses, Wal-Mart eliminates three
decent jobs for every two jobs that it creates--and a store full of part-time,
poorly paid employees hardly builds the family wealth necessary to sustain
a community's middle-class living standard.
Indeed, Wal-Mart operates as a massive wealth extractor.
Instead of profits staying in town to be reinvested locally, the money
is hauled off to the corporate headquarters, either to be used as capital
for conquering yet another town or simply to be stashed in the family
vaults
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