Wal-Mart, Societies Worst Bully!!

            Well yet again another surprise in my social justice class this week. My beloved Wal-Mart, the one stop shop, had some skeletons in its closet. After watching“Wal-Mart, the High Cost of Low Price”, I feel disgusted for even shopping there. When Wal-Mart came to my home town in Pinetop AZ, I was too young to realize what this store did to my town. I asked my parents recently what had happened when it came into town, and my fears were proven real. All the Mom and Pop shops went out of business and many families were left with no income. How can a corporation be ok with doing this to rural communities?

            A man from the movie was a manager trainer for Wal-Mart for many years, and he stated that they would go to these rural communities before a Wal-Mart was built. While in these communities they would drive by all the businesses estimating how long until they would go out of business. One of Wal-Mart’s main slogans is how much improvement their store will do for the community, when in all actuality it tears it apart. It shows that their main intention is to take over all the business in town, and they never had the intention to help the community in anyway. If an individual was hired by Wal-Mart they would receive unfair wages, and be offered way over priced health coverage. An employee has a choice; with the budget they receive, to decide whether to put food on the table or to have health coverage. They also would tell their employees to use welfare, food stamps, and many other city offered aids to survive, rather than offering their own coverage’s. How can a multi-billion dollar company not be able to afford to pay their employees a fair wage, and offer decent benefits for working there?

            Wal-Mart is a supreme example of a monopoly and they need to be reprimanded for the damage they have done to this country. If our country allows Wal-Mart to get away with these infractions, this country gives the green light for any other corporation to do the same. The brief issues that I listed in this blog are just a small fraction of all the horrible activities that Wal-Mart is involved in. Is America really this naive to just sit and not believe that this is really going on? These companies are getting away with murder, and America is just sitting back and allowing them to get away with it. We as a country need to take control back into our own hands, and stand up to these corporate giants. How many more rural communities are we going to allow to be subjected to this unfair business monopoly, how many more families are we going to watch lose their life work to a social bully, and how many lives have to be put into poverty before society finally says no more? How much more America, how much more?