WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price

[DOHC-LSR]

I'm interested in watching this... might be screening locally only in slect theatres... unless andy can work his magic for me... this might be easy to obtain since it was never made to produce profit... hence why all promotion, commericals are non existent.

Everyone has seen Wal-Mart's lavish television commercials, but have you ever wondered why Wal-Mart spends so much money trying to convince you it cares about your family, your community, and even its own employees? What is it hiding?

WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price takes you behind the glitz and into the real lives of workers and their families, business owners and their communities, in an extraordinary journey that will challenge the way you think, feel... and shop.
http://www.walmartmovie.com/

[AdotWu]

just watched the trailer... i dont understand the point theyre trying to make. What exactly is Wal-Mart doing wrong?

[DOHC-LSR]

just watched the trailer... i dont understand the point theyre trying to make. What exactly is Wal-Mart doing wrong?

from the stuff going in one of my ears and out the other... The movie details in a number of ways why the retail giant, with all its snuggly, feel-good American appeal, is really a plague of locusts to any community that hosts one.

Walmart moves in to provide massive jobs and low prices to a community. The community mom and pop shops close up soon after because they can never compete with Walmart. Then they actually might end up working for Walmart... because they got bills to pay... then everyone thinks things are great... because they got lots more jobs... cheap cheap prices for everything they need... until they realize they aren't getting paid shit and moving no where in the world... realizing they'll always be at Walmart doing the samething forever...

Thats what I think the movie is going to talk about. and probably some other stuff I don't pay attention to on the news and that is also on the down-low.... I saw a bit in that trailer about environmental impact, but never heard of that before.

[cowboy]

in school i did a case study on walmart, so did jenny.

after reading it, you'll begin to be impressed on their agressiveness regarding expansion. i didn't see the trailor, but from what i've read, they usually target small communities where there isn't much competition from target, or k-mart. then they grow grow grow!

and as they grow larger, the more buying power they have. it was said that walmart itself has an economy larger than many countries in the world! insane? yup! it's just a matter of time before they become the largest provider of household products.

we're just waiting for the anti-trust lawsuit...SHERMAN! flex your powers!

-ray, word

[DOHC-LSR]

its at the end of the trailer... but I was half asleep this morning watching it...

5,000 stores and growing...

Walmart as far as I know is the Worlds largest private employer? The Gov't is not private.

[DOHC-LSR]

I'm gonna rent this... cuz I can. :happy: How boring is that!

[affro]

Wal Mart gives me good deals on 20 gallon drums of cheetos.

[cowboy]

woah, that's quite far for cheetos, but i'll do the same for flaming hots

or just *flaming hots* in castro!

-ray, word...ahahhaah

[DOHC-LSR]

Hmm... pretty interesting... I guess we don't see the effects as much out here but in the boonies... they really take over...

[fourthighs]

Do they "bully" the vendor's on better deals since they have such an impact on sales...