Do you really think you’re “buying goods cheaply”? If I want quality things that last, I can find them from fair-trade countries and it’s getting more common made-in-the-USA. WalMart lacks style, lacks quality, lacks uniqueness. And why would I want to by stuff which has been mauled by WalMartians? I wish those who shopped at WalMart had to pay a tax surcharge to subsidize the starving employees!
A lot of the associates are on food stamps, so yeah, they are subsidized.
Yes, items at Wal-Mart are in fact cheaper on average. I don’t go there often, but if I did I would spend less on the exact same items I buy at the grocery or a Target.
The whole concept of paying a tax surcharge is crap. If people who are capable of a higher wage, they would take it elsewhere. Walmart provides wages perfectly in line with the law and as the market bears. That BS theory is nothing more than propaganda.