[lmr]

Wal-Mart hatred is silly. You don't like Wal-Mart, shop somewhere else. Capitalism is good.

I agree with your point. I made the same points at X-mas dinner with my father-in-law. He hates Wal-Mart's guts. My wife's grandmother says she is 'forced' to shop at Wal-Mart because they have "those karts that I can get around in". Forced to shop because they provide a conveinence? Ridiculous, but this is how some people think. Needless to say, I love them because I love my wife even more. Wal-Mart is an awesome American story. Sam Walton was for discount stores what Henry Ford was for automobiles and Bill Gates for personal computers.

Besides, Wal-Mart has some competition that is emulating Wal-Mart, and that is a good thing. Namely, Target.

[durasell]

Don't give Havoc more ammunition...

26 Feb 1974 A U.S. Senate report reveals Ford Motor's involvement in Nazi Germany's war efforts, for which CEO Henry Ford received the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from Adolf Hitler himself. After the war, the car company was paid nearly $1M reparation by the U.S. government to compensate for one of its plants that was bombed within the Reich.

[okiecon]

Exactly. People complain about Wal-Mart because Wal-Mart is so good. If Wal-Mart paid their workers less than the market demanded, they would be understaffed and would lose customers.

Furthermore, these other places do not pay any better, they are just not as large as Wal-Mart, so noone cares. The whole working people as part-time to deny benefits thing is simply a way to work around requirements that they cannot afford.