Something I rarely see mentioned but to me is significant is the fact that Wal-Mart employs what many might consider unemployable, the physically and mentally handicapped, they are the cart chasers, stockers, floor cleaners and other such jobs. People who might otherwise be another drain on the social services and tax payers.
Wal-Mart may not have pioneered this policy but they sure hire their share or more.
Good point. One of the local WalMarts has a greeter in a wheelchair at the garden center when they don't have the outdoor cash registers manned. He looks like he would otherwise have a career as a panhandler.