[grania]

Personally, I hate WalMart. They sell cheap stuff to people who mostly don't care about quality or that slave labor produced it. But it's cheap. These protestors are asking the store that provides cheap junk to pay higher wages which will raise prices. Huh???

A more helpful protest would be to bring back manufacturing to the US. By not having that money go overseas they'd have availability of more job options.

FWIW, when you can find made in the USA merchandise, the prices are competitive.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Domestic Federal regulations make US manufacture a far more expensive proposition than it was in the past. And a frequent move is to simply assemble Chinese parts in the USA to be able to slap that label on.

Everybody wants a humane workplace but nobody can assure it against every possible risk. That is to try to live in cloud cuckoo land.

[nascarnation]

55% of WM sales in the US is grocery.
Is their grocery stuff all that much differently sourced or quality than competitors?

[mdittmar]

"when you can find made in the USA merchandise, the prices are competitive".

When a union isn't involved.