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WAL-MART: THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE is a feature length documentary that uncovers a retail giant's assault on families and American values.

The film dives into the deeply personal stories and everyday lives of families and communities struggling to fight a goliath. A working mother is forced to turn to public assistance to provide healthcare for her two small children. A Missouri family loses its business after Wal-Mart is given over $2 million to open its doors down the road. A mayor struggles to equip his first responders after Wal-Mart pulls out and relocates just outside the city limits. A community in California unites, takes on the giant, and wins!



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 Drives Down Retail Wages $3 BILLION Every Year

FLORIDA: 12,300 WAL-MART Workers and their Dependents on Medicaid
ALABAMA: 3,864 Children of WAL-MART Employees are Enrolled in Medicaid
ARKANSAS: 3971 WAL-MART Workers on Public Assistance
CONNECTICUT: 824 WAL-MART Workers Have Children in a State Heath Care Program
GEORGIA: 10,261 Children of WAL-MART Employees are Enrolled in PeachCare for Kids
MASSACHUSETTS: 4,172 WAL-MART Workers and Dependents on State Health Care
TENNESSEE: 9,617 WAL-MART Workers on TennCare
TEXAS: 4,363 Children of WAL-MART Employees on CHIP
AND MORE STATES...

WAL-MART Costs Taxpayers $1,557,000,000,00 to Support its Employees

$7,000 ANTI-UNION CAMERA PACKAGE per store
$30,000 UNDERCOVER SPY VAN per store
$100,000 24 hour ANTI-UNION HOTLINE
$7,000,000 Rapid response team with CORPORATE JET

In Texas it is estimated that they cheated workers out of up to one hundred and fifty million dollars in unpaid wages

Wal-Mart Managers delete time from workers' timecards

Wal-Mart currently faces lawsuits in thirty-one different States for wage and hour abuses potentially involving hundreds of thousand workers.

City of Cameron give WAL-MART $2.1 MILLION to set up shop

City of Brookfield gives WAL-MART $300,000,00 to open doors

WAL-MART SUBSIDY NATIONWIDE: $1.008 BILLION

WAL-MART Imported $18 BILLION from CHINA in 2004

The WALTON FAMILY Has Given LESS THAN 1% of Their Wealth to Charity
Bill Gates has given 58%

The WALTON FAMILY Made $3.2 MILLION in Political Contributions in 2004

A WAL-MART Worker may donate money from their paycheck to the CRITICAL NEED FUND, a program to aid other employees in times of crisis, like a fire or tornado.
In 2004, WAL-MART Employees gave OVER $5 MILLION to help fellow workers
The Walton Family gave $6,000

The WALTON FAMILY received a federal tax cut of: $91,500.00 per HOUR in the 2004 tax year[/QUOTE]

i don't shop at wal-mart, ever since they stop selling explicit cds. Like the cd or not, don't tell me what I can and can't buy. You choose not to carry these cds and Maxim mag, I can choose to shop somewhere else. I have not set foot in a store since.

i hate how it is always crowded the 1st of the month. That store is madhouse at that time and more junkier than ever!!!

i don't shop there .EVER.

check it!

I find that people waste their time on things like this.

Before Wal-Mart most people made shit money.

After Wal-Mart most people were still making shit money, but at least they could buy some needed things.

With Poverty on the rise it's nice to have someone driving down the price of something.

This is comming from a man who gave up shopping at walmart a year ago because I now have money enough to get it else where and don't mind paying extra for higher quality goods and quite shopping. The only problem with walmart is the shoppers, maybe walmart needs to put a gym in the stores and take out McDonalds.

MickG said:

I don't even know what to say to that other than I assume you've been living under a rock for the past 15-20 years. Did you read any of the facts and figures at the top of the thread ? Whether you believe them or not is your choice, but Walmart have been doing this shit for years, breaking every law they can and taking away every employee benefit they can get away with. It's well known. Books have been written about it. Although in a way you are right - the really sad thing is that they have any shoppers at all, I really have no idea why anybody would buy their cheap nasty crap.

To give you an idea of the strength of feeling about Walmart - four supermarket chains have recently applied to build stores in or near my home town - Lidl, Aldi, Asda, and Tesco. All four were expected to quickly receive the necessary approval, but one of them is the subject of much protest and thousands of people have already signed a petition to keep them out.

Guess which one ?

Asda.

Want to know why ?

Because Walmart own them.

Walmart is not just another average employer, if you think they are you're deluding yourself. Their record speaks for itself.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

jethro! hold my purse you ,vermon!

Christopher said:

before miss mj moved outta the states he went there to buy some bonne bell lip smackers and hair dye that was on clearance.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

he also got some clearence "irregular size" bras, underwear,and pizza rolls . he knows his bargins!

MickG said:

Do you realize how snobby that sounds?

The fact is that if you buy stuff on sale, you'd never think Wal-Mart was that great. For the most part, they sell junk. The fact that they bill themselves as so Christian by not selling certain CDs, books and movies is unsetlling is just a slight factor for me. The big one is what they are doing to communities. If that doesn't affect your shopping habits, than maybe you need to see this movie. I can't wait for it. I recently saw a rather fair and balanced special on Wal-Mart and hearing some of their practices disgusted me. They also tried to show the postive side but it did little to affect me.

so it doesn't matter that wal-mart is a HUGE channel for improving China's economy while depleting ours? i guess if you give people what they want, they won't care the means used, eh -- kiss your freedoms goodbye

MickG said:

and walmart has a good deal to do with this

walmart has nothing to do with that. Don't like them don't use them. Don't sit around like a bunch of babies whinning. Wal-Mart isn't a whipping boy or escape goat for the worlds ills. Truth be told, if We made everything here in america, few would be able to buy the items.

This is been years in the making, and walmart isn't to blame.

MickG said:

Walmart is a huge part of this. Thay are big enough that they are shifting the world economy, and they affect me if I choose to shop there or not

paintsprayer said:

Globialization and the shifting of the world economy has nothing to do with walmart. Oh Please, if walmart didn't exist then who would be to BLAME for this? It is been going on for many years. Wal-Mart is just taking advantage of something that has been in the works for Thousands of years.