Can I get a chain-reaction explanation for why Wal-mart is so bad?

Question

I'm still on the fence on if it's bad or not. Sure, Wal-mart runs mom 'n' pop stores out of business, but isn't that the benefit of Sam Walton working so hard? I admit I'm probably uneducated, so please give me the other side of the story.

Answer 1

Well first off Sam's vision was to have a big busines for the American people by the American people.

When Wal Mart first opened they only sold items made by Americans. In turn giving all these small mom n pop shops a new place to sell their products. This made Wal Mart into most of what they are today...basic good ole down home morals...take care of your fellow man.

But once Sam died the company turned into a normal corporate giant that is just a greed monger. They no longer allow small people to sell items in their stores. Sure you can bid your item to their sales department along with the other 140,000 products that are bid weekly by major manufacturers from all over the world. Where and how can a small mom n pop get into this? They can't.

So now the mom n pop lost their shop location, their customers and now the last source to sell their products too. They are out of business and now working for Wal Mart most likely making minimum wage and working just under full time hours so as not to be allowed benefits and insurance.

So now the mom n pop that use to have a nice business, a nice home, a nice income, health insurance, etc. Now they work for minimum wage and live in an apartment with no insurance and barely scraping by week to week.

Not to mention the fact that Wal Mart is bringing in items from mainly China. This in turns sends millions and even billions of dollars into their economy instead of ours. Their workers are making the money and their companies are making the money, not ours. Why? Cause that 20 cents off is just that important to Wal Mart.

And past all that....all giants fall. Gold Circle use to be big, they collapsed...Toys R Us was once a giant...they have collapsed to but a single cell organism now.

Now you might think...so what...they collapse. But think of how many jobs they employee. How many factories, dock workers, warehouse workers, semi drivers, etc all over the world that would be out of work over night.

One company that gets this big, this large and has this much power is never good. They start to bend the market and trend in their favor to make even more money. But that money train cannot keep up forever.

The bigger and bigger one gets, the more n more it takes to feed the beast. Sooner or later there is a food shortage for the beast and that is when the collapse starts.

Wal Mart as big as they are, and how they are growing, whey they collapse they have a high high risk of sending most countries into economic hardships. Some predict USA would be hit as hard as the 1920's depression.

To buy from them only supports their growth and collapse in time. For people to slowly stop shopping them now will allow them to restructure into a small more stable business with a less likelyhood of collapse.

Like a race car....it can only go at top speed for so long without breaking down or actually blowing up. Where if you slow it down and take it easy, it can drive on and on and on without much problem.

Answer 2

Well, I don't think Wal-mart is bad. Have you been into any of those old mom&pop stores? I've seen some that are not well kept up, and the merchandise is very old. I've been made to feel very unwelcome in a few of them. I don't really like big corporations either. But mom&pop need to change with the times if they want to survive in business. Also, about the labor business.... no one is forced to work at Wal-mart. If you need better wages and benefits, then work somewhere else.

Answer 3

The problem isn't with Wal-Mart being good or bad, its the fact that it puts small business out of work. Instead of going to 6 stores to get what you need, you now just go to Wal-Mart, that means 5 other stores are not getting their "normal" business and Wal-Mart got it ALL.

This is what upsets people.

PS that and the fact that Wal-Mart treats its employees like dirt.

Answer 4

Wal-Mart is a horrible company to work for and they are getting worse by the day.

expensive if any benefits.

85% of their employees get state benefits for either food stamps or health care but they turn a multi million dollar profit every year.

over worked and very under paid employees. It used to be employees were an extended family ( when Sam was alive) not their slaves to turn a higher profit for the boys.

Answer 5

Read the book "How Walmart is Destroying America(and the world)" and see the dvd " Walmart: High cost of low prices", and decide for yourself.