does anybody know why people are against walmart?..what are some arguments?...?

Answer 1

they are buying up worth less land to make heaven
easy to park
good range of cheap stuff
getting people out of factories
selling cheap stuff wearing clean cloths
love wall mart
need one in EVERY town

Answer 2

Well, there are lots of reasons.

The first is that when Wal-Mart moves into smaller towns, they tend to drive "Mum and Pop" (family owned) businesses out of business. For example, most people will choose to buy the $1.50 knitting yarn at our local Wal-mart than the $5 yarn at the local knitting store. The family owned businesses can't afford to lower their prices simply 'cause they don't make enough to do that, so eventually they lose all business and die out.

In turn, that forces people to shop at Wal-Mart, and once all the family owned businesses are gone Wal-Mart can raise their prices and people won't have any other place to buy.

A while back a lot of people were angry with Wal-Mart because they didn't provide employee benefits like health insurance. Now a company doesn't HAVE to do those things, but almost all do just because it's the nice thing to do. However, Wal-Mart got enough bad publicity from it that now most store offer benefits to their employees.

Another little scandal was that there was some harrassment toward female employees, but that died off fairly quickly, so if there was anything behind it I don't know.

Hope that helps! Personally, although I love family owned businesses, I do find Wal-Mart helpful and don't have any complaints about them myself. It's just business, and it isn't fair to tell them how to run their company when they aren't directly hurting anyone.

Answer 3

Number one, each time they open a new Wal-Mart,all of the small retailers within a five mile radius have to close due not being able to compete with the huge retailer.Wal-Mart buys most all of their merchandise from China and most of the poorer nations.And we buy from Wal-Mart because the prices are quite a bit lower than other retailers around the area.The smaller retailer cant afford to buy in mass from the nations that sell to Wal-Mart,Thus the prices they sell their merchadise for are roughly ten to twenty percent higher than Wal-Mart.And We as the typical underpaid Americans have to buy from the large retailer to save a few bucks.Shame on us and shame on them,So slowly our economy drops and they keep getting richer. If we consumers could tighten our belts and only purchase things that were grown and made in America,our economy would strengthen and the retail giants would change the way they do business..

Answer 4

i myself think walmart is better then Kmart. they do treat there employees like crap, there health insurance sucks,pay sucks, not a family oriented place of business to work at as they claim, it's not a one stop shop, there workers are rude not all of them but most, there moving jobs out of this country for there needs, got rid of layaway ( since they claim they were losing money), don't double coupons, working people without them being on the time clock, making you work through brakes, working minors longer then they should, look at any way to get rid of you if you hurt yourself on the job, long lines, workers don't know what there doing, aisles to small, to much stuff on the shelves ( that it falls when you pick it up), ladders, skids, pilot jacks, cart in the way of shopping, number system for the deli, have to go all over to find help if you need it, shelves are bare, have to wait on carts, don't sell explicit CD's, have a hard time honoring others sell ads (when they claim they do) well i think i said enough about our wonderful walmart. don't like to go there but it is open 24 hrs. but i do have a problem with walmart over all. They dont sell stamps can you all believe that!!! but over all if i need something i will go to walmart. you can always find a walmart some where.

Answer 5

Factory workers in foriegn countries are treated like slaves, working 16 hour days with virtually no compensation. What little money they earn usually goes to pay the company rent for prison-like dormitories, or to support their families that they never see.

The products they create for mere cents get sold in the US and other industrialized countries for many times the cost of production and transportation.

The main problem is inhuman treatment of human resources.

A good example has been made in the many lawsuits that have proven Walmart uses tactics of intimidation to get American workers to work off the clock after hours in order to keep their jobs.

Answer 6

The people who are against Walmart are the people who are against capitalism. They cannot look at a successful business and be happy for it...all they can look at are the smaller failed businesses that were beaten out by a better business plan. They view wealth and prosperity as evil, because they can only view it within the context of those that don't have it. They don't care about equal opportunity...they only care about equal outcome. Walmart is the perfect example of what can happen when the market is allowed to do its thing...you get decent products, a great selection of products, and all for a good price.

Answer 7

People are against Walmart because they do not have a union and because they destroy all the small businesses in the area.

Answer 8

Because they refuse to pay what things really cost if the people who make it were paid a living wage, that encourages junky products made by slave labor in countries that are causing pollution.

They will willingly sell at a loss in order to drive local businesses out.

They don't pay health insurance, instead relying on state taxpayers to cover it.

Answer 9

Well in more recent recent years Wal-Mart has had the power to choose which products it wants to sell rather than court companies to sell in Wal-Mart's stores. They have been known to tell companies that if they didn't move their production outside the U.S. in order lower the production cost and thus product prices then Wal-Mart would not allow the product to be sold in their stores. If many companies can't sell in Wal-Mart then they have tougher time competing with products that can. Wal-Mart used to claim to sell products made only in the U.S.A., but now they actually encourage companies to leave our country.

Answer 10

Anything that gets too big becomes corrupt.
Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.

You hear all kinds of things in the news about Walmart.
Too many to mention.

Answer 11

Well... I always want to go there to buy stuff because it's cheap, but my husband doesn't like me to go because he doesn't like Wal-Mart. And the reasons he doesn't like Wal-Mart are because 1. apparently they don't pay their employees well, and also because 2. everything they sell is made in a foreign country. And since they sell things from a foreign country, to him, that means they are supporting foreign countries and not America.