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4:23 pm, July 31st, 2008 - 10 comments
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Tags: walmart
Here’s a cool animation of Wal-Mart’s spread across the US (click the image below to launch it):
Wal-Mart is the largest corporation in the world by revenue, and the largest private employer in the world. Here’s a little Wikipedia info on them and a page dedicated to some of the criticisms of the chain.
(Via: BoingBoing)
So Nevada is the place to go eh.. actually in all honesty I got got some sweet sun-glasses for 10 bucks in a walmart, they have decent watches for cheap too
Wal-Mart is like a deadly virus slowing spreading throughout American communities… in so many ways.
Yet it keeps thousands of Americans employed, eh WUW? It’s growing for a reason. I went there to shop. It’s great tbh.
http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/facts/#wages
Oh yes it keeps them employed alright. In miserably paying jobs that barely keep families over the accepted US poverty line.
Yes infused, you may have had a great shopping experience at Walmart, but as whose expense, and do you care?
thanks for the video all-your-base and thanks for the link redlogix.
infused,
Walmart destroyed local employment, production and economies forcing local people to take shitty jobs while sucking their local economies dry . Not only that, they did the same in communities all over the world. By destroying America’s food independence they have made it impossible for America to get back on its feet now that their economy is imploding rendering it into a third world state and it will take with it all those communities that depended on their exports to the states. That is China, the European countries and NZ amongst others.
Jeez RedLogix, don’t you know anything about the modern world? Apparently they’re ‘free’ to move to another job (as if there are no barriers to doing so) and should be educating themselves (easy to do when you’re constantly battling to make ends meet). Probably a ‘character building’ thing to do as well…
Let’s not forget the hordes of slave children in poor countries that replenish their stock. The wonders of capitaliam – $10 sunglasses for…some.
Matthew Pilott,
Apparently you are the one who doesn’t know about the realities in the USA. There are practically no production jobs left. They have all been outsourced to China and Mexico. the only jobs left are service jobs and as the financial and economic meltdown progresses these jobs will also disappear. The economy is drowning in red ink.
Foreclosures moving anywhere between 8000 to 16000 families out of their homes each day.
The US is a dead man walking and we are going with it.
When Walmart advertises for workers they get 400 to 500 applicants.
That’s how bad it is already and it’s only just begun.
Here is a US debt clock.
Here you can find out about the state of the banking world in the US.
Welcome to the real world.
Having been a retailer when TWH expanded aggressively, we got burnt badly by punters buying cheap foreign made gear rather than higher priced NZ made clothing.
People like the concept of paying NZ workers more – I do too – but when it comes to spending their money, lower prices win every time.
TWH has been particularly bad for retail in NZ similar to the impact
of Walmart in the US.
Daveski,
Yep, all these big corporate international operations function along the same lines.
And the home of TWH has the cheek to call itself the “the engineroom of the economy”. Just sucking money out of the rest of the economy. “Import distribution capital” is more like it. Peak oil and Kiwirail should put and end to that within a decade or two.