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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Einan" data-source="post: 2421363" data-attributes="member: 29893">I do not shop at Wal*Mart and will not, but this is due to having worked for them for 5 years.  And someone said above that a lot has to do with the Store Manager: this is true.  I've worked in three separate Wal*Marts during my tenure and I concur.  However, a great deal of the problem with Wal*Mart transcends each store.  Wal*Mart has learned from great practice that it is far better to hire and train a new worker than promote a current worker and thus spend more money on them.  It operates very efficiently and clinically in its actions.  I have seen far too many good workers driven out in order that the store could post higher profits by hiring a new worker at a lower wage.  In addition, the store is patently designed to minimize thought and capitalize on the fact that Americans are lazy.  Example:  You purchase a microwave.  You go to the microwave aisle.  Next to the microwaves are microwave popcorn, microwave safe dishes, etc.  All of these items in a traditional store would be in a different aisle, along with others members of its genre or type.  At Wal*Mart, they put them together, in the idea that lazy consumer will see them and impulsively think, "I need those items, too!"  It's an absolute genius strategy: plant impulses in consumers' minds by placing complementart items together.  No other store or chain does this to such a degree and the sales figures show it.  I shudder at the genius whenever I think of it.  Further: Wal*Mart's store building strategy is to buy land outside of city limits, thus depriving cities and school systems of the property tax revenues.  This maximizes profits, but does nothing to benefit local areas.  Usually it harms them further because after Wal*Mart moves in, local businesses who do contribute to the local government tend to close, ending the city's revenue from taxes.  Plus, most of what Wal*Mart imports comes from China, including goods produced in forced labor camps.  Political prisoners are forced to work long hours for no pay and all the money goes to support the Chinese government.  Meanwhile, US manufacturing jobs are moving to third world suppliers, and unemployment among undereducated workers in America rises.Wal*Mart may be amoral, but you have a choice whether you support what this "amoral" company is creating in our society.  I urge you to think twice before shopping there.Einan</blockquote>

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