I have a confession to make. I'm a fan of Wal-Mart. I cannot always condone their actions like not giving their employees lunch breaks or hiring illegal immigrants to work as the maintenance crews in their stores, but I can say that the living wages tripe that gets put against them is often untrue. Wal-Mart does in fact pay fairly good wages for this area -- and is one of the highest paying employeers. Now this may be because it's not terribly expensive to live where I do, but if you go to Wal-Mart to work you're not exactly getting a minimum wage job.
It is true they tend to put smaller mom and pop operations out of business and I think they should figure out how to help these stores stay in business where they can, but people who look at the evil of Wal-Mart often overlooks the good the store does. The store will in fact go out of its way to buy from American companies and often contributes to charities. Nor do I see bitter and cynical employees that so often inhabit retail establishments.
So, if you want to hate Wal-Mart that's fine with me, they've done things in the past that were wrong, but don't wholly overlook the good that the store does either.
It is true they tend to put smaller mom and pop operations out of business and I think they should figure out how to help these stores stay in business where they can, but people who look at the evil of Wal-Mart often overlooks the good the store does. The store will in fact go out of its way to buy from American companies and often contributes to charities. Nor do I see bitter and cynical employees that so often inhabit retail establishments.
So, if you want to hate Wal-Mart that's fine with me, they've done things in the past that were wrong, but don't wholly overlook the good that the store does either.
posted by The Sinister Porpoise | 9:33 AM
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Amen, Lara. "And the farm-owner said, 'Don't pull up the weeds, because you'll uproot some of the good crops if you do. Just let the plant-life mature until harvest, when we'll sort out the useless and burn it to make fertilizer for the future-fields.'"
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