WALLY WORLD Employment Application

[Kamog]

I wish there were a Wal-Mart near where I live; the closest one is about an hour's drive away. They have a large variety of goods at reasonable prices. I heard they were proposing to build a Wal-Mart at another location that's closer a couple of years ago, but the local small store owners protested so they couldn't go ahead.

[Atrocities]

Wal-Mart is one of those companies that makes its own customers by putting the companies that once employeed the people that now must shop at wal-mart out of business. They are a self feeding parasite of a company and should be broken up by monopoly laws before they bankrupt America.

[Evil_Duckie]

A good friend of mine used to work for Wal-Mart (corporate HQ) and she told me that if Wal-Mart would be a country, it'd be something like the 12th richest in the world.

Kinda makes you wonder...

[Caduceus]

There was a MSN special on WalMart a few weeks ago which was interesting. WM (amongst other vendors, pharmaceutical companies, etc) rake in the dough. When Sam Walton was still alive, many of the products were made in the US. Since his departure (and death) they have started stocking "cheaper" imported goods. This of course is good for the bottom line and in fact they are expanding into different countries at an alarming rate. I don't know where I'm going with this message aside from the fact that consumers in the US like being able to stop one place, getting a DVD, buying dinner and getting detergent. I'm not sure what can be done to reverse the invasion of WalMart into small-town economies nationwide. Even in the small town in which we live, we have a WalMart. County population in 30 000. City population, 3000.

[Atrocities]

I also watched the Frontline episode, which the MSN special based its report on, "Is Wal-Mart Bad For America" and I would have to say yes yes it is.

[Azselendor]

Vermont, if memory serves, has been able to hold wal amrt largely at bay by requiring it to only open new stores in existings buildings to "Preserve Historical Integrity".

Then in parts of northern california, people have been voting down wal mart supercenters for years despite the company's best efforts.

I know where I live, walMart is buy up swaths of land in walking distance from my house is preparation to build a supercenter and then a distribution facility nearby.

[Phoenix-D]

What bugs me a lot about Wal Mart is the number of people that complain about it..then continue to shop there.

Hello? Have some @%! principles, please? Its not that much more expensive elsewhere.

[Pvt Hudson]

I dont shop there because they carried censored albums, they dont carry certain computer games, and its grungy