Walmart: Is it Really Worth the Savings?
March 24th, 2008 Posted in This n That, Walmart WoesA fabulous article that is a must read for anyone who shops at Walmart or knows someone who shops at Walmart.
How Walmart is Remaking our World by Jim Hightower
Top 10 Wal-Mart Worst Actions
From Walmartwatch.com
- A judge fined Wal-Mart $18 million because the company provided incomplete and false evidence in a lawsuit brought by a woman who had been abducted in a Wal-Mart parking lot.
- Upholding a $2.3 million verdict awarded to two women sexually harassed by a Wal-Mart manager, the judge said, the manager’s conduct was “outrageous and apparently Wal-Mart was aware of this, since his conduct was witnessed high-level [supervisors].
- Federal judges in three states have fined Wal-Mart–as much as $120,000–for destroying evidence, withholding documents, and other violations in cases where Wal-Mart shoppers were either injured or a crime victim at a Wal-Mart store.
- A jury found that Wal-Mart fired a white female employee because she was dating a black man, in a 1998 case.
- A 14-year Wal-Mart worker was awarded $2.75 million after a jury decided store officials wrongly accused her of stealing.
- Three existing community jobs are destroyed for every two new jobs at Wal-Mart.
- Wal-Mart, the company that wrapped itself in the American Flag, is so patriotic it runs a Buy Mexican campaign.
- Wal-Mart sold fake Tommy Hilfiger apparel to consumers after a judged ordered the company to stop.
- Only 38% of Wal-Mart employees have company provided health insurance–compared to a national average that shows 60% of employees are covered by company plans.
- After the FTC charged Wal-Mart with not identifying the country of origin on apparel items listed on its Internet sales site, Wal-Mart removed the items, apparently preferring not to disclose where the clothing was made.
More GREAT Articles
The Wal-Mart You Don’t Know
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html
FrontLine’s piece on Walmart
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/
WalMart Watch: A site keeping track of their injustices
http://www.walmartwatch.com/
Another watch dog site;
http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/
Congress report on Walmart
http://www.againstthewal.com/studies/millerwalmartreport.htm
Fox News and Walmart: It’s a Love Story
http://www.newshounds.us/2005/01/14/fox_news_and_walmart_its_a_love_story.php
Healthcare and Walmart
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/507169?src=mp
Do you shop at Wal-Mart? Wouldn’t you like to shop there knowing that Wal-Mart
follows U.S. child labor laws and refuses to profit from overseas child labor abuses?
Unfortunately, this is not the case.
http://go.care2.com/e/R2ZR/b9qg/vDLt
Think Walmart is organic? Think again!
http://cornucopia.org/index.php/wal-mart-white-paper/
Grist’s Blog on Why Walmart is Evil
http://www.grist.org/advice/ask/2004/11/22/umbra-walmart/