Do you believe Walmart is bad for the U.S. economy?

Walmart, Kmart, Target are just another part of the american economy. If Walmart does good the economy does good. Because Walmart sells various products made by american businesses. What's the difference between Walmart and Sears? or Best Buy? They are a retailer. Liberals for some reason or another hate Walmart more than Target or Kmart.

When originally started by Sam Walton was a great idea. He helped new businesses put their made in America products on the market by going through Sams' Club exclusively. In time started Wal-Mart.

Unfortunately things have changed considerably over the years. Very little, if any, made in America products to be found anymore. Not only at Wal-Mart, but also anywhere else.

I personally do not like contributing to Wal-Marts twenty thousand and some hundred dollars ($20,000.00 +) per MINUTE profit. Especially since Wal-Mart has run most small in town businesses out of business whereever it has gone.

They eliminate all the mom and pop specialty stores. Underpay their employees, Buy most of their cheap crap from China . Waltons are some of the wealthiest people in the world AND STILL TREAT MOST OF THEIR EMPLOYEES LIKE DIRT .

They make deals to not pay taxes in the towns they set up shop. They pay their employees just enough to entice them, but give them welfare applications in their hiring packets. They clock out their employees when they get too close to 40 hours. They demand that you keep an open schedule, so if circumstances change, you are out of a job. If you get hurt on the job, too bad. You will be lucky if they pay medical bills. Odds are, you are still going to have to work for them when you heal.

After their tax holiday is up, they often times close up shop and move to another town.

While their business practices are often legally grey, and others are outright illegal, they have a fleet of lawyers who specialize in keeping things tied up in court until the party without the money drops the complaint.

They make me sick, and I hate shopping there, knowing what they do.
But I cannot afford to shop elsewhere. They are dirty dealers, underhanded businessmen, but the are the cheapest game in town.

I think Wal*Mart is bad for the human race.

Odumba is bad for the economy.

All the $Billions that shoppers at Walmart save will be spent somewhere else. And, the
economy of China is largely dependant on Walmart and Target. Who could afford a flat screen 52" LCD television were it not for these two retailers?

"I won't darken the door of a Walmart!" I don't care what kind a cheap crap they have in there!

The little guy is crushed again

The only thing worth buying there is food. Their electronics are junk.

Yes Walmart is ruining our Economy it takes away from a lot of businesses

They employee over 1 million Americans and they of course they have put smaller buisnesses out of buisness.................I have mixed feelings about them.

Learn about them. They are a bane to our country, and they love every second of it.

Yeah, I never shop their but then I think of all those that work for them that are not at the top and know how badly they need a job.

I had a friend that started working there a long time ago, he was no paid enough to move out on his own, but he was paid just enough to stay in a job he hated.

Sadly, I would bet there are alot of people working there trying to take care of their family because that is the only work they can find........today you have to take what you can get and sometimes more than one job until something better comes along.

Yeah. I haven't talked to him in a long time, so I don't know how he escaped, but I am pretty sure he has gotten out.

walmart has ruined alot of family run businesses

When Walmart began it had more American made products that its competition, now its competion still has no more American made.
There is a problem with the loss of manufacturing in America but it simply is not the blame of WalMart.

I can agree that there is a loss of American manufacturing that make companies look elsewhere, but when a vast majority of your business goes to one place, and that place stops buying your product, you don't always have the ability to recover. When Sam Walton died, the ideal of buying American went out the window. Bud and kids killed the dream. They made plenty of money doing it Sam's way. They make more now.

Did you know that they had a team of lawyers throwing money at congress to repeal an estate tax that would have cost them $30 million dollars? These people are worth more than $400 billion, and they are fighting over a pittance that was owed to the government.

Not everyone can afford going to the malls and it is a free world if you like wm than shop there if not do not shop there simple !!!!!!

People don't need Walmart's crap, but they did need the jobs and business opportunities that Walmart eliminated. It is not as simple as "don't shop there".

Are you going to force people to not shop wm or is it still our choice?

That wasn't the question, was it? I assume people are smart enough to make their own choices, but maybe I am wrong.

So government needs to make them for us ?????

Are you saying you're not smart enough?

I say I will do as I please none of your business I have made it on my own and deemed knowledgable to people I live near and I have not question your smartness only libs to that on SH !!!!

I am as smart as any progressive and what I do is my business !!!!

If you think that the decisions you make only affect yourself, then that probably isn't true. And if you think government making choices for us is the only alternative to people making dumb choices, then I seriously doubt your statement.

I have seen smarter rocks than you!!!!

Warren you are dumber than you realize !!!!!

Walmart is subsidized by taxpayers. The low price is not low when you take that into consideration. The cost has simply shifted.

Do let me know how Walmart is "subsidized by taxpayers". Please.

Welfare.

Obviously you haven't a clue what you are talking about. Walmart has nothing to do with "Welfare" except to redeem a lot of Food Stamps and employ a lot of people who otherwise might be drawing some sort of werfare benefits.

Actually, as a former employee, I know that part of their hiring packet includes an application for food stamps. They explain how to fill it out, making it all sound so normal that a job with a company as big as theirs would encourage their employees to leach of the system. Instead of paying them a better wage.

Also, they don't pay any taxes in any town that they build in for at least 5 years. In some cases, when the 5 years is up, and they cannot convince the town to give more extensions, all the while making it sound like a great idea, they will shut their doors and walk away, setting up in a neighboring town that agreed to give them a break on the taxes in exchange for jobs.

This ties in with my theory of the Oprahization of our society. We have two generations that believe they are entitled to the best of everything by their mere existence. Merit, effort, skill are all side issues. This plays into our schools, where parents will fight a failing grade even though their student doesn't deserve to pass. It plays out in businesses where marginal work is considered acceptable. It plays out in our government where more equals less. Walmart is simply a symptom of this mentality. It used to be that Walmart advertised they carried mainly American made products. But if nothing is made here, what should they sell? And if the demand for luxury items is such that people feel entitled to them, a business in order to stay in business must tap into that. This is the same conundrum that debates who is more at fault, the drug dealer or the drug addict. If there was no demand, no supply is necessary. So are we addicted to low prices because we think we are entitled to the best of everything? Look around you, how many people with baseline jobs have IPhones, get their nails done, have Starbucks every morning, drive a car on which they struggle to make payments. You have your answer.

Sam Walton would be rolling in his grave to see they sold his store out to cheap Chinese products. The store was founded on the Idea to buy as much American made products and merchandise as possible to fill the shelves with.

This worked great and helped our economy for a while. Now Wal Mart sucks the life out of small businesses everywhere that can not compete with the made in China stuff that is made by children for slave wages. The 24 hour mega centers suck the peace and quiet out of neighborhoods across the country.

So hop in your Japanese car and go to Wal-Mart and buy a Chinese made, American flag and wave it for Obama or Romney...

I think I'm going to emigrate.

That is good news for all of us.

People like you assure me I won't regret it.