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[casapazzo]

The Wal-Mart you don’t know - "The real story of Wal-Mart, the story that never gets told, is the story of the pressure the biggest retailer relentlessly applies to its suppliers in the name of bringing us "every day low prices." It's the story of what that pressure does to the companies Wal-Mart does business with, to U.S. manufacturing, and to

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[andthenbuyfood]

I briefly had a one-woman boycott of Wal-Mart going after reading about their labor practices and everything, but I realized it was just pushing me to go to Target instead, and my guess is that they aren't a whole lot better on things. Also, my one-woman boycott was really only negative for the one-woman, who needed contact solution, cheap popcorn and new socks very badly.

[casapazzo]

oh, alas. ::pets:: well, at least you tried.

[phillyexpat]

I was just having a similar conversation with my parents about Wal-Mart. More specifically, I said "Wal-Mart is evil and I hope it rots in hell." Not sure if a mega-lo-mart can technically rot in hell, but you get the gist.