For All the people who HATE Walmart

I have not set foot in a WalMart for ten years, and never will again. I do not need faulty logic and mega-business apologists to know, in my heart and in my soul, that that store is wrong, its massize market concentration is wrong, its merchandise is mostly crap, and it appeals to and fosters the lowest, most short-sightedly consumerism mentality among Americans.

I am proud NOT to shop at WalMart, ever --- "Low prices' be damned!

Where else can you exploit slave labor is such a friendly environment.

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Its pretty simple- Walmart is successful because they provide products that people want at cheap prices. Maybe a few of you hate their products and long for the local stores that were around before- but everyone else seems to be shopping there. It would be impossible for Walmart to be successful unless people wanted to buy their products- so stop blaming Walmart. If you took the Walmart away from our area in New York- a lot of poor neighborhoods would be doing worse off as the cheapest place to buy food and clothes is gone- and so are job opportunities they provided. Walmart employs a lot more people than 2 or 3 mom and pop stores and pay higher than minimum wage- with benefits. You don't get any of that at a mom/pop store why do people keep complaining about walmart's treatment of employees? I worked for Walmart before its not that tragic.

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'Slandered'? Don't you go a bit hysterical with the verbiage?

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The diversity of goods and services have already been vastly limited by the existing major global distributors.

The distributors control which companies succeed and which don't.

Already, far too many non-US distributors have far too much control over who succeeds in the US and who doesn't.

Walmart is certainly no friend of US companies already...heck, based on product selection, Walmart seems more Chinese-owned.

But just imagine what will happen if the US people manage to wipe out Walmart. There will then be absolute foreign control over distribution in the US.

It kinda makes me wonder where the majority of Walmart-hate comes from. Do they really destroy communities? Do they really *make* people shop there? Do they really take people's land...without the government's permission? Says who?

I first remember seeing Walmart hate in newspapers...which we know are straight up whores who are typically anti-US. After enough articles and stories were out, Walmart-hate achieved the "Tipping Point" and hating Walmart was the "in" thing...King of the Hill even had a Walmart-hate episode. But it seemed more like it was mocking the gullible suburbanites than proving that Walmart was destroying their community. And King of the Hill has been distributed by Walmart for years...so KotH producers don't have any real Walmart hate. No, that was all perpetuation of a stereotype. But really where did that stereotype come from.

Perhaps there are good reasons to hate Walmart, but I strongly suggest everyone check every single mass opinion we have. Most likely they were originated by the MSM...probably just another boogeyman in an endless parade of boogeymen used to scare us into giving up freedoms and rights.

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One woman documents an adventure in the world economy. In A YEAR WITHOUT MADE IN CHINA, Sara Bongiorni's family attempts to live without products from the world's biggest producer for one whole year.

This one backs up what Oruval has been saying:

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Dude. Chill. Please.

We have an election we need to do well in. Continuously harping on the most divisive points within the movement just to get a rise, isn’t exactly conducive to that.

And yes, free trade is good. No two ways about it. Thing is, in a free country with sound money and a properly sized government, companies like Wal-Mart would not enjoy the relative benefits to scale vis-à-vis smaller competitors they do now. Neither would Chinese producers vis-à-vis American ones. Which is likely why Wal-Mart, and China, lobbies to keep things the way they are, instead of supporting Ron Paul.

And I’m not saying Wal-Mart should somehow take it upon themselves to decide what is fair wages, and what are moral and amoral locations to produce goods in. They wouldn’t know how to do it even if they tried. Maximizing profits is the best they can do in a complex environment.

What does not, however, automatically follow, is that Wal-Mart is somehow a poster boy for free trade, or for freedom in general. All they have proven, is that they are uniquely apt at making money in a semi socialist/fascist political environment. Which may or may not correlate well with how they would fare if the country was free. And to the extent that Wal-Mart is optimized for our current political and economic climate, I would not be the least bit surprised to see them actively fight to maintain the status quo. After all, it is an environment they provenly know how to thrive in.

So, instead of showing off our grasp of Austrian economics by coming across as uncritically lauding a highly divisive corporation, let’s stick to what we can all agree on, which is, to the extent possible, getting rid of government. Or at least 95% of it. At all levels. Then, let’s see how competitive Wal-Mart is. After all taxes and unnecessary regulations are repealed at all levels of the domestic economy. And how well the big box retail concept in general fares, once we get rid of implicit subsidies in the form of publically funded roads and highways, and freedom robbing land use and zoning regulations preventing a denser mixture of residential and commercial development. My gut feeling is Wal-Mart would at least have to work on employee morale to stay competitive in such a world.

Anyway, if you live in a sales tax state, buy online from out of state. Wal-Mart is everywhere, and collects taxes for everything you purchase. If you really want to strike out at the elites and statists, pay your money to the UPS guy instead of the tax collector. Stiffing the taxman is always a good thing, Wal-Mart be damned.