Reply #28: Price of WalMart goods might be cheap [View All]

[MadHound]

But if you consider the full costs of bringing you those low low prices, you will find that WalMart is prohibitively expensive.

For instance, in every single town that WalMart moves into, for every job the store creates, two others in the community are lost. The goods that you see displayed, from produce to that little plastic doo-dad are overwhelmingly produced overseas. With either slave labor in China, or very low paid labor in other countries. It was this push by WalMart(and other smaller retailers) that rammed NAFTA through, and has cost this country virtually the entire manufacturing sector. Oh, and if you are against illegal immigrants, once again WalMart is part of the problem, since they vigorsly lobbied for NAFTA, which wiped out the Mexican agricultural sector, thus forcing tens of thousands of illegal aliens north, looking for any kind of work.

Also, WalMart doesn't give anything back to the community like a local, or even regional business does. Your local WalMart doesn't deposit the money it makes into a local bank, no, each and every night it ships it off to Bentonville Arkansas. Nor do local WalMarts buy any sort of newspaper ad space. In fact as it drives one business after another out of business, the local papers suffer or fail. WalMarts have regularly been shown to turn once thriving downtowns into blighted areas of poverty.

And as far as those low, low prices go, don't count on them to stay low, especially if you live in a small town. Once WalMart has driven every other relevant business into the ground, WalMart habitually starts jacking up prices, even beyond those of their former competitors. After all, they now have a captive audience, what are they going to do, drive sixty miles to the next town over?

Sorry friend, but the prices that WalMart charges aren't the only ones you're paying. Once you sit down and take into account all that WalMart is costing you, jobs, a vibrant town, pollution, slave labor, etc., you will find that you simply can't afford to shop there anymore.