Okay in the media there has been a lot of mention of Wal-mart lately! Did you know that there is a movie out about Wal-Mart? A movie for good-ness sakes, and they have some showings in the Toledo area for anyone interested or you could buy it on dvd for $12.95. I also understand that you can host a showing in your church, home, or town hall?!?!?!? For those of you who did not know this week is Walmart watch week or something like that!?!?!??! With the movie being the start of changing Americans and the way they shop and think about Wal-Mart. There are even websites about Wal-Mart and their evil ways. I read one email about all the crime, drama, and suspense that goes on in Wal-Mart World. Like that only happens at Wal-Mart? I shop there occassionally, personally I prefer Meijer for their produce dept. (hated it when they were remodeling), but is there something to all this media attention thing with "wally-world" as some like to call it? I am not sure I guess I would have to do some research and I am not sure if I really have the time to do all that! If other people would like to educate me then please feel free to do so. Until then we will have to wait and see what happens at "where the world of low prices get lower"!
http://walmartwatch.com/
http://www.walmartmovie.com/they have a trailer clip of the movie
http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/
a quote from this webpage
Wal-Mart is not just the world's largest retailer. It's the world's largest company--bigger than ExxonMobil, General Motors, and General Electric. The scale can be hard to absorb. Wal-Mart sold $244.5 billion worth of goods last year. It sells in three months what
number-two retailer Home Depot sells in a year. And in its own category of general merchandise and groceries, Wal-Mart no longer has any real rivals. It does more business than Target, Sears, Kmart, J.C. Penney, Safeway, and Kroger combined. "Clearly," says Edward Fox, head of Southern Methodist University's J.C. Penney Center for Retailing Excellence, "Wal-Mart is more powerful than any retailer has ever been." It is, in fact, so big and so furtively powerful as to have become an entirely different order of corporate being.http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html
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