I stopped giving Walmart my money...now Target gets it ALL!!

I was flipping the channels one day and came across a documentary on Walmart. I've never been partial to the store in my area as it's always staffed with the most incompetent and rude people and the store is always a mess. But often times there were items at Walmart that I either simply couldn't get at Target or the price difference was glaring.

But after watching "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" I was instantly moved and now refuse to give them any of my money. During the documentary the handling of environmental issues in the U.S., labor conditions in China, and the scores of empty Walmart lots all over the U.S. where the money could have been used to keep schools open was soooooo despicable, to the point that I had to replay the ENTIRE documentary the very next day just so Big C could watch and gasp....and gasp he did!!!

Some of the factual information they gave about the Waltons wealth compared to their charity contributions and the family as a whole was disgusting! And don't get me wrong, I'm not saying just because you're rich you have to give to charity...but "If you're going to do something do it well or don't bother doing it at all", is what my mother always said.

But don't worry I'm not stupid...I am completely aware of the fact that one, I'm sure some of the data was embellished for shock value and two, I'm sure other companies are guilty of similar practices but none have been highlighted in such a way.

But until I do further research or until Walmart itself refutes the claims...I'll just stick to the feelings I had to begin with (poor service all around) and tack the feelings from this documentary on for good measure and just steer clear of Walmart.

The synopsis from www.imdb.com was as follows:
"This documentary takes the viewer on a deeply personal journey into the everyday lives of families struggling to fight Goliath. From a family business owner in the Midwest to a preacher in California, from workers in Florida to a poet in Mexico, dozens of film crews on three continents bring the intensely personal stories of an assault on families and American values."

I also found this user comment from imdb.com witty:
"I wonder how this will play in the Red States, when they see the heartland raped and pillaged by The Walton family. When they see God-fearing, flag-waving patriotic Americans whose lives have been decimated by this Evil Empire in a Big Box. People might think that a documentary like this is the territory of the "Liberal Elite," but the liberals can live in their sophisticated cities where Walmart's presence cannot make quite as big a gaping hole in the local economy...but it is the rural, Bush-voting Red Staters that should be leading the rallying cry against this company. It is especially effective to see ministers preaching about how Walmart's values are not in line with the Christian faith.

Obviously, the creators had an opinion before they started this documentary, but the findings and facts are consistent with what the mainstream media reports about the way this company is run. The long arm of Walmart is dramatic enough without necessitating the filmmakers occasional lapses into melodrama, but the points are well-made and ignoring the facts presented in this film and continuing to support this Goliath in a blue smock could be our undoing-I hope this gets passed around from person-to-person faster than the Paris Hilton sex video and also hope we soon see a documentary on how Walmart collapsed like the Roman Empire."

Corey says I'm starting all kinds of trouble with my two most recent posts YEP that's ME!! LOL I just like things that make me think longer than a minute!!! Anyway for those who are interested the entire documentary is 97 minutes long, and I'm really not one to watch tv over the internet but if you are here you go: Walmart - High Cost of Low Prices