- Sells food, clothing and other necessities to Canadians, Americans and others at prices that are 15 to 25 per cent below what other supermarkets charge; this helps millions of low-income families stretch their dollars.
- Pushes the inflation rate down and helps keep interest rates low; this comes in handy for millions of families when borrowing to buy a house or household appliances.
- Disburses $415 million in cash and in-kind merchandise annually to 100,000 charitable organizations around the world.
- Pursues environmental sustainability; sells more organic produce than most retailers; works with the Clinton Foundation to lower prices on sustainable technologies such as energy-efficient lighting and building materials; has opened the first in a series of high-efficiency stores that will use 20 per cent less energy than a typical Wal-Mart. And its proposed Vancouver store is more environmentally friendly than any building in the Lower Mainland.
All of this was made possible by Wal-Mart's innovations.
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The part about good organic food was quite amusing - All I have ever seen in a Wal-Mart 'food' section are spam, hotdogs, and ding dongs. I go there to buy party snacks or milk, period.
The Wal-Mart secret police are particularly amusing, view their antics around any attempt to unionize staff, where they will assign plain-clothes store security to tail people and intimidate them - kind of like those creepy ads recently where the Wal-mart employees follow people to their homes and even into their bedrooms to keep telling them of the amazing deal they got.
Yah, Nobody beats their prices. Just make sure you send a cheque for at least ten bucks to the little girl in China that made your fat-ass jeans, asshole.
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“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”
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