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"We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."
Ignore my balderdash and just watch part 1
In Circleville, Ohio, population 13,000, the local RCA television-manufacturing plant was once a source of good jobs with good pay and benefits. But in late 2003, RCA's owner, Thomson Consumer Electronics, lost a sizeable portion of its production orders and six months later shut the plant down, throwing 1,000 people out of work.
Thomson's jobs have moved to China, where cheap labor manufactures what the American consumer desires -- from clothing to electronics -- and can buy at "everyday low prices" at the local Wal-Mart.
There is a lot of opinion that the business practices of Wal-Mart are detrimental to the economic and social health of any town in which they build one of their stores. I have heard enough about it that I refuse to shop at Wal-Mart. All I can say is, investigate for yourself and then decide if you want to support this organization. A good place to start would be the PBS Fronline documentary here:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/
On the right hand side are links to the the streaming video of the show.
FRONTLINE explores the relationship between U.S. job losses and the American consumer's insatiable desire for bargains in "Is Wal-Mart Good for America?" Through interviews with retail executives, product manufacturers, economists, and trade experts, correspondent Hedrick Smith examines the growing controversy over the Wal-Mart way of doing business and asks whether a single retail giant has changed the American economy.
"Wal-Mart's power and influence are awesome," Smith says. "By figuring out how to exploit two powerful forces that converged in the 1990s -- the rise of information technology and the explosion of the global economy -- Wal-Mart has dramatically changed the balance of power in the world of business. Retailers are now more powerful than manufacturers, and they are forcing the decision to move production offshore."
There are many other resources on the internet for for Wal-Mart, just google "Wal-Mart" and after the first few positive hits you will start to find a lot of critical ones.
Just saying!
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