Wal-Mart the high cost of low prices.

[Death Aflame]

I would say more or less, though the question you posed indulges an overly simplistic answer.

What I was trying to get at, however, is the idea that Wal-Mart is anti-free market.

 

[Dak]

if "minimum wage" were increased up to a "living wage" then all the mom-and-pop stores would be replaced by walmart target K-mart and 7-11, but, again would that really be bad?

minimum wage going up would (initially) make "mr walton" loose money, but it would be such a tiny fraction of a fraction that he wouldn't notice the money was gone, you'd have to actually tell him that min wage went up, and i've been told that mr walton's kid has actually declared that he's against min wage going up, but i guess as long as min wage stays underneath a "living wage", then the mom-and-pop stores should be okay

I missed this older post, but this is uneducated economic bullshit.

 

[Donar Wotansohn]

I don't even know what to say about this....

 

[monoxide_child]

Wal-Mart is anti-free market.

yes
that was the whole freaking point of this thread

 

[Boxcardummie]

I think that they're mostly criticisms of capitalism as opposed to Walmart specifically

A smart man! HA.

They actually get paid a bit more than min wage. Plus a lot of people need the work Walmart brings.

 

[monoxide_child]

I don't even know what to say about this....