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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is Trump anti-Walmart?  I don't think that he is.

Wal-mart is fine.  I shop there, I save money.  That is good enough for me.[/quote]

great

Then you can send your child overseas to work for Walmart, too, during the summers.

I posted this on another thread and someone called me a right-wing wingnut.  I'm a Dem, btw.

http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/lwp/NLC_childlabor.html
Children Found Sewing Clothing For Wal-Mart, Hanes & Other U.S. & European Companies

Here's one from NYT - http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/14/business/suit-says-walmart-is-lax-on-labor-abuses-overseas.html?_r=0

There are plenty of articles out there illustrating these abuses.

So Clinton condones these abuses b/c she's making money. That's the kind of president I want!

Vote Hillary!

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If you don't want to support cheap foreign labor, you better be making your own shoes and clothing or buying made in the U.S. (almost impossible to find.) 
I've made it a point to ask Wal-mart workers if they've worked for family owned retail previously, and many have. Almost without fail, their pay, hours and benefits are better at Wal-mart. There are many abuses by this company, no doubt, but as a journalist I investigated their wholesale buying practices, and was quite impressed. They rotate buyers in a way that prevents those with wholesale purchasing power from getting too cozy with suppliers. It results in higher quality products at lower costs, since the suppliers regularly have to prove themselves to new buyers.
I seldom shop at  Wal-mart - maybe once a year - but I think many Democrats act like simpletons when they demonize this company. The same goes for for Monsanto, whose products have had a major impact on increasing crop yields and reducing starvation in the developing world.
I'm a Democrat, but not a knee-jerk liberal.
I support Hillary Clinton because she is an intelligent woman who understands the complexities of legislation and foreign policy needed to move our nation forward.

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all the while taking kickbacks every step of the way

Give me a break.  Smart and ethical don't have to go hand-in-hand.

and Walmart?  treats its employees well!!  Hell!  Target pays more - except when it boils down to bonuses for managers.  For every story, there's always an anti-story.

[quote]One former Walmart store manager tells the story that after discovering a pro-union flyer in his store’s men’s room, he informed company headquarters and within 24 hours, an anti-union SWAT team flew to his store in a corporate jet. And when the meat department of a Walmart store in Texas became the retailer’s only operation in the United States to unionize, back in 2000, Walmart announced plans two weeks later to use prepackaged meat and eliminate butchers at that store and 179 others.[/quote]
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/how-walmart-convinces-its-employees-not-to-unionize/395051/

https://hbr.org/2006/12/the-high-cost-of-low-wages
The High Cost of Low Wages

[quote]Though the businesses are direct competitors and quite similar overall, a remarkable disparity shows up in their wage and benefits structures. The average wage at Costco is $17 an hour. Wal-Mart does not break out the pay of its Sam’s Club workers, but a full-time worker at Wal-Mart makes $10.11 an hour on average, and a variety of sources suggest that Sam’s Club’s pay scale is similar to Wal-Mart’s. A 2005 New York Times article by Steven Greenhouse reported that at $17 an hour, Costco’s average pay is 72% higher than Sam’s Club’s ($9.86 an hour). Interviews that a colleague and I conducted with a dozen Sam’s Club employees in San Francisco and Denver put the average hourly wage at about $10. And a 2004 BusinessWeek article by Stanley Holmes and Wendy Zellner estimated Sam’s Club’s average hourly wage at $11.52.

On the benefits side, 82% of Costco employees have health-insurance coverage, compared with less than half at Wal-Mart. And Costco workers pay just 8% of their health premiums, whereas Wal-Mart workers pay 33% of theirs. Ninety-one percent of Costco’s employees are covered by retirement plans, with the company contributing an annual average of $1,330 per employee, while 64 percent of employees at Sam’s Club are covered, with the company contributing an annual average of $747 per employee.[/quote][/quote]

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