Wal-Mart. The High Cost of Low Price

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Wal-Mart has become one of America's most successful retail chains by offering everyday goods at low prices for working families. Documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald takes a look inside the discount retailer's empire and discovers a company short on scruples and long on shabby treatment of workers. From crushing small businesses to relying on government assistance programs to subsidize poor wages and inadequate benefits, and from practicing anti-union tactics to ignoring environmental violations, Wal-Mart’s unethical business strategies are revealed in this film. Greenwald uses statistics andinterviews with former employees and insidersto provide an objective analysis of Wal-Mart’s impact on individuals and communities.

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1 hr 37 min 43 sec

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