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Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price

2005 · Film · documentary · 98 min

Directed by Robert Greenwald

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This documentary takes the viewer on a deeply personal journey into the everyday lives of families struggling to fight Goliath. From a family business owner in the Midwest to a preacher in California, from workers in Florida to a poet in Mexico, dozens of film crews on three continents bring the intensely personal stories of an assault on families and American values.

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  1. Positivem463Mar 19, 2021

    I think this is obvious if you watch the walmart movie[1]

    There was an interesting scene in the movie where a small town was getting a new walmart, and they drove around downtown.

    They pointed at each of the stores and assigned values like "6 months" or "3 months" as an estimate of survival after they lost all their business to walmart.

    Another wave of change has been moving in slow motion for years with online purchases and local stores, but the pandemic has been a tsunami in comparison.

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wal-Mart:_The_High_Cost_of_Low_Price

  2. PositivespecialistOct 7, 2019

    Sam's Club (Walmart) != Costco

    Please refer to this documentary about Walmart. They're not just anti-labor.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wal-Mart:_The_High_Cost_of_Low_Price

    While Walmart didn't invent bad behavior, they're pretty good at it.

  3. NeutralBrandonMJul 6, 2010

    I don't know if it's changed in the last couple of years

    This remark was meant to apply to my entire comment, although I just realized it only appears to be talking about the sentence that follows it. Much of my information comes from the 2005 documentary Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, and cursory fact-checking I performed at the time that I watched it.

    What you've said sounds like a positive change to me. I've personally never seen security guards on golf carts, but I haven't been to Wal-Mart at night in a long time. If they have made that change, I applaud them, as well as the people behind the documentary who encouraged such changes.