Review – Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price

For a low-budget propaganda piece, this one isn’t half bad. A lot of the arguments made about the subject company (discrimination, unfair labor practices, general greed) apply to a lot of other companies as well. But Wal-Mart is one of the more visible success stories in the evil corporation market and thus a perfectly legitimate target for this sort of attack. A few of the people victimized by the Wal are a little hard to feel sorry for, particularly the conservative small businesspersons. Voting Republican and then complaining when a huge corporation snuffs out your mom-and-pop hardware store is a bit like voting Democrat and then complaining when your taxes go up. On the other hand, it’s a lot easier to extend sympathy to the “associates” who work full time for the Waltons but still end up on welfare. And don’t even get me started on the foreign sweat shop segments. The disc version is worth a look, particularly for the parody ads created to help promote the movie. Mildly amusing