10.17.06
Think twice about shopping at Wal-Mart
The savings you get comes out of the skin of the workers—the workers in the stores here (who are fired before they get much (expensive) seniority), the workers in the third-world countries that make the goods. Wal-Mart is a brutal company, and it never hesitates to exploit its workers as much as possible—for example, assigning those who are slightly infirm to tasks involving much physical effort, so that they will quit rather than use the (meager) health benefits. It’s an ugly, ugly company.
