Wal Mart has touchy feely add saying they save working families $2300/year.

By paying low wages and not offering health benefits to employees, that's all they save?

Let's do the math.

Average 40 hour week, yearly hours is 2000.

Subtract 52, for number of weeks in the year X 1, so employees only work 39 hours, relieving WalMart of all that extra paper work associated with paying benefits.

2000 - 52 = 1948

1948 X 6.15 = 11,980.20

... their workers health care, housing, etc. onto the government by paying their workers jack shit. Once you factor that in, being to buy cheap shit made by sweat-shop labor doesn't sound so great.

it costs them more than $2300 to get insurance.

replace all the crap that wore out or broke the first year, while inflation drives the prices up a tad higher than they paid for the junk the previous year.

Wal-mart does NOT save anyone any money. The merchandise is cheap and has to be replaced in a very short time.

to sell to them as cheaply as possible or else the manufacturer will be denied the privelege of having Wal-Mart stock their products.

Most of the savings do not get passed on to the consumer, but instead trickle up to the executives and Walton heirs.

...I can get much better deals at Fred Meyers and Safeway, UNION stores, and my sis got WAY better prescription prices at Costco. I talked her into trying Costco and when she compared the prices between Costco and WalMart she could not believe the difference. Even with her membership, she got a far better deal (she is diabetic). Costco also has better prices on most of their meats and produce and it is better quality. WalMart may have $50.00 TV sales, but they stink often on their regular prices. Their profit all goes to their CEOs and the greedy Walton family and they cheat their workers out of fair pay. I would not step foot in WalMart to save my life!

Cat In Seattle

they fleece Americans for billions. That IS the truth...

and whatever you do don't buy it at walmart (not that they'd sell this dvd)

http://www.walmartmovie.com/

you would have to spend thousands and thousands of dollars to save as much as $2300. (you would have to spend over $20,000 a savings of around 10% to have saved $2300!) :think: I doubt Walmart shoppers can afford to spend enough that they would save that much!