Wal-mart America

Wal-Mart,

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Footprint of Walmart stores within the United States. Areas with more than one branch have progressively larger points. Alaska not to scale with the rest of the map. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

a store that prides itself on incredibly low prices and good customer service.  Many people don’t know the other side of Wal-Mart and other big Corporations like it.  In this article I will show you 3 reasons why Wal-Mart is bad for America.

A protest in Utah against Wal-Mart (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

1) They send American jobs overseas to China.  There would be millions of more jobs for Americans if Wal-Mart would stay here with their products.  Excuse me, Wal-Mart makes the companies that sell products in their stores meet a certain price.  The way to make that price the least it can be, most jons are sent off to China where wages are minimal.  

Inside the Walmart (still branded as Wal-Mart) at West Plains, Missouri. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

2) Wal-Mart puts big companies out of business.  Rubber-made, a self made company that sold rubber products for cheap in Wal-Mart stores had a rough patch.  In this “Rough patch”, the price of rubber almost doubled, making the price of their products go up.  Thus, in return, they were not able to meet the low price that Wal-Mart would accept.  They had to sell their products so cheap that they were losing money.  Wal-Mart soon bouth them out, after the company went bancrupt.  This has happenned with several companies.

Supermercado de Wal-Mart in Spring Branch, Houston – Neighborhood Market Store #3578 – 7960 Long Point Road at Wirt, Houston, TX 77055 Español: Supermercado de Wal-Mart en Spring Branch, Houston – Neighborhood Market Store #3578 – 7960 Long Point Road y Wirt, Houston, TX 77055 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

3) You might think, hey, they are creating a ton of jobs aren’t they? Yes they are, but… they are destroying more.  Small shops cannot stay afloat with a corporation next store due to the insanely cheap prices.  Are low prices even a good thing? Think about it.