Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Tacticalin An absolute waste of money

Blake Rivera If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

freakfire-1 Well, this movie did fail to be entertaining in many areas but it did hit on some key notes. Yes, they do drive down wages, although providing more jobs. That is a catch-22.Some people have commented they have good wages. That is not the case as they don't pay too much higher than the minimum wage in most areas and fail to check on immigration status. I even know times they fail to check AGE status, hiring underage workers and failing to catch their real age.As far as not being able to move of the 'food chain' in the store, that is also generally correct for the most part. The only way to make a good wage there is if you enter the Assistant Manager program and they can ship to several different areas.The film notes times when they have been turned down recently. However, several of those cities listed near the end of the film have come back and accepted Wal-Marts to be built.This film shows the downsides to this corporation. Wal-Mart goes for the cheapest in many ways and avoiding paying higher wages. But if you get down to it, other businesses (like minerals, etc) that also pay low wages to keep the cost down, so Wal-Mart isn't the only one, just the biggest one.Overall, its not that even handed, but it does make the public more aware of its bad side. "C"

StevePaget This is a documentary about Walmart: the big US supermarket corporation which also owns Asda in the UK. You can tell by the title that the film-makers have a problem with the way Walmart operates, and this film examines some of their business practices and aims to show that there is something rotten going on.We all know how this sort of film works. There's a new breed of feature-length "issue" documentary, typified by Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9-11 and Sicko and Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me. They use a combination of humour, narration and interview footage to convince us about their cause. Even if we don't agree with their conclusions, or we doubt that they're telling us all the facts, we can still find them entertaining.Unfortunately, this movie fails on both counts. It's not particularly entertaining, nor does it do a good job of persuading. At least, it failed to persuade me that Walmart was any more evil than any large company. The main criticisms that the movie made seemed to be that Walmart is so popular that smaller businesses are driven out of town, and that they do not give their employees many perks, such as health-care. Neither argument really wins for me, and they are presented in an overly mawkish and sentimental way. Members of the public are wheeled on to give their own sob story, usually about how their health has suffered/they have lost money/their cat was killed because of the evil organisation under scrutiny. Michael Moore is often guilty of the same offence, to be fair. Then, sprinkled among the pathos, there is usually some light relief. But Walmart: The High Cost Of Low Price fails to deliver the laughs, leaving us with a movie in which a succession of people moan about nothing in particular.I expect that this film will be enjoyed by people with an axe to grind over big business, but it's easy to preach to the choir. To the innocent bystander, it's a waste of time.

jimthehiker-1 What is the issue here? Don't we live in America where capitalism is what builds and strengthens our country. I saw the video on Direct TV in the middle of the night. Otherwise I would not have bought such propaganda.The film mentioned how Wal-Mart Is unfair to its employees, (ie: discrimination, poor wages, cheating the workers of overtime pay, etc...). How is the supposedly unfair working conditions different than any other employer in the U.S.? I looked into the insurance policies for example, and Wal-mart does provide insurance to all of it's employees, part-time or full time. The ratio of dissatisfied employees are no more than you would see at any other job. If an employee is that dissatisfied let them find another job. Maybe that is why Wal-mart has so many employees. Wal-Mart has found the key to success and everyone else feels cheated, (if you want to complain about a monopoly attack Microsoft).I do not work, but I do shop at Wal-mart, and enjoy the low prices. Yes the merchandise comes from other countries, but again give me a store that only sells merchandise from the U.S. and no one will shop there because of the extreme high prices (UNIONS HAVE IMPOSED BECAUSE OF SUPPOSEDLY FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS).I live on the Texas-Mexico border and if not for Wal-Mart the town would not be what it is. Wal-Mart sells items that would normally be 150 miles away because of the remoteness of our town. Wal-Mart sales come from shoppers that live in Mexico, so that is foreign money coming in. Wal-Mart provides a lot of jobs to the citizens here. Talk about pay, Wal-Mart pays higher than the minimum wage. If you want more pay than get an education.You have to realize the movie is extremely one sided. Stop complaining and start a business that will compete with Wal-Mart.

isaackamp This film analyzes wal-mart's worst business practices and gives the truth about large corporations. It does leave out some important questions, but overall (if you cross-reference the statistics) it is a relatively accurate film. It has already received criticism from fanatical economic conservatives, and some extremist liberals as well. I have heard wal-mart defended as offering better conditions than other companies in third-world nations. True, but they are still not suitable. Just because something is less messed up doesn't mean its acceptable. And yes, this film exhibits a bias toward socialist health care, but come on here- the only real defense against a fair health care system is that the poor should somehow be able to always scrape themselves off the bottom of society and pay- not gonna happen. Anything less than that is idealistic.