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re: Wal-Mart, everything about them is scary.

-- They are requiring their top 100 suppliers to use RFID tags for
inventory control in what? six months? one year? meaning just about
everything you buy will have RFID tags soon, as you know a big company's
assembly line isn't going to *just* put them on the stuff going to
Wal-Mart.  http://news.com.com/2100-1022_3-1013767.html

-- They pay so little that a full-time worker at one of their stores
could not support their family above the poverty line *even if* that
person bought *everything* from the Wal-Mart where they work.  "At $7.50
per hour, a Wal-Mart worker makes $11,700 a year--nearly $2,000 below
the poverty line for a single mother with two children. In fact, the
majority of Wal-Mart employees working year-round, both full and
part-time, qualify for federally-funded food stamps. (Source:
www.walmartwatch.org) " http://www.lraonline.org/print.php?id=57

-- They dropped the "american-made" thing because so little of what they
sell is made here. They are probably one of the biggest reasons for
manufacturing jobs leaving the US, because they don't give a rat's a**
where they buy it from so long as its dirt cheap and highly profitable.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16685

-- Who cares if the bigger result of Wal-Mart coming to town is putting
all the locals onto unemployment? Even the poor still have to shop at
Wal-Mart 'cos they also drove all the mom&pop stores under and there's
nowhere else to go.    http://www.mainstreetinsights.com/whobenwmart.htm

-- They are being sued for across-the board discrimination against
women, among hundreds of other unfair-labor-practices lawsuits also out
against them.

check out these:
http://www.walmartwatch.com/

(scroll down to read)
http://www.calcsea.org/csd/unionworks/Cut2Chase.asp
"By manipulating employees' work schedules so that the majority are
part-timers, Wal-Mart provides only 40 percent of employees with
benefits. Wal- Mart essentially shifts its healthcare costs to
taxpayers, driving more than half of its employees to Medicaid."