The High Cost of Low Prices

Wal-Mart was founded in 1962 by Sam Walton and is currently the largest retailer in the United States. Wal-Mart has thousands of chains and warehouses that dominate the retail industry in the United States. In addition, Wal-Mart is the second largest retailing company in the world and has 2 million people worldwide. As one of the world's most valued companies, Wal-Mart continues to grow sales at the lowest price each year. Wal-Mart's famous low cost guarantee is high environment, small business, education, consumer rights and security, but the most important are their employees.

Robert Greenwald's Wal-Mart termination sequence: At low cost, at high cost, visual images, running texts, camera effects, montage, background music, narration are used to create hope and urgency. Greenwald insisted that this obstacle could be blocked by some faithful citizen's behavior, the final sequence provides opportunities to identify tragic demands - especially pride and hope - and ambiguity We will provide it to students. Just as many persuasive articles end in an exciting 'calling action', the movie ends with a visual order - people unite and a company like Wal-Mart gets their community We must try not to destroy it

November movie Wal-Mart released: low price and high cost. Through interviews with employees and former managers, the documentary presented critical views on Wal-Mart's policy, particularly to Wal-Mart employees. In response to the release of this movie, Wal-Mart hired several former presidential advisers and organized a quick-response public relations team. In December, Wal-Mart founded an advocacy group named Wal-Mart Working Family led by former Atlanta Mayor and Andrew Young Ambassador to the United Nations.

According to Charles Fishman, author of the Wal-Mart effect, most of the crime of Wal-Mart occurred in the parking lot of stores in the 1990s and 2000s. Internal figures cited in the documentary "Wal-Mart: Low Price and High Cost" indicate that 80% of Wal-Mart's crimes occurred externally. In response, Mr. Fishman said the company is working hard to prevent criminal activity by adding surveillance cameras and better lighting. Today, most of the crime related to Wal-Mart seems to be occurring in the aisle of the store.

Wal-Mart's anti-union policy has also surpassed the United States. The documentary "Wal-Mart: Low Costs" shows that we succeeded in forming the Wal-Mart store in Jonquière, Québec in Canada in 2004, but Wal-Mart closed the store in 5 months . Union needs In September 2005, the Quebec Labor Relations Commission ordered an additional hearing on the possibility of compensation to employees, the closure of the Wal-Mart shop is the same as retaliation for union workers, but the details are obvious We decided not to.