>SNIP
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>>I see also now that they're changing their health plan to less coverage with a larger deductible. I'm sorry, but the folks running that company have no morals, no ethics, no compassion, and for sure, none of my money.
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>I'm 100% with you on this.
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>But keep in mind that WalMart is now the very model of an American "success story".
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>Your "no morals, no ethics, no compassion" is MBA training at its finest, backed up by LAWS regarding "fudiciary responsibility" to SHAREHOLDERS that lets them off-the-hook and able to sleep at night.
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>WalMart produces NOTHING et is the U.S.'s biggest/rishest business.
>WalMart has also been a huge boon to transport companies, causing manufacturing equipment to be disassembled and SENT to China and RECEIVING manufactured goods from China.
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>The supposed 'benefits' that WalMart has brought to (poorer) residents would have been much much bigger if WalMart had left manufacturers here and paid reasonable prices for products.

Do you remember when they first came to Canada, and their big marketing push was that they would be selling 'made in Canada' goods? I don't think their 'made in Canada' goods lasted long enough to cast a shadow.