Walmart will often truck in workers from anti union stores as "temps" when there is a union vote going on in a store to change the balance of a vote.

Walmart has been one of the most destructive forces in the economy. Because of their scale of size, no small retailer can compete. Stores and businesses soon close down, and 3 years later all the discount tires are restocked from the bankruptcies. The other reason they are cheap is because of their horrendous human resource record, minimum wage and part time jobs to avoid paying benefits. The goods are cheaply imported from countries that pay only pennies in basically semi slave conditions. People flock to Walmart not realizing what is happening with the loss of local businesses that were making small profits, but in the community.

The Walmart progeny are still all in the top 20 richest people in America .... But they give 2 %

Their food? Monsanto would be so proud. Their corporate farms? Animals basically in tortured conditions, force fed, no room, no human can breath in the air, animals being fed corn which is killing the population, but fattens animals cheaply and quickly, dairy cows with open stomached because they don't digest it properly ...

Buy local
Buy Canadian
And never enter a Walmart if you are a union supporter as no other company works so hard to stop any unions. ( if they had to pay proper wages there prices rise)

This idea of paying labour the minimum to maximize profits to shareholders is why there is such a separation between the classes. Only investors make money, labourers are sacrificed for profit.

Here's another' 80% of American wal mart employees are on food stamps.
80%!! that's insane.

Ill just leave this here. :)

http://youtu.be/Jazb24Q2s94

Well, here are two facts that this "super market tabloid" site didn't include.

Norway operates a Petroleum Fund that now sits at $600 billion in total.

That Fund is guided by its "Environment Board" which investigates corporations on their environmental standards, practices and footprint before the Fund invests in that corporation via the stock market.

A few years back, that Fund withdrew its stock investment in Walmart.

The reason being was the "sheer cost" to the environment that it took to place ONE item on a Walmart store shelf!

And, of course, this tabloid site neglected to mention Walmart's recent $24 million worth of bribery money delivered to Mexican government officials to enable them building stores in key districts across Mexico with one being on top of a major heritage site.

Maybe HuffPo could develop an Environmental Board to monitor articles they present to the public or at least critique them with some "investigative" journalism!

Most of the facts are pretty sad statements about this business.

Two of the facts of the about Walmart are the same, only expressed differently. I wonder how many people have never shopped at Walmart or less than 4 times a year.