It's another sad day where Americans learn the truth about Wal-Mart's business practices and the depths they will go to provide so-called low prices. |
More consumers don't just see Wal-Mart as a business, they see it is a social and political issue. Until Wal-Mart changes substantially, those consumers they are going after, who can make a choice about where they shop, will avoid Wal-Mart. |
None of the changes address the key point that a 'Wal-Mart bank' would result in a dangerous concentration of economic power which is bad for consumers, small business, and our nation's economy. |
Our hope is that what comes from this is that Wal-Mart will take seriously our concerns and millions of people who want to see Wal-Mart do the right thing every day, |
People are just beginning to realize how much power they have. |
Rather than address the serious issues of unaffordable health care, poverty wages, crime, and sprawl, Wal-Mart?s latest and greatest public relations stunt is to try to rebuild a fraction of the very communities and small business it has helped destroy. |
States like Maryland should be applauded, not sued, for trying to address the tragic fact that in state after state Wal-Mart forces taxpayers to subsidize its health-care costs. |
Stuck in the midst of a public relations quagmire that no other company faces, Wal-Mart realizes that it must change its faltering public image to ensure its future success. |
The Maryland bill is a responsible piece of legislation that will make sure that large employers live up to their health care responsibilities. |
The notion that Sam Walton cared about its workers, and the community, those positive aspects have gone. |
The truth is, Wal-Mart is feeding the Medicaid crisis in state after state by passing on their health care responsibilities to the American taxpayer. |
This is a desperate attempt to remake their faltering image. |
Wal-Mart is facing a perfect storm of negativity. People are rallying around this movement. It's not just workers. It's rippling out and becoming a real debate about values. |
Wal-Mart understands that they have a growing public relations disaster on their hands. American people are looking at a company with $10 billion in profit and $285 billion in sales that makes excuse after excuse about why it can't provide a living wage and health care to its workers. |
Wal-Mart wants America to believe it's responding to the growing calls for change, but real change is measured by positive actions, not empty words. |