Monday, October 17, 2005

Coming Soon: Tell-All WalMart Documentary

As Jib-Jab takes aim at Wal-Mart w/both barrels via their animation clip "Big Box Mart", the site of the preview for Robert Greenwald's Confessions of a Wal-Mart Hit Man just gives me even more hope that people truly are seeing Wal-Mart for the predatory corporation they really are. The transcript of the documentary can be seen here, and the most telling part of the preview for me is where the former Wal-Mart employee of 17 long yrs says that they would drive around a town where they just opened a new Wal-Mart and point at the local businesses and say "3 months", "6 months", "a yr"... as they predicted how long it would be before that local business closed. Instead of people working, being able to buy a house, send their kids to college, retire, have some money for a trip now and then, instead of this nice and comfortable-- not rich-- middle class exisitence, we have a Wal-Mart ghetto in every town, every town a company town, every town owned by Wal-Mart. It is nauseating. And didja know that Wal-Mart owns 25% of the toothpaste industry? So, if you do happen to lower yourself to shopping there, please... DO NOT buy toothpaste. They are counting on you to buy it. By all means... dental hygiene is paramount. Just don't buy toothpaste at Wal-Mart. And if you won't do it b/c I asked you... then do it for Betty and her healthplan and diet.
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