I am so sick and tired of people slaming wal-mart for making money. Hello we live in america were the last time i look people started stores to make money!!!
I am happy to see that wal-mart is triing to bring something to those areas that make them feel like AMERICANS again.

Walmart is not a communities friend.. only a clever marketing scheme to appear to care. Low pathetic pay, no insurance for their working poor and hey, lets make a killing on poor folks who have little alternative but to buy of them in hurricane ravaged areas! Yes, our stock will soar! No shopping choices mean record reveneus for Walmart...whoopie. I am disgusted by Walmart. I also encourage the American people to show true support for its working poor and stop buying from these greedy coporations.

Gee! Doesn't anyone remember when "WOOLWORTH & SS Kresge (Later K-mart)were the "bigdogs"? Did America "complain" back then that these 2 "BIG RETAILERS" were destroying the "mom & pop" shops in our country? Looks to me that WalMart is not much different than they were (are). Thank goodness for freedom of speech. Thank-You to WalMart whom chose to come to our little town & offer us a needed place to shop. NOTE: Guess What? The mom & pop stores in our town are still open & providing what WalMart doesn't.

WALMART IS GREAT ! IF PEOPLE DON'T LIKE WORKING THERE LET THEM GO ON WELFARE AND FEEL LIKE BUMS. AT WALMART THEY ARE CONTRIBUTING TO SOCIETY PROPERLY AND THEY ARE WELL TREATED AND PAID ADEQUATELY !!

Walmart and Sams are the only stores that treats its customers like thieves on the way in the store , and on the way out of the store. They check my bags and my reciepts to see if I stole anything. What a slap in the face.

The only reason they have a door greeter is to make sure that you do not steel anything.

No other stores check peoples bags and reciepts.

Walmart and Sams do not know how to treat there customers with respect.

Shop at Target, they have quality products, great employees, great service, and they do not treat there employees like thieves.

Go Target.

In my opinion, because I have that right. If you do not like Walmart then dont shop there it's that easy. There are many people who will still shop there no matter where they get the stuff from. And about the low wages and no health insurance that they offer, well thats a choice the employees took when they were hired.....look at the bright side they at least have a job and not making a line at the unemployment office.

It's amazing to see that the very Americans who benefit most from free trade complain so bitterly about its costs. If Walmart was not selling, then who would be? It seems that some would rather the people living in these hard-hit regions do without rather than purchase from a willing seller. You who sit safe and warm indoors writing, why don't you stop using shampoo and toilet paper this eveing, and see if you would then perhaps like to buy from whomever is selling. Walmart lowers prices because it uses cheaper (i.e. often foreign) labor. Wouldn't it be great if those workers could earn American-level salaries? Of course it would. Of course, to do that, we'd have to double or triple prices across the board for all items, thereby triggering the collapse of our economy (which, as it comprises about 25% of the world economy, would surely bring about a similar collapse the world over). Are we really so short-sighted that we don't think of these things? And the foreign workers that now earn something (albeit to some, not enough), would earn nothing. My, how helpful to them. Dreams are wonderful; idealism carried too far is a nightmare.

My hat is off to Wal-Mart for what it is doing. We still live in a capitalistic society but I am not certain that what Wal-Mart is doing in this area is going to turn them a profit. I feel it is being done more to help and provide the essentials that people need. It also is putting some people back to work and getting the economy rolling this hard hit areas.

Target? Where's Target in any of this. Never saw Target out there. On the other hand Wal-Mart was there helping my organization deliver aid to the folks in Pascagoula, MS. Yes, of course a business is after the buck as someone said. That is what a business does. Walmart is not a humanitarian effort. However, when push comes to shove they do what they can above and beyond reason to help folks in their community. As for globilization issues, as consumers we will have to make our desire known. It will be argued the consumers already are. Where do you spend your money? Do you really put an effort into buying more expensive american goods? Until we all do things wont change.

I like Wal-Mart, there is nothing anti-American about making a profit!

The founder worked 15 hours a day for over 20 years. Many people should emulate his example.

the wider world is watching,how corporate has taken over america and everywhere walmart operates.the are in business not to help u the man with little money .they are there to exploit there workers and make as much money as possibe.so america wake up. why are they rejection unions at there stores ,simple reason they can exploit individual workers

After reading the pros and cons about Walmart.Did any one think what would happen without them.If you do not like Walmart go to K-Mart (That is if you can find one)If you do not like the wages that Walmart pays then do not work for them.Lets ask Walmart to give all employees a $2-3 dollar an hour wage increase,but remember don't complain when thewy have to raise their prices. You cannot have it both ways.

If there is a buck to be made Walmart is there. Putting up a tent.....that sounds about like Wal-Mart it sure doesn't surprise me. They do not give anything away not even praise for their employees. So many other mom and pop stores have gone out of business because of conglomerates like Wal Mart what about those jobs? Wal-Mart should be thanking the people who shop there instead of those people thanking them.

America was built on the dream of being ran by the people...which includes commerce. Now this entire country is ran by corporations such as Walmart. This country is no better or no freer than anywhere else. Facts: AS the world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart is setting the standard for America's workplaces and it's a standard of low pay, poor benefits and abuse of workers that working families cannot accept.
Taxpayer burdens: Wal-mart's low wages and poor benefits force many workers to rely on public aid. taxpayers spend about $420,750 a year on public aid programs for EACH Wal-Mart store with 200 workers b/cuz Wal-Mart workers can't afford health insurance or food for their children. (University of California Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education 08/04) So they money you think you are saving you actually make up in raising taxes and promoting poor Americans and globalization. Our country is falling apart at a quick rate due to corporations like Wal-mart...I am sorry who said they shopped at Wal-Mart

I work at a Wal-Mart in Minesota and I use to think that Wal-Mart was the best place in the world to work but I know longer think this is true. A company that rich have such crappy insurance.Myself along with so many co-workers can't afford the insurance.We can't afford to be sick.You have sick time and you can't use it. You have to be off (2) days to get paid for (1)day which I think Sucks!!!!!!!! The only job I know does that.

America was built on the dream of being ran by the people...which includes commerce. Now this entire country is ran by corporations such as Walmart. This country is no better or no freer than anywhere else. Facts: AS the world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart is setting the standard for America's workplaces and it's a standard of low pay, poor benefits and abuse of workers that working families cannot accept.
Taxpayer burdens: Wal-mart's low wages and poor benefits force many workers to rely on public aid. taxpayers spend about $420,750 a year on public aid programs for EACH Wal-Mart store with 200 workers b/cuz Wal-Mart workers can't afford health insurance or food for their children. (University of California Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education 08/04) So they money you think you are saving you actually make up in raising taxes and promoting poor Americans and globalization. Our country is falling apart at a quick rate due to corporations like Wal-mart...I am sorry who said they shopped at Wal-Mart

People need to stop complaining about Walmart. I notice the people who pretend not to like Walmart are usually from an upperclass area like the lady from Colorado, where they obviously have all the extra money they need, theorizing about whether the rest of us are being hurt by Walmart. I for one respect Walmart; you can walk into a Target and you always get half the selection of any particular product, usually sold at about twice the price of Walmart. The same is true with food. A pizza that Walmart always sells for $3.00 will be $5.99 at any of the gimmick club-grocery stores that fill states like California like Vons, Ralphs, etc. There are millions of employees who qualify for jobs at Walmart and always will--that's why they are there. When they truly feel underpaid and overqualified, then they can and do go elsewhere and take management positions or other types of careers. Walmart is smart for figuring out how to sell things at low prices. Obviously the benefits aren't that good. It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that your job at the Dollar Store is not going to get you a real career, unless and until you make yourself worth being picked for management, etc.
Walmart is just like every other--and I mean EVERY--company who is in business to make profit, and also tries to look as good as possible by being involved charitably to some small extent. There is no such thing as a corporation with a heart, nor should there be, and those who expect this must not understand what a corporation is designed to be. A corporation is like a cooperative--it is a group of people none of whom are individually liable the results (therefore the face of the company will lack emotion) and all of whom benefit (jobs and profit) from its existence.
Go ahead and shop at Vons, get a bag of groceries that Walmart would have sold you for $19, and pay $35 for it. That kind of stupidity and lack of shrewdness is actually what makes the poor poorer. I worked at Walmart for some time. The work was hard and the pay was low. As soon as I was qualified to move on in life, I did. I didn't fault the company for its payrate, I focused on bettering myself so I could move up to a job that required more out of me, and paid more to me. That is called "Capitalism". It is a self-improving cycle that requires planning and sacrifice and pays great rewards. Those who are trying to make a career out of being a cashier and then wonder why it is difficult to raise a family have a flaw in their own strategy. Certain jobs simply are low paying jobs and always will be, because that is the profit margin they demand and that is the employment market they can sustain. Just because one discounter becomes a giant and maintains constant worldwide attention, doesn't mean it's policies are any more evil than any other high-volume, low-margin business that requires minimal skills and pays accordingly!

Walmart is a disgrace to our community. Their store is a hideous sight, and highly visible. The money earned by its empoloyees makes no difference to the local economy. Strongarm tactics regarding buying power, while legal, are disgusting.

The same ideas that others want for WalMart. Is the very reason that auto firms, steel companies are on the ropes.

If one does not like goods made in China then don't buy them. You do have a choice.

If one does not like WalMart shop the others stores.

I did not have a problem with Wal Mart being a regular sized store and it was even better when Sam Walten was alive. However, now we have 2 Super Walmarts and they are Knocking out all of the little buisnesses in town, which is less than 75,000 people. I shop there as little as possible preferring ShopKo.

As a Wal-Mart associate may I say: that after working for 2yrs. at Wal-Mart I am now making $8.55 an hour, not great pay but better than $6.00 an hour which I was making after working at Sears for two years and they gave me a penny raise to bring me up to $6.00. So Wal-Mart isn't any worse than any other corporation. I haven't see or heard any thing about Sears, Target , K-Mart & Etc. helping out the people after Katrina. Also all the managers for Wal-Mart have a certain amount of money taken out of their pay each payday to be put in a fund to help out in emergencies, the managers alone donated $150,000.00 to the Katrina relief. That's more than any other corporation or our president did.

Walmart is in business to make money. It's the American way. For all of the people that say that Wal-mart doesn't pay enough. How much would you pay someone to do an entry level job that requires very little education and training. Not very much if you want to make money. The problem is that everyone wants something for nothing. If you want to make more money and live a comfortable life you have to work hard and get an education. Not work at Walamrt with a 5th grade education. No one forces people to work at Walmart, they choose to. Everyone that feels sorry for the "underpaid employees of Walmart", start a business yourself and pay them $15.00/hr to run a register or stock shelves. People shop Walmart because they have the lowest prices. Walmart get a bad rap because they are the biggest on the block and everyone want to cut them down to bring them down to thier level instead of working to rise up to them. Alot of people complain about them but they all shop thier.

This reads like WalMart propaganda posing as news.

ALL I know that Wallmart took K-Mart a brand new
Store right out with Products made mainly in China.
What ever happen with MADE IN AMERICA????????????

It's not Walmarts fault that retail works the way it does. They didn't set up trade regulations that enable retailers to have everything we want imported from 3rd world countries at half the cost of manufacturing locally; and as long our schools continue to pump out kids who are not sufficiently educated to work above minimum wage Walmart will never want for a work staff.