We can say that people are getting what they deserve, but let's not forget that there are a lot of people in America who can't afford to ignore Walmart prices. Since the recession, the economy hasn't bounced back to what it was, and too many jobs that have appeared are lower paying than they were before the banks and Wall Street traders had such fun screwing America.
I don't buy at Walmart except for one item, a prescription. I have to get that there because of the price. But I won't buy at a place like that, no matter what else happens. They hire a lot of single mothers, who are then paid such a low wage that they need to use food stamps and other gov assistance. They also make those women work holidays and weekends when they know that there are children at home with only one parent to raise them.
Walmart went into my hometown several years ago (that's in Nebraska - I live in Oregon now) and made a ton of promises. They hired a lot of people, made promises to all of them, got the store set up, then let 80 people go. They had the prices so low the small local groceries couldn't compete. They were driven out of business. Then Walmart raised their prices to what they normally charge.
Walmart has since expanded their store to drive the small local hardware and clothing stores out of business. My town was suffering, and the people needed the low prices. But they didn't think about what was quietly happening when they shopped at Walmart to make ends meet. This scenario is being repeated all over America in small towns. The economy was so bad that people shopped there because they needed every break they could get. My hometown now shops at Walmart, because it's the only game in town.
I was reading about a plot of land that was secretly sold to Walmart for a store without the local people knowing about it until it was too late to stop it. As Walmart's tactics are becoming known, they know they are unpopular. So do they change? No. They become sneakier about coming into small towns.
In the meantime, the Waltons are living like the billionaires they are, with no conscience about the single mothers they hire for slave wages or the small towns they ruin with shady business practices.
