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Director: Robert Greenwald
Put down your debit card and watch this documentary that reveals how Wal-Mart has managed to become the retail Godzilla that it is today. The argument is compelling in a Michael Moore kind of way, but forget any concept of balance in the filmmaker‘s viewpoint. Director Robert Greenwald would have been more persuasive if he had offered more comparisons between Wal-Mart and other large retailers, but it should serve to be thought provoking for the unconvinced, as self-righteous confirmation for those of us who have already turned against this monolithic monster.
Greenwald starts out by looking at long time retailers who were crushed by Wal-Mart and goes on to examine the company’s anti-union activities and its exploitation of government resources. He goes on to question the company’s behaviors in several other areas, that will hopefully cause consumers to take a hard look at which companies we support with our dollars.
How far will we allow corporations to go before we stand up to say ‘enough‘? How much does it take for us to say that we will no longer participate in the exploitation of workers both in our hometowns and throughout the world? How much money can a corporation take out of public coffers, before we call our politicians to task to account for allowing this? I don’t know.
