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A look at the impact of the retail giant on local communities.A look at the impact of the retail giant on local communities.A look at the impact of the retail giant on local communities.
Lee Scott
- Self - President & CEO of Wal-Mart
- (archive footage)
John Bruening
- Self - Owner of Geauga Vision
- (as Dr. John Bruening)
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- TriviaThe parodies of Wal-Mart ads that appear in the film, and were used as trailers, which appear to have been shot in Wal-Mart stores are actually greenscreen shots in which the performer has been composited.
- GoofsAt the start of the section where a market trader in London, England is leading a campaign against a new ASDA store, the map has has both Wales and England labelled as 'England' - the 'Eng' is written over Wales. Wales and England (and Scotland) are part of Great Britain; Great Britain, Wales (and Scotland) are not part of England.
- ConnectionsFeatured in 'Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price' - Behind the Scenes (2005)
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I saw this tonight in a screening at our local community college with the producer present. It was a huge, standing room only crowd, and it was clearly a hit with the viewers. Producer Robert Greenwald uses an interesting device of running a rah-rah speech of WalMart's CEO at a company meeting, with the CEO bragging about all of WalMart's great policies towards employees, the environment, customers, etc., alternated with clips of dozens of ordinary people testifying to quite the opposite. The stories of small town businesspeople having to close their family stores were especially poignant, as well as the interviews with exploited overseas workers in Walmart's sweatshops. Even one of the company's plant inspectors said he just cried when he went back to his hotel after his first inspection.
Full of astounding facts about the true costs of WalMart, the over two billion dollars it has cost US taxpayers in subsidies, welfare programs for underpaid employees, etc. It became very clear that, whether or not you shop there, it's costing you money, money that's going right into the pockets of the Walton family. It's costing all of us our way of life.
Quite an eyeopener. I, for one, plan to never patronize WalMart again.
Full of astounding facts about the true costs of WalMart, the over two billion dollars it has cost US taxpayers in subsidies, welfare programs for underpaid employees, etc. It became very clear that, whether or not you shop there, it's costing you money, money that's going right into the pockets of the Walton family. It's costing all of us our way of life.
Quite an eyeopener. I, for one, plan to never patronize WalMart again.
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- susan-225
- Nov 18, 2005
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- Wysoki koszt niskich cen
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- $1,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $47,197
- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005) officially released in Canada in English?
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