Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price • FULL DOCUMENTARY FILM • BRAVE NEW FILMS
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The film exposes Wal-Mart's unscrupulous business practices through interviews with former employees, small business owners, and footage of Walmart executives. SUBSCRIBE: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=bravenewfilms BRAVE NEW FILMS BOXED SET: http://www.bravenewfilms.org/10thanniversary (2:22) - How Walmart Destroys Communities - Whether it's a family rum hardware store or a small eye glass store, when Walmart opens in small towns like Middlefield, Ohio long established, independently run stores are hurt. The Hunter family open H&H Hardware in 1962. When a new Walmart was build in town, they were driven out of business. (15:20) - How Walmart Profits from Poverty (And Sticks Taxpayers With The Bill) - Walmart stores are frequently short staffed, not because they can't find workers but because they want to save on their labor experiences. This comes from the top, the corporate doesn't budget enough money for payroll. Because Walmart doesn't pay fair wages, their employers need to go on public assistance programs. (25:13) How Walmart Rolls Back Worker's Rights - Walmart is one of the most anti-unoin companies in America. Store managers keep an eye on employees they suspect are either sympathetic to unions or are active union organizers. (33:56) - Walmart Cheats Workers - It is estimated that they cheated workers out of $150 million dollars. Walmart would teach managers how to digitally change people's time cards as not to pay overtime and reduce store experiences. (44:35) -Subsidies - The subsidies Walmart gets from city governments takes funding away from public schools. When Walmart opened stored in Denver, they got $1.7 million in city subsidies, if the money had gone to the Denver Public Schools system, they wouldn't had have to shut down three schools. Subsidies also give Walmart an unfair business advantage over small, locally owned stores that offer better pay and benefits for their workers. (54:46) - Environmental Ruin -In Belmont, North Carolina, a Catawba Riverkeeper noticed that runoff from herbicides and pesticides was flowing into the river and polluting the town's drinking water. It was only after the local news aired a report on the water contamination that a local manager moved those toxic substance to a better storage site. The company's main offices were unresponsive. (1:00:10) - Imports From China - In China, factory workers can live in dorms owned by Walmart - workers pay rent and utilities. If they move out of the dorms, to live in a place not connected to Walmart, they still have to pay rent for the dorms. Workers work in factories with poor ventilation. They are told to lie to inspectors about how many days they work: six, when they really work seven days a week. All of this to make less than $3 a day. (1:12:33) - Greed - Lee Scott, the CEO of Walmart made $27,207,799 in 2005 when, the average Walmart hourly sales employee made $13,861 annually. The family who owns Walmart, the Waltons, is one of America's wealthiest family, yet they barely give anything to charity. They are worth $102 billion. (1:16:10) - No Security - Kidnappings, robberies, and car jackings...80% of crime that occurs at Walmarts in California takes place in the stores' parking lot, yet most of the stores' security officers are posted within the store. As early as 1994, Walmart knew that it had issues with its' parking lot security, but they hid these internal reports. They also knew that adding roving patrols in parking lots greatly reduce crime (1:25:06) - Taking Control - Walmart is a powerful corporation! However, we can beat them. Two communities, one in Arizona and another in Southern California did just that! They stopped a Walmart from coming into their communities. ABOUT BRAVE NEW FILMS Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films are at the forefront of the fight to create a just America. Using new media and internet video campaigns, Brave New Films has created a quick-strike capability that informs the public, challenges corporate media with the truth, and motivates people to take action on social issues nationwide. Brave New Films’ investigative films have scrutinized the impact of U.S. drone strikes; the war on whistleblowers; and Wal Mart’s corporate practices. The company’s films have received more than 56 million views online. WATCH our Feature Films - FREE! Set up a free screening in your community: screenings@bravenewfilms.org Like us on Facebook: http://www.Facebook.com/BraveNewFilms Follow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/bravenewfilms
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Geez, i really feel bad for the chinese workers :(
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Lee Scott has all the charisma of a skid mark on a hotel pillow case. A pathetic weasel of a man. People like him would have us work 8 days/ week if it were possible. They are leeches.
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"I'm not at all in favor of any kind of communism or socialism... I believe that America should always and forever remain free... However, I think that there need(s) to be regulations established"
I'm going to stop you right there. Regulations against corporations and workplaces abusing their workers and the environment were pushed for by socialists and communists. America is not free nor will it ever be because capitalism is not free in ANY sense. You are literally complaining about the inevitable result of capitalism while praising capitalism for its supposed "freedom". Sir, if you want to be intellectually consistent, please educate yourself and look outside of it. The State and its capitalism are what hold you in chains.
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Everything is a choice. You can shop the mom and pop stores if it means something to you. The first thing you vote with is the money that you spend. Ppl are waking up and recognizing finally that there are consequences to the choices that they make with where they spend their money. The civil rights movement taught us, Rosa Parks taught us a valuable lesson that when enough ppl take their money/business away from a particular enterprise, that enterprise is FORCED to respond in a morally responsible way. We do have the power to affect positive change in the society. I loved the very positive ending to a depressing documentary.. The wages really aren't that bad but few regular employees can get full time or get a set schedule where they can actually work a second job. Unless you're management, it's really not a career and most ppl move on to something that pays better eventually. There are other options out there. Walmarts wages are competitive with the rest of the retail industry and hardly the only retailer who receives cheap merchandise from China, they all do. I like how the documentary covered a universal range of issues from environmental impact to living standards for foreign workers to safeguarding the security of shoppers. They're the biggest and most profitable. Pressure must be put on them to do better
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Great video...!
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You Americans made Walmart what it is today greddy
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245 Walmart shareholders disliked this video. (edit: Wal-Mart)
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It's up to the people to end evil corporations, not the government regulating capitalism. Don't shop there or work there and Wal-Mart will crumble. They need us to survive and if this is how they're going to behave I say to hell with them.
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Fuck wally world...nuff said.
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Walmart sucks they are way off course from the days of Sam
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this is retarded america is a freedom country build any company you want
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film failed to mention the Chinese re-education(prison) factories manufacturing (wal)china-marts products
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People should be grateful for having a job. Think of all the people they employ and all the jobs lost if they shut Walmart down. Be grateful for small mercy.
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This video also left out some of the manufactures that walmart buys from that literally lock their employees in the building during their ridiculously lone work hours. Where in at least one occasion the building burned down killing the people locked inside.
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costco is cheaper
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when walmart have commercials on a video thats about exposing their business
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Then fuc_ the U.S. Labor department for failing to enforce the law!!! This sucks ass big time.
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i would like to thank this channel, and the people who made this documentary film, they did a great job with a lot of efforts. and great production many thanks.
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