Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Walmart is the corporate devil


Walmart may be trying to position itself as a sustainable company, but according to the food and water watch, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving peoples lives and protecting our environment, they are not doing a very good job of proving it.
Here's what they concluded:
  1. Selling shoddy products- by selling these low cost items they are driving down the quality and durability of these product which in turn speeds up the process of the items to the landfill.
  2. Reduction in waste is minuscle compared to waste generated
  3. Lagging on Renewable Energy 
  4. Increasing GHG emissions- their greenhouse gases have been steadily increasing. In 2012 the company said in its Global responsibility report that it 22 million metric tons of greenhouse gases.
  5. Voraciously consuming land-2005-2015 they added more than 1,100 supercenters. Most of this land previously undeveloped. They have vacated more than 150 stores.
  6. Financing anti-environment candidates
  7. Consolidating and Industrialzing Food production
  8. The distribution model favors not locally grown produce
  9. Degrading organic
  10. Spreading poverty- "When Walmart comes into a community, incomes decline and poverty increases. According to a study published in Social Science Quarterly, neighborhoods that gain Walmart stores"
My grandpa has always preached how terrible Walmart is. He has good reason to. The main reason he hates Walmart is because his local bike went out of business soon after Walmart started carrying the same brand of bikes his store sold at a lower cost.

This is exactly why Walmart is the corporate devil. They come into small communities and takeout the small businesses that can not compete with their low prices. Yes this may be Capitalism at its finest, but is it really ethical?

I know way too many people that claim to hate Walmart, yet they still get most of their household supplies there. They have no morals in my opinion. How can you support a business that could care less about anything than making the most it can without thinking of anyone else

Plus Walmart's suppliers in other countries like India, China, Bangladesh, and Mexico are not 'good wage' jobs even for third world standards. The people are overworked, underpaid, and forced to work in sub-human conditions.  The documentary "Walmart: High Cost of Low Price" explains how terribly not only these employees from other countries, but also employees in the United States are treated.

Basically, Walmart is the corporate devil. That is all.

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