Wal-Mart: The Movie, The National Tragedy

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Here's a point to get you started, taken directly from the film's website: "The truth is, Wal-Mart offers small towns and rural areas a devil’s bargain, offering cheap shopping in exchange for their soul. Wal-Mart displays a cornucopia of low priced goods for consumers, but the true price is the hollowing out of small towns, the bankruptcy of local businesses, the sapping of local tax coffers through corporate welfare and expenses, the contamination of the local environment, and pressure on other companies to mistreat employees in order to compete. Wal-Mart offers consumers cheap goods even as it helps lower their wages as workers and drain their commonwealth as citizens.

Simply put: Wal-Mart ain’t good for business."

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