Originally Posted by
Roody
Based on some recent PBS shows and magazine articles, Amazon is probably a worse employer than Walmart. And I really doubt if Target, KMart, Best Buy and the many other discount retailers are any better.
I think the liberals want the cheapness and convenience of Walmart, so they shop at Amazon and turn a blind eye to their labor and environmental practices. That way we can feel good about not shopping at Walmart, while shopping somewhere else that might be worse.
Roody - if you have links to any of those articles or vids about Amazon, I'd be interested in reading/viewing.
Go do some reading and reasearch about how the Walmart got where it is today. And think hard about how their influence has contributed to the throw-it-away mentality prevalent in our society. No other company has done more to lower the quality of all the products it sells than Walmart. Kmart and Target became followers, but the Walmart proudly promoted lower and lower prices knowing it could get them through supplier concessions (many of their suppliers make very little profit selling to the Walmart) and pressuring suppliers to design poorly made products using the cheapest materials possible.
It's possible that Amazon is a worse place to work, but the Walmart is a disgraceful corporation with no focus but the bottom line. Its recent go-green inititatives were put in place to divert attention away from the fact that it sells crappy products that do more to add to the waste stream than any green initiatives could possiby compensate for. If the Walmart wants to be a responsible social citizen (which it isn't obligated to do), the company would sell better quality, repairable products.