By now, it's a common known fact that shopping at Wal-Mart contributes to damaging the environment, driving down job wages, harming the local economy, and supporting the economy of China.

So why do you continue to shop there, ignoring all of this? Are we that greedy? Is it that important to save a few bucks on underwear, toothpaste and kitchen ware? We're just feeding the beast.
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Sorry SteveO, but you're trying to compare the introduction of a new technology to the attempted monopoly of retail sales. Wal-Mart has not innovated anything like Henry Ford did. Their only innovation is predatory pricing, a terribly damaging economic practice. In the early 20th centuries, there were many anti-trust monopoly penalties against large companies who attempted things like Wal-Mart has. Remember Rockefeller and Standard Oil? They were broken up into over 30 companies because they were becoming too large. Out of those companies came giants such as Chevron, Exxon, and Mobil. Can you imagine what energy prices would be now if this one giant had developed all of those years with this monopoly? Just recently, Exxon merged back with Mobil. Funny how now a days, all of this monopoly business is simply ignored by the consumers, and allowed by the politicians. Wake up, steveo.