I keep reading/hearing that everyone should boycott Wal Mart because they underpay workers and treat them badly to deliver rock bottom prices to consumers.
Okay, if they are getting paid so little and treated like dogs...then why continue to work there? I understand right now jobs are scarce, but it hasn't always been that way. But if it has always been so bad to be an employee at Wal Mart then why did they work there for all these years?
I knew a lady that did inventory at night at a Wal Mart and never once heard her complain that she was treated badly and underpaid, she liked her job and if she didn't then she would have simply worked elsewhere.
I read online that "the average salary of a worker is $10 per hour." Big deal. If you are standing at the door putting stickers on items people are returning or glancing at their receipt on the way out....you aren't worth $10 an hour. That is minimum wage labor and I would be willing to bet that doesn't require a college degree either.
As for the people that do the heavy lifting from trucks, I'm sure they get at least $10 an hour because that is rough work. And if they aren't getting paid enough there, they can somewhere else. The average salary for a warehouse stocker (not just at Wal Mart. Warehouses all over the country) is $26,000/ year....divided into 40 hour weeks that is $13.02 per hour. The average of the workers making salaries around that number and salaries around minimum wage is....LOW AND BEHOLD....UNDER $10!! And that number comes from using fair salaries.

I hear the other drawback to Wal Mart is that it is putting "Mom and Pop" stores out of business. Guess what...this is a totally new day and age from what your Grandma and Pop lived in. Most people in the built up suburban areas that Wal Mart is in do not have dreams and aspirations of owning their granddad's hardware stores. People have many many other oppurtunities these days. Also, the mom and pop stores that are still thriving, close very early and rarely stay open on a weekend, especially a Sunday. That isn't convenient for consumers, Wal Mart however is. So if that store ran by those old people down the street isn't open when I need something, you can bet I will be headed to Wal Mart...just like everyone else. And that is what happened to the little locally operated stores.
If your argument is that most things in Wal Mart are made in China, or some other country in a sweat shop, you're wrong there too. Half the store is made up of items produced here. Go look around your house, garage, office, anywhere and not half of what you own was created here, or is made up of other parts not created here.
I could go on and on about this, but you tell me why it's bad to shop at Wal Mart after reading all of this.