Wal*Mart - The High Cost Of Low Price [DVD] [2005]

This movie is a real eye-opener if you want to know the truth! Would recommend 100%

Really an eye opener about the Waltons and how they bullied their way to the top. Must watch.

I have seen many documentaries and this is in the top three for me. I know there is always two sides, but how anyone can watch this and not take pause to wonder? I worked at Walmart, and I can tell you first hand, they don't offer benefits for six months. The reason for this is they know nobody will stay or be allowed to stay that long, and they rotate the workers out before that six month mark comes up. This way, they pay the minimum, and never have to pay for medical. I mean never.The management gets their pay, raises, and medical. The workers just work. And if you think they don't direct you to the welfare office or have papers on hand? Your wrong.The money the owners have could pay a huge share of our national debt. And the way they have the chinese workers stacked up like slaves is disgusting.This is a must see for everyone and everyone who shops at Walmart or anywhere. And then you decide for yourself what you think. I would never tell anyone what to think. Just giving my humble opinion.

I've always been skeptic about Wal-Mart, yet still shopped there. The workers looked unhappy, tired. I asked a few what was wrong (just out of curiosity) and got the answer "tired."This movie, along with The Corporation, give insight as to what huge companies really care about: themselves. The shutting out of small businesses, the exploitation of workers (here and overseas), the stripping of "benefits," and just the overall competition to make more are explored in this film. Some reviewers complained about the low quality of the film, but they might be used to documentaries with a bigger budget. What this movie lacks in flash they make up with information.I haven't been to Wal-Mart since watching this. And I know it really doesn't make a difference to them. Millions of other sheep are herded into their stores with the "Low Price" advertizing, and especially the economic trouble we're in right now, that concept of "saving" is being exploited. People don't care anymore about anything except money...that goes for us too!You don't have to believe anything I or the filmakers say about Wal-Mart. Do your own research and see what you find. I did, and would rather be homeless than be associated with Wal-Mart.

This is kind of a dated film at this point. This issue isn't really about Walmart. It's way bigger than that. Amazon, Google, FB.. all the biggies have changed the world forever. WalMart got put in their place for mistreating their employees but they are not to blame for the destruction of American shifting production and distribution. Americans bought into some damn idea that technology and computers were the "Wave of The future" and we let other countries take over building "stuff". Or should I say we allowed the "Powers that be" sell us an idea we were superior enough not to have to work with our hands. People we are Americans! We invent and build stuff and the world copies us and buys it.

doesn't tell you much of what wal-mart is doing good, but does show you all the bad. wal-mart is a 'green' corporation, that's one good thing, but for the most part, wal-mart is just as evil as most of the corporations out there, it's all about money. i recommend seeing the documentary 'the corporation' first to get a broader perspectives of the evils of corporations, so that when you watch this you will know it's not only wal-mart contributing these types of injustices. it is the corporate capitalist mindframe, where capital/money takes priority over the life, health, and ultimate well being of consumers (all people, in general). anyways, i recommend this film and i no longer shop at wal-mart but i understand some don't really have a choice, and they do have cheap prices! lol. they definitely are a huge corporate evil tho, next time you go into one, if you do, check out ALLL the cameras they have everywhere. it's a joke! they are soo anti-union it's ridiculous.

A lot of the information in this movie I knew before, but seeing it all together was overwhelming. I do not think, in good conscience, I could ever walk into another Walmart again. Even my die hard conservative Dad, who watched it with me, felt the same way. The lack of consideration for humanity shown by this corporation is appalling. Walmart, as the top seller of consumer goods in the United States, if not the world, has an opportunity to change the world for the better. Instead, they pay a substandard wage, forcing fulltime employees to seek welfare benefits, pollute the environment, destroy local mom and pop stores and expolit workers in third world nations all in the name of low prices and the almighty dollar. This is not something I wish to contribute to, so I will be spending my money elsewhere.

Another great documentary from Robert Greenwald. Wal-Mart is the world's biggest retailer (in this country it owns ASDA) and will stop at nothing to get its own way and make bigger profits. Some small businesses have fought back, but the company will change its tactics to overcome any opposition. A searing expose of the retail business, which makes you wonder just how many other similar large corporations are copying Wal-Mart

This movie's astonishing collection of research and reports of different dimensions of the ultimate corporate success in our times, asks some very disturbing questions! If a company comes in to a community, closes its independent competitors and then relocates, is it anything more than an 'Independent' assassin? When a company claims to be green while ignoring government concerns they are leaking poisons into reservoirs, can they continue to claim to be green? When workers in China are interviewed working for slave wages, what is the real cost of low prices?

a bit dated but still worth a watch... there are others too.. absolutely an eye opener even today for lots of people out there!!

Service and product are great. We'll produced documentary

一企業に集中して告発するようなDVDは自分の知るところ初めてだけれど、それだけウォールマートが巨大になったということだろう。日本でいうとAEONとかヨーカドーにあたるのだけれど、アメリカ国内のシェア、世界の売上高は日本の大手スーパーなどとは比較にならない。ロジックは簡単で、ウォールマートの低価格（Low Cost）の裏にあるのが、地域からの補助金、労働者の搾取、環境・犯罪への無配慮ということであってそれらのツケは全て国民の税金から補われている（High Cost）ということ。とくに驚いたのが従業員（アソシエイツ）の給料の平均が２００万円くらいしかなく、多くの従業員がアメリカの最低給与基準を満たしていないため生活保護（MediCare)を受けているということ。それに対して、創業者サム・ウォルトンの家族がとんでもないような金持ちになっている。家族の一人ひとりの資産が１５００億円というから驚きだ。もちろん企業活動であるわけだから毎年成長をつづけることで株価を上げることが至上目的であることにはかわりはないわけだが企業活動の裏で発生している極端な格差社会をみるとまるでアメリカ国内のなかで世界の格差社会の縮図が構成されていっているような気がしてならない。パッケージのイラストのようにこの巨大なモンスターが平和なアメリカの田舎に進出してしまえば地域のコミュニティのお店はひとたまりもない。いままで何十年もやってきたお店がつぶされて当然ウォールマートにはうらみつらみがあるわけだ。ウォールマートからすれば彼らは資本主義、競争の原理（神の見えざる手）に従ってやってるだけだから、ぶつぶつ文句をいう店があったらがんばって競争に加わればいいという論旨なんだろうけど、ここまでのモンスターになってしまった相手に普通に戦ってもかてるはずがない。まるでアフリカで飢餓で苦しんでいる子供にがんばってニューヨークで弁護士になれよといっているようなもの。グローバリゼーションと資本主義の限界について深く考えさせられる作品だ。ちなみに英語字幕がないので英語力がないと中身を理解するのはきびしいです。