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| Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price | 
 enlarge | Director: Robert Greenwald
Studio: Brave New Films
Category: DVD
List Price: $12.95
Buy New: $8.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  184 reviews
Sales Rank: 4879
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Length, Letterboxed, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 95
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.5
UPC: 859835001016
EAN: 0859835001016
ASIN: B000BTH4K4
Theatrical Release Date: November 4, 2005
Release Date: November 15, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Description
Everyone has seen Wal-Mart's lavish television commercials, but have you ever wondered why Wal-Mart spends so much money trying to convince you it cares about your family, your community, and even its own employees? What is it hiding? WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price takes you behind the glitz and into the real lives of workers and their families, business owners and their communities, in an extraordinary journey that will challenge the way you think, feel... and shop.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 179 more reviews...
 dishes the dirt on Sprawl-Mart September 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Would it surprise anyone to know that Wal-Mart disputed the factual accuracy of some statements made in this film? LOL. I expected them to say, "Yes, we are a ruthless, souless, corporation driven simply by pure greed, our neverending mission being to open more and more stores around the globe while destroying all competition and increasing profits forever and ever until the return of Jesus. Amen". You know what? I would at least respect that answer. It might actually work. But of coarse what they ended up doing was creating a public relations "war room" (-their term. Btw, "public relations" replaced the term "propaganda" to describe the exact same practices after the latter term became so tainted as to no longer be usable.)in late 2005 specificly to discredit this fair and objective -but passionate- critic of their business practices. On the same day as the release of THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE Wal-Mart released a DVD film defending its practices entitled WHY WAL-MART WORKS; AND WHY THAT DRIVES SOME PEOPLE C-R-A-Z-Y ("Crazy" already written in all caps with hyphens). A very funny and highly ironic incedent latter occured with the director of the pro-Wal-Mart propaganda, Ron Galloway. Galloway publicly criticised Wal-Mart for it's disgusting labor practices stating, "They just instituted a wage cap for long-term employees--people making between thirteen and eighteen dollars an hour. It's a form of accelerated attrition. They can't expect me to defend that." Heh, well you just gotta love that one.
This is an important film because Wal-Mart is the biggest public corporation by revenue in the entire world, the biggest private employer in the world, and the fourth biggest utility employer. They are also now the biggest grocery store in America and the biggest toy seller. They also run and own Sam's Club. So, it is only the right thing to do as a consumer AND a citizen to give a fair hearing to the critics and their arguments.
How much scrutiny has the world's biggest corporation received by our major media institutions? We have heard much more from Wal-Mart in their ubiquitous TV advertisements and cheerful right-wing pundits on the wonderful benefits to America and the world of Wal-Mart's business model. With WAL-MART: THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE we get the other side of the story, and I'd argue a more accurate one.
 Where you spend matters. August 17, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Good movie that should make people think about the power of their spending dollars.
Wal-Mart is as dirty as they come. Watch this movie and see what they don't want you to think about.
 Somewhat repetetive and tedious July 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The topic is very interesting and the stories of the victims were interesting and instructive. Multiple views of the same shot were tedious. I began to feel that I was being treated as a rather dim bulb.
A Must See Eye Opener July 16, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
A superb documentary highlighting Wal-Mart's criminal human rights practices both here and abroad (and you've gotta love their union busting tactics that harken back to the '30's), total lack of regard for any environmental laws, their utter lack of concern for the safety of their customers, our tax dollars subsidizing Wal-Mart, the fact that Wal-Mart gives more to lobbying than charity (altho, sadly, neither party is preferred - Republican or Democrat - they're all whores these days) ... there is little that is not touched on in this well-made film. What IS the true cost of low prices?
Urge everyone to see it.
Ok but nothing new. June 30, 2008
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
As I viewed the dvd it occured to me that most of the stuff they were revielling about Wal-mart has been around for quite awhile. In fact it was on television last year.
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