Go here to see a three-minute trailer for the upcoming Why Wal-Mart Works film. If the trailer is representative of the film, I think you will find that "pro-Wal-Mart" is not exactly a good phrase to describe the film. Neither is "fair and balanced"; instead, it goes in an entirely different direction...
You can pre-order on Amazon, where reviewers are already panning and praising the film, even though it hasn't yet been screened.
UPDATE: I just spoke to Ron Galloway, the producer of the film. He says the not even he has seen the final cut of the film, so all the talk on Amazon is just hot air.
Posted by Kevin on November, 9 2005 at 09:19 AM
Bobby wrote:Kevin, I really liked that Wal-Mart trailer. Wal-Mart is an awesome company that has been constantly vilified by a left-leaning media that loves reporting about "big bad companies." The anti-Wal-Mart story has been played out to such an extreme it's ridiculous.
If some of Ron Galloway's film ends up a little sappy, who cares. I think it's awesome that Ron made a pro-Wal-Mart film. Good for him.
Best,
Bobby-- November 9, 2005 12:15 PM ∞
Jeremy wrote:GET a grip - you really can't buy into that trailer. LOok at the facts not what walmart execs who are making 120mill a year have to say. of course they want to look good - they don't wanna me 119 mill a year - that's just too little for them. GET the facts straight. anyone who supports walmart needs to actually work there and be asked all the time to work off the clock - to be made to either loose your job or work 2-4 hours a day past your scheduled 9 hour day(8 hour work times) when your scheduled 40 hours a week and get in wrote up then for going over time when they force it. GEt the facts straight -walmart is not as good as they like to try to make themselves look to the general public.
-- November 10, 2005 11:42 PM ∞
Bob Dobbs wrote:I can't get enough of this place! First off they would not allow me to have a job without sharing my pee pee with them. Apparently they think that humans were designed perfectly like machines, and that the only way a human can feel run down, be distracted, and make mistakes is through the use of weed, despite the fact that it's effects typically only last a couple of hours, minus the hang over.
You'd figure with all the people on prescription, they'd want to be keeping tabs on them.The next thing that I REALLY like about them is when I went for a job at the local Wal-Mart, the guy who interviewed me didn't know ANYTHING about what sort of education benifits they offered, rather he knew that they wanted to start me out at $6.50 for stocking shelves and unloading trucks, and that they expected co-operation from me, and that I get things done in a timely and correct manner. It's good to know that he feels absolutly normal talking down upon a possible future employee. A guy who he's never met, a guy with no criminal records at that.
Of course working for them does not just sound like perhaps one of the greatest ideas, with the low pay, constant surveillance by bosses via camera, long hours (9 hours thankx to enforced brake in the middle of the day), etc.
Shopping at Wal-Mart is another grand idea! You see, you can save a LOT of money at Wal-Mart, that's what they are all about is the working class man, and they are there to help you out like Robin Hood or Zorro, hence the commercials! :)
What they do, to benefit you and me alike is have make use of there iron grip on the re-seller market, and pressure the producers of merchandize to sell to them at ultra low costs, in order to meat this standard the company must have things built in sweat shops, or school labor factories at little to no pay at all, included with long hours, and sometimes extreme heat in the worst case scenario. This in effect takes away more jobs from the US, which is also a good thing because all of us are lazy, and don't want to work for what we've got anyhow!
Which brings up another favorite American past time...EATING of crap!
Well now you can eat all the crap you want in Wal-Mart's interal McDonalds! Then after that you can have your hair done, and then proceed to the clothes isle so you can dress your little darling up like a 70's prostitute, or yourself.
Of course the mans' clothing section is awsome as well. You can buy your Mechanic related uniforms, sports related uniforms, neo-urban jeans related uniforms, as well as the Ned Flanders neo-Christian materialist uniform.Wal-Mart has it all!
-- November 12, 2005 04:30 PM ∞
