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Originally Posted by BamaFan121s  I guess that depends on how you look at it and where you live. If you are stictly speaking about the corporate office writing a check and mailing it off for a charitable cause, that may be the case. If you are talking about being invovled in the community, I guess that is a matter of what you consider "involved" and which community you live in.
I can honestly say this...the Target near us SUCKS! They don't do ANYTHING for the community. Wal-Mart on the other hand does stuff for the communities here all the time. There are ways to be invovled in a community that are beneficial that extend beyond just donating money. |
Point taken. But the bottom line is that, while you may be saving .25 on your paper towels, America's tax dollars are making up for the low wages they pay their own employees, via government and state assistance. If there is a mere rumor that employees are trying to organize a union, the employees are dismissed.
The donation reference is what the actual Walton family contributed to charities, not the corporate office.
Don't get me wrong, I am a Sam's junkie. All of our sodas, bread, chicken strips for the dogs, and paper products come from there. But because of that documentary, we now buy the things that we need for our home from a local hardware store, and have started buying most of our produce from the Farmer's Market, and groceries (except what was mentioned) from a Mom and Pop store.
I could go on and on. My sister in law worked there for 15 years, before she died suddenly from blood poisoning. I won't go in to the details concerning that, but sometime afterward, my Mother in Law received a letter from an attorney, asking her to be part of a class action lawsuit. It seems as if Wal-Mart insured the lives of its employees, and made themselves the beneficiaries of the policies. The same company that paid its employees peanuts, making it hard for them to afford health insurance, somehow found the money to insure the lives of their workers--for more financial gain.
A quick google search can bring it all up.