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Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price Director: Robert Greenwald

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  • DVD Release Date: 11/15/2005
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Sales Rank: 11,478

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Closed Caption; Condensed 20 minute version; Behind the scenes ; Director's commentary; 8 Parody commercials; The spoofmakers; 4 Special videos: Canada, England, Our moral voices, Don't Mourn...Take Action!

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Disc #1 -- Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
1. The Wal-Mart Gospel [2:15]
2. Out of Business [10:30]
3. Razing Main Street America [2:35]
4. Workers Pay, Wal-Mart Profits [9:38]
5. Union Busting [7:41]
6. Germany [1:00]
7. Off the Clock [5:42]
8. Are Women Useless? [2:58]
9. Race Matters [2:11]
10. Communities Pay, Wal-Mart Profits [10:08]
11. The Earth Pays, Wal-Mart Profits [5:24]
12. Made in China [6:45]
13. Good Jobs Around the World [1:13]
14. Truth and Consequences [4:23]
15. Is Greed Good? [3:35]
16. Customers Pay, Wal-Mart Profits [8:55]
17. Victory! Victory! Victory! [9:48]
18. End Credits [2:45]

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Editorial Reviews

Wal-Mart has become one of America's most successful retail chains by offering everyday goods at low prices for working families. But just how is Wal-Mart able to charge less than many of their rivals, and what has their success done for their employees? Documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald takes a look inside the discount retailer's empire in Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, and discovers a company short on scruples and long on shabby treatment of the people who work for them. Through interviews with labor experts and former Wal-Mart employees, Greenwald documents the firm's anti-union tactics, their history of paying wages often below the poverty line, the high price they charge for health benefits (employees are often encouraged to apply for government subsidized health care programs instead), their methods for driving away locally owned businesses, their practice of hiring illegal aliens for cleanup crews at a fraction of minimum wage, the abysmal working conditions and pay in the Third World plants where much of Wal-Mart's goods are manufactured, and more. Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price is one in a series of muckraking documentaries from director Greenwald which includes the films Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, Uncovered: The War in Iraq, and Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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Truth hurts.by Christain

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May 05, 2009: Ben Stein should be ashamed of himself. Taking time on CBS Sunday morning to say "those people at Walmart look happy to me". This company has no shame. They push the envelope of evil to the point that would make Saddam blush. They do not care about anybody but themselves. Hey Ben instead of crying at the resignation of Nixion perhaps you might shed a tear for all those who have lost everything due to this company. A company that knows no bottom to the level it will sink to squeeze the almighty dollar from those who can ill afford to give it. I will NEVER SHOP AT Walmart, neither should you...after seeing this movie...could anyone?

Wake up and smell the rosesby ClarkP

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October 28, 2006: An eye-opening film. Excellent with many strong facts. It wouldn't be necessary if Wal-Mart did not actively seek to break labor laws nationwide. Unions are a good thing. This is a must watch show.


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