User Reviews

I think this was a great look at WalMart as a whole. How it treats it associates, the communities they inhabit, and public reaction. Even though WalMart is a large corporation, it's one of the best retailers out there in associates, health care, wages, and choices. This show brings the good and the bad together for the viewer to form their own conclusion. They did a great job. My husband works for WalMart and we live in the hometown of WalMart. Yes we have complaints about his salary and yes we complain about some features of the health plan but who doesn't have these complaints with the companies they work for at some point. WalMart takes a lot of heat for everything it does. The movie said it right when it said that Wal-Mart is the successful kid that everyone is just waiting for it to fail and trying to push it over. But yet we can't stay out of the place. Is that really their fault?

This film sheds some light on Walmart and it's effects on communities and the individual in America. I found it to be refreshing and thoughtful, covering aspects from public views (and their flawed views and perceptions) to what actual employees think about Walmart. Sure, it covers some of the basics of why Walmart is successful, but it also describes the benefits of its success, not JUST to Walmart, but to the people that shop there, and that can only afford to shop there. This documentary dispells some of the 'bad rap' that has plagued Wal Mart of late, and gives the other side of the coin. In one segment, the film has an employee talking about what Walmart has meant to her and her family, and the lifestyle that she has....all thanks to Wal Mart. What a tear-jerker!!!! THUMBS UP!!!!