WAL-MART: The High Cost Of Low Price is an expose of the American company which has taken over Asda in the UK. It paints a grim picture.
Wal-Mart’s chief executive officer is featured, claiming that the company cares for employees and offers them health plans free of charge. But the film shows that many employees could not survive without welfare benefits. It is also alleged that discrimination occurs within the company on grounds of gender and ethnicity, and in breach of equal opportunity legislation.
Wal-Mart also stands accused of pricing local businesses out of the market. The film focuses on H&H Hardware, which was forced to close after 43 years of trading. It is feared that a similar fate awaits the 105-year-old Queen’s Market in Upton Park, East London.
Fruit seller Neil Stockwell is campaigning against plans for the new superstore nearby. ‘Two point two miles away from this area we’ve already got a great big Wal-Mart Asda. Now, we’ve got nothing against Asda, but do they want to own everything?’
To the stallholders in Queen’s Street, it seems like Wal-Mart Asda is trying to take over the world.
Alana Sinnen is studying journalism
WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price is distributed by Tartan Films
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The market is again not working because there is no equal transaction between the two parties
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Editor’s letter
Academic
Debate
Entertainment
Essays
Journalism
Feedback
Redbridge MP Fails Britishness Test
Catch 2012
Altered States
Hollywood Comes to London Town
Stating The Obvious and Re-stating The Problem
Human Costs
Terror in Little Italy
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