Honors Prompt Wal-Mart

Rachel Akin

Honors Prompt -Wal-Mart

Honestly, I go to Wal-Mart every week. I know it is such a bad place to go, but it is convenient and as of now it is the only place I can really afford. After watching the documentary on it, though, I wish I would have never started going there. The truths behind the convenient Wal-Mart shocked me. Wal-Mart is worse than I could have even imagined.

I definitely am on the director’s side when it comes to Wal-Mart. There is no way I would side with that corporation. I now cannot stand how normal and convenient it is to go there. I learned in Sociology recently that the manifest function of Wal-Mart is to be this convenient superstore, but this documentary shed light on the many latent functions Wal-Mart has.

Part of living in America is having the opportunity to be an entrepreneur. Anyone should be able to start from the bottom and then work their way to the top. With this being said, that means that there is much competition in America. It is so bothersome that we now have this superpower that runs people out of business who have been in business for years. Yes it is fine to have competition and yes people are always going to work at being the best, but at the same time monopolies are not allowed.

I agree with the documentary in that Wal-Mart needs to be regulated, especially when they have gotten to where they are with so many lies and with so little fairness. The worst part of Wal-Mart is that it is a corporation based on such terrible principles, yet its CEO can speak about it like it is such a great place. Wal-Mart is only interested in making money. I was appalled at how it treats its employees. Wal-Mart is such a wealthy company, yet they do not care to cheat others out of money and to continuously step on other people and businesses.

The truth about Wal-Mart is hidden behind so many lies, falsely cheery commercials, and people that only care about their money. I do not know how the CEO of Wal-Mart can sleep at night. Wal-Mart needs to be regulated and stopped. Their employees should not have to deal with the treatment they do. Americans needs to know what their convenient superstore really is. Just because it is convenient definitely does not mean it is right. As Americans we need to do our best to shop at places that do their best for the planet, and for their employees. Wal-Mart does not fit in this category.