Might and Right

Reading Response: The Wal-Mart Effect (Chapters 1-4)

Wal-Mart is an extremely successful business - about this, no one can argue. The number of stores, the number of employees, and the amount of cash flow through their enterprise is truly mind-boggling. With massive size comes a very persuasive voice. Wal-Mart gets what Wal-Mart wants. Wal-Mart does what Wal-Mart wants.

It would be amazing if a company with Wal-Mart's clout used it for positive things, yet it seems like Wal-Mart has become an out of control monster, consuming everything in its path. I understand that a business' goal is to provide services and/or goods to its customers and not to act like a charity, yet when people make comments like "When you see the Wal-Mart smiley face, whistling and knocking down prices, somewhere there's a factory worker being kicked in the stomach" I have to wonder if Wal-Mart has gotten its priorities out of order.