Wal-Mart is Asda - Asda is Wal-Mart

 

Fashion Victims 

Ever think of nipping down to Asda for a bargain? What is the real cost of our knickers? How about a little 21st century slavery as part of it? How about sharp suits cheating impoverished women just to get us that sought after bargain.

 

 

How good can you look in H&M when you know the real cost? This is what Wal-Mart does worldwide, Asda is Wal-Mart .....Wal-Mart is Asda same difference, same slavery, same sharp suits.

Wikipedia says:-

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., branded as Walmart, is an American multinational retail corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company is the world's second largest public corporation, according to the Fortune Global 500 list in 2013, the biggest private employer in the world with over two million employees, and is the largest retailer in the world. 

It goes on:-

"With close to 2.2 million employees worldwide, Walmart has faced a torrent of lawsuits and issues with regards to its workforce. These issues involve low wages, poor working conditions, inadequate health care, as well as issues involving the company's strong anti-union policies. In November 2013 the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced that it had found that in 13 U.S. states Wal-Mart had pressured employees not to engage in strikes on Black Friday, had illegally disciplined workers who had engaged in strikes. Critics point to Walmart's high turnover rate as evidence of an unhappy workforce, although other factors may be involved. Approximately 70% of its employees leave within the first year. Despite the turnover rate the company still is able to affect unemployment rates. This was found in a study by Oklahoma State University which states, "Walmart is found to have substantially lowered the relative unemployment rates of blacks in those counties where it is present, but to have had only a limited impact on relative incomes after the influences of other socio-economic variables were taken into account. Wal-Mart is the largest employer in the United States, employing almost five times as many people as  IBM... the second largest employer in the U.S."

So if Wikipedia says it's true it must be you ask?... well perhaps not always, but that depends upon what we mean by truth of course... which is a whole new blog, if not a PhD thesis. 

So sticking to shopping for the moment, Wal-Mart or just plain old Walmart is a family run business and one of the richest corporations on planet earth. This is how the Walton's who own Wal-Mart got their money in the first place. The indictments go on forever.

So the next time you hear any politician hold forth on the alleged benefits of privatisation ... just think of its greatest achievement - the global reach of Wal-Mart family at its very pinnacle - because that's what its really all about and the story here is the real story. 

So then perhaps we should cast a thought back to these women who have been cheated and abused so blatantly, whose lives have been ruined by the intolerable stress of poverty.... and all on behalf of our cut-price underwear.

A scandal isn't it? .... Does anybody actually think this is worth it?