Is Wal-Mart Destroying America? 20 Facts About Wal-Mart That Will Absolutely Shock You

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Is Wal-Mart Destroying America? 20 Facts About Wal-Mart

America absolutely loves Wal-Mart. 100 million customers visit Wal-Mart every single week in this country. But is Wal-Mart good for America? That is a question that most people never stop and ask.

Most of us love shopping in big, clean stores that are packed with super cheap merchandise, but the truth is that Wal-Mart is destroying America in a lot of ways.

As you will see below, Wal-Mart has destroyed tens of thousands of small businesses and countless manufacturing jobs over the past couple of decades. Wal-Mart has become a gigantic retail behemoth that sells five times more stuff than any other retailer in the United States. Unfortunately, about 85 percent of all the stuff sold at Wal-Mart is made overseas. What that is costing the U.S. economy in terms of lost jobs and lost revenue is incalculable. But Wal-Mart is a perfect example of where our economic system is headed.

Our economy is becoming completely and totally dominated by highly centralized monolithic predator corporations that ruthlessly crush all competition and that will stoop to just about anything in order to cut costs. In the future, will we all be working for gigantic communal entities that funnel all of the wealth and economic rewards to a very tiny elite? That sounds very much like how communist China works and red-blooded Americans should want no part of that. America is supposed to be about free enterprise and competition and working together to build up this country, and Wal-Mart is destroying all of that.

The following are 20 facts about Wal-Mart that will absolutely shock you…

#1 The average U.S. family now spends more than $4000 a year at Wal-Mart.

#2 In 2010, Wal-Mart had revenues of 421 billion dollars. That amount was greater than the GDP of 170 different countries including Norway, Venezuela and the United Arab Emirates.

#3 If Wal-Mart was a nation, it would have the 23rd largest GDP in the world.

#4 Wal-Mart now sells more groceries than anyone else in America does. In the United States today, one out of every four grocery dollars is spent at Wal-Mart.

#5 Amazingly, 100 million customers shop at Wal-Mart every single week.

#6 Wal-Mart has opened more than 1,100 “supercenters” since 2005 alone.

#7 Today, Wal-Mart has more than 2 million employees.

#8 If Wal-Mart was an army, it would be the second largest military on the planet behind China.

#9 Wal-Mart is the largest employer in 25 different U.S. states.

#10 According to the Economic Policy Institute, trade between Wal-Mart and China resulted in the loss of 133,000 manufacturing jobs in the United States between 2001 and 2006.

#11 The CEO of Wal-Mart makes more in a single hour than a full-time Wal-Mart associate makes in an entire year.

#12 Tens of thousands of Wal-Mart employees and their children are enrolled in Medicaid and are dependent on the government for healthcare.

#13 Between 2001 and 2007, the value of products that Wal-Mart imported from China grew from $9 billion to $27 billion.

#14 Sadly, about 85 percent of all the products sold at Wal-Mart are made outside of the United States.

#15 It is being reported that about 80 percent of all Wal-Mart suppliers are in China at this point.

#16 Amazingly, 96 percent of all Americans now live within 20 miles of a Wal-Mart.

#17 The number of “independent retailers” in the United States declined by 60,000 between 1992 and 2007.

#18 According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Wal-Mart spent 7.8 million dollars on political lobbying during 2011. That number does not even include campaign contributions.

#19 Today, Wal-Mart has five times the sales of the second largest U.S. retailer (Costco).

#20 The combined net worth of six members of the Walton family is roughly equal to the combined net worth of the poorest 30 percent of all Americans.

All over the country, independent retailers are going out of business because they cannot compete with Wal-Mart and their super cheap Chinese products. Often communities will give Wal-Mart huge tax breaks just to move into their areas. But what many communities don’t take into account is that the introduction of a Wal-Mart is often absolutely devastating to small businesses

A study of small and rural towns in Iowa showed lost sales for local businesses ranging from -17.2% in small towns to -61.4% in rural areas, amounting to a total dollar loss of $2.46 BILLION over a 13-year period.

When we buy stuff made by people working for slave labor wages in China, we destroy good paying American jobs and we make America poorer. This is a point that I have tried to make over and over.

Wal-Mart often tells one thing to the public and then does another thing in private. Sadly, the truth is that Wal-Mart does not care about U.S. manufacturing jobs. Wal-Mart just wants to get products as cheaply as they possibly can, and most of the time that means getting them from China.

Just check out this first-hand testimony from an 81-year-old retired apparel manufacturer….

I was president of the Southwestern Apparel Manufacturers Association. There was a meeting sometime between 1985 and 1990. Walmart had contacted our organization and asked if they could meet with us at our beautiful Apparel Mart we had here in Dallas, which has now been razed because all the independent merchants don’t exist that used to come to it. Two people from Walmart came down and they said they were going to be sourcing goods from overseas and we would have to meet those prices for consumer products and to get ready for it—we are going to be sourcing the world. Walmart was the only company that came out and said this.

It was sort of shocking: I was selling them some merchandise at the time. On the back of their trucks, it was saying ‘Bring it Back to America!’ They had the big ‘keep it in America’ program going at that time on the big signs in the stores. Meanwhile, when I reminded the buyer of that, she told me, ‘that is just for domestic consumption, we’re going to buy at the cheapest we can anywhere on earth.’

As I have written about previously, the United States has lost more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities since 2001.

We are losing millions of good jobs that cannot be replaced. If you can believe it, the United States has actually lost an average of about 50,000 manufacturing jobs a month since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.

Last year, the U.S. trade deficit with China was the biggest trade deficit that one nation has had with another nation in the history of the world, and Wal-Mart played a huge role in that.

In fact, Wal-Mart has actually been forcing some U.S. manufacturers to pack up and move overseas. The following is from a recent article by Amy Traub….

Walmart’s market power is so immense that the even the largest suppliers must comply with its demands for lower and lower prices because they cannot afford to have their goods taken off its shelves. Companies that used to manufacture products in the United States, from Levi’s jeans to lock maker Master Lock, were pressured to shut their U.S. factories and moved manufacturing abroad to meet Walmart’s demand for low prices.

Unfortunately, the vast wealth that Wal-Mart is sucking out of our communities is not put back into our communities. The profits are funneled out to Wal-Mart executives and shareholders. We may enjoy the low prices, but very little of the money that we give to Wal-Mart gets recycled in our local areas.

In the old days, you could actually support a family selling electronics or running a general store. But you can’t support a family working at Wal-Mart. The vast majority of the jobs that Wal-Mart creates are very low paying. Large numbers of Wal-Mart employees are actually on welfare, and this is part of the reason why we have seen such an explosion in the number of the working poor in America.

At this point, more than 40 percent of all jobs in America are low wage jobs and the middle class is rapidly disappearing.

If we do not support American jobs and American manufacturers they will continue to go away and the welfare rolls in this country will continue to explode.

There is not going to be any prosperity in this country without jobs. Unfortunately, most Americans simply do not understand how good jobs are being systematically destroyed in America every single day.

The path that America is headed on today is only going to end in complete and total disaster. We are being transformed from a wealthy nation into a poor nation. In the end, we will be dominated by a very tiny elite and everyone else will either be among the working poor or will be totally dependent on the government.

Our system is supposed to be about open, honest competition. But that is not what Wal-Mart is about. Wal-Mart is about crushing small businesses and manufacturers here in America and getting us all to buy their super cheap Chinese-made goods.

The saddest part? The original founder, Sam Walton, based his company on all-American values. He insisted on only selling USA-made goods and ran his operation with such remarkable skill that the company took off. How far, now, the values from the original ethos behind the company.

So what do all of you think about Wal-Mart? Please feel free to post a comment with your thoughts below…

This article first appeared here at the Economic Collapse Blog. Michael Snyder is a writer, speaker and activist who writes and edits his own blogs The American Dream and Economic Collapse Blog. Follow him on Twitter here.

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15 thoughts on “Is Wal-Mart Destroying America? 20 Facts About Wal-Mart That Will Absolutely Shock You

  1. WalMart is the problem, but American Labor pricing itself out of a job is the source of the problem. NAFTA changed everything, and for the worse concerning our economy. That said, Americans didn’t face the facts that to be competitive we would have to produce more for less of a paycheck, which to say the least, is a hard pill to swallow, but it was reality. We denied reality and it automatically worked against us with devastating results. Now it is far to late to correct the course into oblivion that we are on.

    1. USA work force cannot compete economically with $1.00 per hour, it’s below starvation level. Nothing to do with American Labor pricing itself out of anything, they were simply undercut beyond all hope of competitiveness. China has much lower environmental standards and worker conditions which is not something to be striven for.

  2. If you feel that it’s a problem, quit giving them your money. I quit shopping at Wal-Mart five years ago. I am a happier person, and haven’t been deprived of anything I need. You can live without Wal-Mart. Be part of the solution, not the problem. Shop local, small businesses as much as possible. I have found they really can compete.

    1. I stopped shopping at Walmart 20 years ago. Any company having so much love for money to the point of their employees needing government assistance is a crime. Americans complaining of paying their taxes to the welfare system, really need to stop and think about the never ending cycle. It’s no wonder we are so divided on most everything in our country.

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    Walmart receives between 25 and 40 percent of all food stamp spending. Of course Walmart’s slave wages force all of its employees to depend heavily on $2.66 billion …://www.addictinginfo.org/…/walmart-is-americas-first……

    Walmart, a company that has been repeatedly called out for its low, low wages, has made an art out of fighting unions. As Bloomberg reported late last year, America’s largest private employer has closed stores that voted to unionize, packed various sections with anti-union workers, and — in one especially stunning case — decided to close the meat counters at 180 stores when its butchers voted to unionize. It routinely bars union organizers from Walmart property, forces employees to attend anti-union meetings, and threatens to replace employees who try to unionize. “When low wages leave Walmart workers unable to afford the necessities of life, taxpayers pick up the tab,” I don’t eat at McDonalds and I don’t shop at Walmart so I don’t see why I should have to subsidize them.

  4. I do not shop at Walmart and never intend to. I have never liked Walmart for the very reasons that were stated. They treat their employees badly. They are motivated by their own greed. You will never see me in a Walmart.

  5. I refuse to shop at Walmart. Their products for the most part are cheap, especially clothes. I rather pay more for clothes that last than buy their cheap stuff that falls apart after a couple washings. Besides our local Walmart attracts a low class of rude people with children that run wild in the store. It’s not a place for me. I’ll stick to Target and Costco for nonperishables.

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  7. If the food stamps and welfare were not stolen out of my pocket and given to the Wal-Mart employees perhaps WM would be forced to pay a living wage and local retailers would be more competitive. I will shop at WM to attempt to reclaim some of the earnings extorted from me my the IRS thugs.

  8. This article is absolutely right. WAL MART is killing America. Sadly everybody is trying to get something for nothing and this is only a symptom of the times we live in, just like SNAP…lol. We are slowly snapping ourselves into a cold death.

  9. The Walton family needs to go back to running Walmart the way Sam did. I don’t remember ever seeing products made anyway but in the USA. The employees were happier and able to support their families without government assistance. I worked at a Sam’s Club and couldn’t make it without a second job. In my opinion, things went to hell shortly after Sam died. Now, it’s almost impossible to find anything that’s made here. Most…if not everything…is outsourced overseas for cheap labor and the prices keep going up. They don’t seem to care any longer about the happiness or well-being of their employees or customers. I stopped buying my groceries there over a year ago. I only go there now if I’m desperate. I started getting all my groceries at Winco. Sam would roll over in his grave if he could see the way his company’s being run now.

  10. Some day the Waltons, who proclaim to be Christians, will have to stand before God regarding this evil empire they have set up, their founder would be ashamed at their greed. In the meantime, stop shopping there, and politicians find some backbone. If you want to earn a decent wage, you need to pay a decent price so that the person who made the goods you want can also live a reasonable life. That way jobs stay within your country.

  11. Just say no has become a joke, but I just don’t go to Walmart for any reason. It’s one thing if they played fair as does Target. There destroyed many small town businesses. But most abhorrent to me is that our taxes go for Medicaid and welfare for Walmart employees. Walmart enriches the Family, executives, and shareholders by dipping off the taxpayer.

  12. Just wanted to inform you people that I agree that WM shopping bad for our country , BUT to all who mentioned Target and Costco as a good example , WRONG , Target is owned by the “French” and the Money doe’s NOT stay in this country. “Costco” for all you Patriot Gun owners is owned by ” BILL PRICE ” Who writes “Big” Checks to the GUN CONTROL Groups , You know the ones who support Diann Finstein and Chuck Schummer for re-election every four years. Happy Shopping..

  13. Stop worrying about Walmart and keep your eye on Amazon who is buying the world and does not have the expense of a store. Bezos just acquired Whole Foods and I’m sure more will follow. If our government doesn’t enforce anti-trust laws, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and a new others will own the US.

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