As you shop for Christmas and Hanukkah gifts, you’ll likely think of the great deals Walmart has. Personally, I do as well on prices and better on quality elsewhere if I shop carefully and take advantage of coupons and sales. That’s good, because my conscience won’t let me shop at Walmart.
It’s a matter of respect and concern for their workers. Their mistreatment is a matter of record. I’ve read the news stories and investigative reports from reputable news agencies: hiring the undocumented and locking them up in stores (http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4146540/ns/business-us_business/t/suit-wal-mart-locked-janitors-stores/#.VHoEIzHF-So); hiring people with the promise of benefits, then as the corporate profits skyrocket, cutting those benefits (http://dailydigestnews.com/2014/10/profit-behemoth-wal-mart-cuts-benefits-raisies-healthcare-costs-for-part-time-workers/), knowing that most of their employees depend on their jobs to keep just this side of the poverty level; hiring the undocumented and making them work in harsh conditions, without overtime or even a day off (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/05/us/illegally-in-us-and-never-a-day-off-at-wal-mart.html); and practicing intimidation, discrimination, careless pollution, tax avoidance, and bribery (http://www.corp-research.org/wal-mart).
I agree that Walmart has great deals, but for the corporation, not for the workers. So I take my wallet elsewhere.