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A look at the impact of the retail giant on local communities.

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price is a 2005 documentary film by director Robert Greenwald. The film presents a negative picture of Wal-Mart's business practices through interviews with former employees, small business owners, and footage of Wal-Mart executives. The film intersperses statistics between the interviews to provide large-scale examinations beyond personal opinions. The documentary was released on DVD on November 4, 2005.

THIS IS THE MOVIE WALMART DOES NOT WANT YOU TO SEE

* Forces its own workers to labor "off the clock" without pay

* Uses overseas sweatshop labor to manufacture its corporate
brand clothing

* Sells knock-off and counterfeit merchandise that misleads
and confuses its customers

* Destroys acres of environmentally sensitive lands to build
new Wal-Marts, close to existing Wal-Marts that will be closed

* Has eliminated all competition in many towns across the U.S
by illegally lowering prices below wholesale

* Has forced the movement of thousands of manufacturing jobs
out of the U.S

* Calls "full-time" 28 hours per week and pays wages so low
that many of its employees qualify and accept welfare payments

* Demands millions of dollars in tax breaks to locate in communities
all over the U.S., while it earns billions of dollars in profits