Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005) on Netflix
NR20051h 38mDocumentary
Small business owners and former Walmart workers describe what the retailer has done to their towns and jobs. Their accounts sit beside footage of Walmart's chief executive.
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Plot summary
Archival footage of Walmart's chief executive praising the corporation at an employee convention is set against interviews with people across the United States, among them a family hardware store owner in the Midwest and residents of towns where a Walmart opened. Workers are paid an average of about $17,000 a year, too little to afford the company's health insurance, and are directed to government programs such as Medicaid. Cleanup crews staffed by undocumented workers, anti-union practices and crime in store parking lots are among the other subjects. Crews in Bangladesh and China visit factories making Walmart goods, and a Walmart employee of nine years describes clothing plants in Latin America.
Cast
- Don Hunteras Himself - H&H Hardware Owner
- Jon Hunteras Himself - Son of Don Hunter
- Jeremy Hunteras Himself - Son of Jon Hunter
- Matt Hunteras Himself - Son of Jon Hunter
- Johnny Faenzaas Himself - H&H Hardware Employee
- Frank Morminoas Himself - Owner of Middlefield Tire
- John Brueningas Himself - Owner of Geauga Vision (as Dr. John Bruening)
- Tom Glassburneras Himself - H&H Hardware Employee
- Weldon Nicholsonas Himself - Wal-Mart Store Manager Trainer
- Al Normanas Himself - Founder of Sprawl-Busters
- Grace Thibodeauxas Herself - Hearne, Texas Resident
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- Diane DeVoyas Herself - Wal-Mart Employee
- Cathy Nemchikas Herself - Wal-Mart Employee
- Stan Fortuneas Himself - Wal-Mart District Loss Prevention Manager
- Jon Lehmanas Himself - Wal-Mart Store Manager
- Phenix Montgomeryas Himself - Wal-Mart Employee
- Josh Nobleas Himself - Wal-Mart Employee
- Donna Paytonas Herself - Wal-Mart Employee
- Alicia Sylviaas Himself - Wal-Mart Employee
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The documentary has been credited as one of the reasons that Walmart created a public relations "war room" in late 2005 to respond to criticism.
