So here we have a bunch of bush-followers, murderous-hypocrites, self-righteous Nazis claiming that wal-mart is an evil from China that is destroying their community.OK. Let me be clear: I'm against corporations, against the abuse of the weak and against laws that favor the rich over the less fortunate. I'm also against cheap products that destroy the planet, with the use of chemicals and pollutants needed to transform their raw material into the final toxic, non-biodegradable and easy-to-break mostly unnecessary little capitalist/consumerist treasure. Certainly, Wal-Mart is accomplice to some or all of that. But so are the "little" businesses. American products, generally, are not much better than Chinese when it comes to green production. Sure, there are more regulations, although they're either ignored or simply bureaucratic garbage that it's there to sound good and doesn't achieve anything in reality.Apart from that, blaming Wal-Mart for the destruction of small businesses is absurd: blame the same communities you claim to be the victim. No-one forces people to go shopping in Wal-Mart, so it's the customers who destroy all other businesses, not the corporation itself. Don't go pointing fingers if you are not going to do it for everybody involved. It reminds me, somehow, to the way people complained about Ryanair being terrible, with crappy policies and pauper customer service. Then I'd go: "So, you aren't using that airline any longer". To which I, inevitably, would receive the answer: "Well, they are cheap, so..." Honestly, people are plain dumb.I certainly am happy that families like the ones portrait in this trashy documentary get broken. It seems that whoever directed this rubbish thought it'd marvelous to show how these bigots love to kill animals "for sport", how they support the NRA and how proud they are to be citizens of "the greatest free country in the world".Yeah, right.

If the point of this documentary is to portray Walmart in the worst possible light then it was a complete success. However, I believe the goal of the film was to present us with convincing arguments that we are paying a high price for low cost. In this respect it fails miserably. It consists almost exclusively of small town business owners who prior to Walmart were some of the comparatively wealthiest in their town; but now are angry that the very capitalism that brought their good fortune is now taking it away. The remainder consists of disgruntled employees who seem to at the very least suggest that any Walmart employee should make 40K a year - which is simply unrealistic for a stocker or cashier. So long as a coherent argument was made in this film, I would still give it 5 out of 10, but it seems to lack any legitimate reasoning for its real thesis that Walmart is evil. One would be much better served by a PBS documentary attempting to address the influence of Walmart in American culture.

1. After 8 years of taking losses on the German market, Mal-Mart quit, closing its 90 stores in the country. Why? Not efficient enough compared to German supermarkets. Believe it or not, Mal-Mart's prices were higher and quality lower than in German supermarkets.2. Think of efficiency. If a store is more efficient than smaller stores and, thus, offers lower prices, the smaller stores should step down. Free market economy, right? Subsidizing smaller inefficient businesses by keeping Wal-Mart away is not the solution. Buy and read some books on basics of market economy. It's all about specialization. Whoever is not efficient at something, should do some other job.3. Americans are very proud of their special democracy, capitalism and freedom, but only in words. If the country belongs to you, why can't you change anything?! Corporations control the whole country without any serious regulations. Learn from some European countries. Or from Canada.3. Stop buying in Wal-Mart if you really care about your community. Is Wal-Mart forcing people to buy products in its stores? You like low prices, but don't like the consequences? Decision-making requires the sense of responsibility.4. If Wal-Mart employees don't like the company SO much, then why work there?! If you can't find any other work, then it's YOUR problem. Can't find any work in local community - look in other cities/places/states. Grow up. Think in advance of a proper education, professional skills and future.5. Watch the South Park episode on Wal-Mart.6. The scene in China is irrelevant, just because 99% of all companies in China work EXACTLY the same way.

Wal-Mart: The High Cost Of Low Price scores high for its strong message. In a classical political pamphlet Greenwald makes exposes facts about Wal-Mart that make your jaw drop, even though you don't have to agree with him.What bothered me extremely was it's horrible production value though. The soundtrack really stands out for its horrible quality. It is sometimes not anything better than experimental student television. As if they never watched the end product, pompous music is played bluntly over quotes as if they don't matter, and it seems they never took someone with them that had any knowledge of recording sound. Especially towards the end, I sometimes put my hands to my ears because of the wall of noise that was coming towards me.Bad editing is key. Cheap footage is abundant. The camera (wo)man was creative in its framing, but seemed to suffer from Parkinson's.Greenwald has wrapped a strong political message in a wet and wrinkled newspaper, instead of the great wrapping that it deserves.