Watch: 24 hours of Walmart
This time-lapse video explores a full day at the checkout lanes of a Walmart store in New Brunswick, N.J.
Photo: Brave New Films/Flickr Read more about Wilkes' project (which he did for Fortune magazine) here.
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nkWal-Mart Shopers !
Remember One Thing. Cheap product is for rich people because you have to buy it many times.
Cheap product make good product more expensive.
Cheap product is designed to break fast so it make more money for ceo and shareholders.
We all should stop buying Junk.
The U.S. should focus on quality.
So, Why doesn't Walmart switch to Paper? More EXPENSIVE?
I am not certain what you think this proves? People shop? People shop at WalMart? What is the larger point you are trying to make? If it were not for WalMart, the people seen here would be buying the same amount of stuff at less convenient hours at several less convenient stores and at much higher prices. If you shop there or not you have benefited from the innovation and competition this 'evil corporate giant' has brought to the market place in almost every consumer category.
I think your assumptions may be off. You think that if Wal-Mart did not exist people would still be buying all this junk, which most of it is, just for more money. that may be. However, if there was no junk, there would be no need for wal-mart. i think the message was more about consuming than where it is we consume. also, if you think that everyone has benifited from the "innovations" that wal-mart provides you may want to ask those who were laid off due to walmart squeezing companies to lower.... More
Labor, like all other resources, should be conserved where practical. So, laying off people is good when it is the result of improved productivity or efficiency. For instance, it is only because 95%+ of people have been put out of jobs as farmers that we are able to enjoy pretty much every product and service beyond basic hand-to-mouth sustenance.
As for you Chinese, you ought to ask yourself what they would be doing if they were not making tube socks for Americans. They certainly.... More
