Wal-Mart: Economic Destruction For Low Prices, Always!

Everybody has heard of the corporate giant known as Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart has always offered low prices to all of its shoppers. They have become an iconic American shopping place due to the abundance of groceries, electronics, clothing, and personal healthcare products. But, Wal-Mart has began to receive a new negative light over the last few years. Over the past several decades, it has become painfully obvious what Wal-Mart has been doing to the economy. Wal-Mart is very widely known for being very inexpensive. But another thing they are cheap towards is the health insurance they provide to their workers, or should I say the lack there of. What Wal-Mart does is set their employees hours to the maximum they can without having to provide health insurance. They manage this by only hiring part-time employees and then just replacing them with other part-time employees. Another thing that Wal-Mart is helping to replace is small local business. These stores, also known as "Mom and Pop stores", just can't compete with Wal-Mart’s pressuring low prices and often have to sell out and close down forever. These are the types of stores that have been around for decades, often providing our great-grandparents with the everyday supplies they needed. I feel that Wal-Mart is to damaging for our own good. However, it is the most popular shopping center for a reason, its driving low prices and sheer size and quantity is to much to compete with and in most cases, you can depend on a local Wal-Mart to be open twenty-four/seven or at least most hours of the day. That’s why I just don’t see Wal-Mart going away anytime soon.