If you live in a small town, or any town for that matter really, you begin to cultivate a love/hate relationship with Wal-Mart. You hate them for everything they stand for, and everything they are doing to small businesses and minimum-wage workers across America. Yet, you have to admit, they pretty much have everything there you could possibly ever need, and for prices that are often shockingly low.
I think if you work at Wal-Mart however, there probably ain't much to chalk up in the "love" column. At least that was the case for Barbara Ehrenreich, who spent a few weeks working there while conducting research for her book Nickel & Dimed . I highly recommend avoiding that book, unless you really want to see how difficult it is to make it in America these days without a college degree and a significant income.
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That humpy greeter lady at our Wal-Mart should write a song. I'm gonna suggest it to her.
You have, much more succinctly than I, described America's conflicted feelings about Wal-Mart. It used to be a much better place when Sam Walton ran it. In fact, so many things in this country seem to have gone downhill over the past few years, if you know what I mean.
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