Tonight I watched a documentary about the American megachain of stores called Wal-Mart. It was mostly about how they have gradually been quitting doing business with American suppliers of goods and switching over to buying cheaper crap from China. In fact I believe the figure quoted was 80% of their crap now comes from China.
They also showed an example of a TV parts manufacturer in a town called Circleville (or something like that) which had to shut down because Wal-Mart discovered they could buy that stuff from the Chinese at a fraction of the cost. Well, that company was in a small town and basically the majority of the working population in that town worked at that company, so they all lost their jobs. The ironic part to the story though was that a Wal-Mart was about to open right next to the closed-down TV parts factory.
They said that all those people could go and get a job at the Wal-Mart. But apparently Wal-Mart jobs would pay half of what those people used to get at the TV parts factory.
What I want to know is that if Wal-Mart pays such low wages, why was everybody I saw working in those Wal-Mart stores at least three times as big as the people who worked at the TV parts factory? Really, they were ENORMOUS.
I have never seen so many obese people in the one place.
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obesity seems to cling to places like walmart, k-mar and such things. some of them have mcdonalds or other fast food chains in them and maybe also the job is less demanding so the just get larger and larger... i dont know but im sure it has somethign to do with that culture, i try to stay as far away from those places as i can.
your theory seems to hold water. yes, that could be it alright. those Wal-Mart people must choose the *upsize* option.
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