Wal-Mart has lower prices by keeping costs down. They don’t pay union wages, buy in bulk and force their suppliers to sell to them for less, and have far superior inventory systems.
Like it or not, they will eat the lunch of the Von’s, Ralph’s, Lucky’s, whose lobbies have fought hard to keep WM supercenters out of CA.
If you think a cashier’s job is worth $20 per hour plus generous fringe benefits, you probably also think GM assembly line workers are worth their $30 or so an hour plus generous fringe benefits.
Competition, of the sort offered by WalMart, has done more to help the nation’s poor lucky enough to shop there than any number of welfare programs. It is interesting how the liberal elites love to hate WalMart.
