Is Walmart Evil? you decide... Walmart’s market power is so immense that even the largest suppliers must comply with its demands for lower and lower prices because they cannot afford to have their goods taken off its shelves. Companies that used to manufacture products in the United States, from Levi’s jeans to lock maker Master Lock, were pressured to shut their U.S. factories and moved manufacturing abroad to meet Walmart’s demand for low prices. Unfortunately, the vast wealth that Walmart is sucking out of our communities is not put back into our communities. The profits are funneled out to Walmart executives and shareholders. You may enjoy the low prices, but very little of the money that you give to Walmart gets recycled in your local area. ~In 2019, Walmart had revenues of $514.4 billion dollars. That amount was greater than the GDP of 170 different countries including Norway, Venezuela and the United Arab Emirates. ~Walmart is the largest employer in 25 different U.S. states. ~The CEO of Walmart makes more in a single hour than a full-time Walmart associate makes in an entire year. .~The combined net worth of six members of the Walton family is roughly equal to the combined net worth of the poorest 30 percent of all Americans. ~Between 2001 and 2018, the value of products that Walmart imported from China grew from $9 billion to $200 billion. ~The number of "independent retailers" in the United States declined by 60,000 between 1992 and 2007. ~Middle class Americans are subsidizing Walmart employees, whose wages are so low that tens of thousands of them need food stamps and medicaid to survive ~WALMART IS THE LARGEST RECIPIENT OF CORPORATE WELFARE. When we buy stuff made by people working for slave labor wages in China, we destroy good paying American jobs and we make America poor. The path that America is headed on today is only going to end in complete and total disaster. We are being transformed from a wealthy nation into a poor nation. In the end, we wi...