Walmart paid its employees decently, and bought virtually all of what it sold inside the U.S. And they ran ad campaigns about that. Back in the '90s I shopped at a local Walmart as regularly as at other stores, mainly for clothes for my kids. But over time the store became dirty and cluttered, the quality of the clothes declined, and I simply stopped going there. Around that time, it was the late '90s by then, the company my husband worked for paid for memberships in Sam's Club. So I went there occasionally, but since I had no need to buy vast quantities of anything, all I ever bought was a new book that I wanted to read, and when the company no longer underwrote Sam's Club memberships, found I didn't miss it at all.
In recent years, the two or three times I've had a chance to price out the cost of something at Walmart or Sam's Club vs the same items in a regular grocery store, it's almost shocking how much less it is at the regular store. There may be some things that are cheaper there, but by no means everything, and I suspect that those who shop only at Wally World or the Club are actually paying more than they need to overall.
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