A Brit explores WalMart

[Courtesy Flush]

Run time: 02:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzj1OF7d9m4   Posted on YouTube: July 25, 2011 By YouTube Member: nerimon Views on YouTube: 27646   Posted on DU: July 26, 2011 By DU Member: Courtesy Flush Views on DU: 2991

 
Not very political, but there you have it.

[rainy]

1. Hilarious. nt

[izquierdista]

2. Yeah, like you can't do that at TESCO

Same concept, different name.

[vanbean]

9. What is TESCO? A Limey WalMart?

[blublu]

11. Tesco is one of the largest (if not the largest) supermarket chains in the UK......nt

[quakerboy]

13. I dont recall being able to do that at tesco

They did have a much better alcohol selection. But I recall them being more like a slightly more diversified Safeway than a walmart.

Plus all the ones I saw closed at 6ish. 24 hour places seemed to be in very scarce supply.

That said, those from the land of "brown sauce" and black pudding have no room to mock bologna flecked with cheese, or really any other food when it comes down to it.

[JohnyCanuck]

3. Wal-Mart's Shirts of Misery from Bangladesh

When you purchase a shirt in Walmart, do you ever imagine young women in Bangladesh forced to work from 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., seven days a week, paid just 9 cents to 20 cents an hour, who are denied health care and maternity leave; screamed at to work faster; with monitored bathroom visits; and who will be fired for daring to complain or ask for their rights?

At the Beximco factory in the Dhaka Export Processing Zone in Bangladesh, there are 1,000 workers, at least 80 percent of them young women, sewing shirts and pants for Walmart and other retailers. Beximco is a sweatshop, where human rights are systematically violated.

Walmart and its contractor Beximco do not pay the overtime premium. In fact, as we have seen, they do not even pay the legal hourly wage of 33 cents. They pay only 20 cents an hour and pay overtime at this same illegal 20-cent rate.

These workers are locked in poverty, being cheated out of over $20 a week in legal wages by the largest retailer in the world. The workers are being illegally paid just $16 for a full 80-hour workweek. For the forced 80-hour week, they should be earning at least $36.96. Surely Walmart, with $7.6 billion in annual operating profits, could afford this wage!

http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Business/2006/03/06/01005.html

[chervilant]

7. hmm...

You neglected to mention that many of the young women of Bangladesh enslaved by the corporatists are raped by forced to have sex with their managers, at their managers' whims.

[leveymg]

4. "You could live in here." These guys probably haven't seen "Where the Heart Is" (2000)

[madmom]

5. Meh... Everything they saw and did there they could also do at....

Kmart, Target, Meijer, Costco, or any other big box store.:shrug:

[liberal N proud]

6. Another candidate for the People of WalMart

[JAnthony]

8. Nerimon isn't simply "a Brit" He's a musician, songwriter, Youtube partner...

He is a Youtube partner with millions of subscribers and rakes in

lots of $ from his videos, his records, t-shirts and other items he designs/writes/produces sells.

Probably the second most subscribed Youtube teen idol in the UK!

He also does charity events and did a trip to Africa to raise awareness of economic development projects there not too long ago.

Kind of a worldwide social and intellectual critic, as well.

[iamthebandfanman]

12. so this is just more advertising

and someone decided to post it on DU ?

[valerief]

14. Yep, looks that way. nt

[pnwest]

10. wow. cutting edge stuff there.

Next thing you know he's gonna tell us all about this awesome band, The Rolling Stones, that he's just discovered.

[DreamSmoker]

15. This is more real than Most Americans know

This was great to see....
Gives us a real prospective from others who are not American..