Live Better

A friend just sent this to me so I had to share. I love feel of this ad because it echoes the horror movie trailers that are coming out. Plus Wal*Mart has been in the news a lot this week.

I know that Wal*Mart has been blasted by the media for several years. Yes, I do shop there and I understand that they "nickle and dime" their employees. I understand that they are sending a lot of jobs overseas. I do believe that they should offer more benefits to their employees but that is getting off topic. I still like to save money, so I sometimes shop at Wal*Mart.

Recently fox news had a debate on weather Wal*Mart's are destroying America. The Democrats said yes and stated a lot of the facts from the video. The republicans said no. They quoted several studies that show that Wal*Mart brings economic growth to cities and encourages the development of small businesses. This is one of the many reasons that citys across the nation are now welcoming Wal*Mart's instead of fighting them.

Yet more importantly Wal*Mart is doing excellent in the stock market. They are apparently making $25,000 in profit every minute, (see video website). They publish the issues to be voted on by stockholders on their website. They have some of the largest shareholder meetings in the country. They are a thriving business that has benefits and flaws. The 8 million dollar bonus they gave to their CEO is less than a lot of CEOs in the U.S., but still is money that could have gone to either the stock holders or the employees.

So love Wal*Mart or hate it, the corporation is still changing America. The question is does this business model make shareholders and customers live better?