You make a post this ignorant and then tell others to do research? Amazing. I worked at Walmart head office for years and I can tell you that vendors deal with Walmart because they have no choice. Walmart is a horrible place to do business with and various vendors quit them because of their behavior (e.g. Snapper).

And it's Walmart who hates unions. Their profit depends on exploiting human labor as much as possible, so they don't like anything that gives workers a fairer shake.

I read from the fingers of a farm owner about Wal-Mart regularly doing things like committing to buy all of a farm's output of some crop, setting a pickup date, then being days late and refusing to pay for what spoiled in the crates waiting for the truck that didn't come.

How can this be "regularly" happening? Wouldn't farmers stop selling to walmart if this happened even once?

And if they "committed" to buying all the output, why weren't there repercussions from breaking that commitment?

It's not like huge customers for your crop are necessarily easy to get. And Walmart did buy all the non-spoiled output; they probably had the contract well-written to let them get away with what they did.

I certainly don't know for sure, but I've seen several documentaries with convincing footage, and read several forum posts, with corroborating replies from a variety of people, that indicate that WalMart does in fact screw over its suppliers, at least sometimes.

Calling the idea of this "fiction" is a bit disingenuous, imho.

The employees never seem happy to me, and as far as customers go, I think most of them see Wal-Mart like the phone company or Facebook--the offering is too good to refuse, but "happy" doesn't really describe the experience.

That's the kicker for me with any store. Walmart employees seem dispirited and miserable. Trader joe, target, whole foods, costco, all seem to have pretty happy employees.