Why Walmart is the leader in low wages?

[SheilaT]

43. One part of the problem is that most people

are convinced that they absolutely must pay the lowest price possible for anything they buy. They disregard the quality issue at the outset -- you get what you pay for. And they are oblivious to the wages issue.

This is combined with several decades of WalMart claiming they have the lowest prices of anyone, which has never been totally true, and is apparently a lot less true today than ever.

I am amazed when I cannot persuade liberal progressives I know to not go to WalMart. They throw back the low prices b.s. I ask them wouldn't they rather make a direct contribution to the Republican party? And they'll say things like they help out the Democratic party in other ways.

I can recall when WalMart actually had decent stuff. By the time I stopped going there, I'd noticed a huge decline in quality as well as the cleanliness of the store I was going to.

And there is also huge opposition on the part of many who should know better, to raising the minimum wage. Over and over again they'll repeat the nonsense about how minimum wage drives prices up. Well, every time we go for years without an increase in minimum wage, I don't see prices of most things not increasing.

It's depressing.