Reply #4

If you want to improve your food's cleanliness and lower the cost don't count on Wal-Mart to do it for you. Pass a few laws that require better handling and control prices and labor. But don't think for a minute that Wal-Mart is going to give you quality, sanitation and better labor treatment if your laws don't demand it.

Chain stores like Wal-Mart are in it for the profit, not to improve your food distribution and employment system. They will do as little and pay suppliers and employees as little as your laws will allow. So instead of that coolie labor being out and about, chain stores will take them to work for them. But it will still be collie labor even under a different name.

Then the big chain stores will form lobbying groups and demand that your country lower its standards even more so their profits are even bigger. To top it all off, all that money people will be spending wont stay in the country. It will be funneled off to Arkansas to give the billionaire Walton's another billion.

Here in the US Wal-Mart gases their meat to make rotting brown cuts look fresh and pink. Sometimes the smell from the fresh looking pink cuts can gag you. They mix ammonia into ground waste meat and sell what would be on a slaughter house floor for $3.00 a pound or More. They sell Australian lamb that tastes like five year old mutton at $12 a pound and gas vegetables and fruit to make them look ripe. They wax their vegetables so they look shiny and clean. They sell rotting produce, moldy bread and over charge you if you are not on the look out for it and they can get away with it.

Wal-Mart in the US overcharges on taxes and may not ring up the marked price if people don't notice. They pay their people so little that many of their employees have to go on food stamps or get subsidized health care to survive. Many chain stores actively discourage Unions to keep their employees poor.

Chain stores like Wal-Mart will only push the envelope to see how much they can get away with. They are not in it to help make food cheaper or better. They are merely in it for the money.