{"id":1,"date":"2010-09-09T04:02:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T04:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/markmcc\/?p=1"},"modified":"2010-12-01T19:52:33","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T03:52:33","slug":"wal-mart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/markmcc\/2010\/09\/09\/wal-mart\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WalMart, one of America\u2019s largest department stores known for their low prices and large variety of products, has been the circle of much controversy over the years. WalMart\u2019s unethical business practices being the target. A major issue is the fact that products are said to have been \u201cmanufactured in the US,\u201d when really a large number of products are created in workshops overseas. Not only are they lying to their customers but they are essentially promoting these unethical practises. WalMart\u2019s worldwide locations as well as the vast amount of stores in the US has employed more than any other company in the US. Although, a large part of their staff live below the poverty line and make less than 20,000 dollars a year.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/markmcc\/files\/2010\/09\/walmart1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7\" title=\"walmart\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/markmcc\/files\/2010\/09\/walmart1-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/markmcc\/files\/2010\/09\/walmart1-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/markmcc\/files\/2010\/09\/walmart1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Women are even more underpaid then men and women have been the target of discrimination by the corporation over the years. Promotions and training have been given to men and not women in the past. WalMart is the largest employer of women in the states, but if these practices continue will that still be true? Can WalMart continue their success while having so many unethical issues under their belt? Maybe their reign will come to an end sometime.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the two links below where I found much discussion over these and numerous other unethical issues walmart has been accused of!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardpublishing.com\/walmart.html\">Here&#8217;s one<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nupge.ca\/news_2008\/n06au08b.htm\">And here&#8217;s another<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WalMart, one of America\u2019s largest department stores known for their low prices and large variety of products, has been the circle of much controversy over the years. WalMart\u2019s unethical business practices being the target. A major issue is the fact that products are said to have been \u201cmanufactured in the US,\u201d when really a large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3023,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/markmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/markmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/markmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/markmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3023"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/markmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/markmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/markmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/markmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/markmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/markmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}