Caught Using Child Labour

Walmart has always been known for their low prices when juxtaposed with the prices of competitive products. However, behind the ubiquitous sale signs is a more harsher type of reality.

Walmart's "rollback" prices have unethical consequences to child laborers.

According to Marketwire, Walmart’s use of child laborers were made known to the world in 2005. However, instead of alleviating the situation by eliminating future uses of their child laborers, Walmart ran from the situation by abolishing factories where unethical conduct was exposed. However, to what extent are their actions being felt by the children? According to Unicef, child labor interferes with the ability to sustain an education, and chains the children to a life of low wages.

I think this is an extremely unfortunate occurrence in today’s society. Not only are children being stripped of their potential education opportunities, but they are forced to work in dangerous conditions as well.

As mentioned in both Mariah and Evangeline’s blog, this situation is not limited to just Walmart, but many other big name companies such as “Nike” as well. This widespread use of child labor demonstrated in their blogs shows that the act is ubiquitous, and the effects are global.

With Walmart’s participation in the market of child labourers, the price of their products has a higher cost than what comes out of our wallets.