“Wal-Mart: The High Cost Of Low Price” Taking Berlin By Storm
Robert Greenwald’s film, ”Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price” is taking the Berlin International Film Festival by storm. The following story is from Expatica.
In the film, which has been screened to critical acclaim at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, the employees set out a string of damning allegations about working conditions at the company and how it sets about undercutting rivals.
“Wal-Mart is the poster child for the worst in corporate behaviour,” Greenwald said after his film screened to enthusiastic audiences in Berlin. More than 2,000 Wal-Mart stores are located outside the US.
With low wages and prohibitively high company health insurance, a former employee in the film related how when she questioned managers she was told: “If you can’t do it we will get someone else to do it.”
Needless to say, the Greenwald movie, which has secured considerable interest from both TV companies and film distributors around the world, has triggered a major counter-assault from Wal-Mart, which has dismissed the movie as propaganda.
Click here to read Greenwald’s interview with the German Web site Spiegel Online.
Posted by Brian Kline on Wednesday, February 15, 2006
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COMMENTS
I am not surprised at this film making it big in Germany. Wal-Mart has a tendency to see everything as an American-styled Manifest Destiny. This has to rub some people the wrong way when they may feel a certain sense of pride in their own countries and cultures. Wal-Mart’s problems include the fact that it doesn’t seem to understand that not everyone outside of the U.S.A. is yearning to become wither Americans or simply Americanized! Some people value their own local cultures!
no_wal-martian_here in Colorado Springs
Friday, February 17 at 02:03 PM
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