Name : ______Date:______Period: _____
Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price
00: #1 Getting Put out of business
1. Who is the CEO of Walmart? ______
2. Who does Walmart believe that they are too important that’s why they should stay the course?
A. ______
B. ______
C. ______
3. H & H Hardware started in what year? ______
4. Who would usually come on their way to work to get supplies? ______
5. What are the real reasons that Don Hunter has never been in a Walmart? ______
6. Dr. John Bruening, Owner of Geauga Vision, feels that Walmart is what kind of company? ______
7. Tom Glassburner, feels that Walmart is operating as what kind of Market Structure? ______
8. Johnny Faenza, H & H Hardware employee, talks about people living in their cars and been evicted from their homes, why? ______
11:36 #2 Employees Healthcare
9. Why are there so many empty buildings in these different cities? ______
10. In Hearne, Texas, many of the companies in the Downtown areas were closed, why?______
11. How much does Wal-Mart drive down retail wages every year? ______
12. In Port Charlotte, Florida, what was the issue with employees staying late? ______
13. Diane Devoy, Wal-Mart associate when she gets paid where does her money go? ______
14. Weldon Nicholson, says that many employees wouldn’t eat for their lunch break, why? ______
15. How do many of the associates pay for their medical insurance?______
16. Wal-Mart costs taxpayers in California how per year? ______
17. How much money did Wal-Mart make in 2003? ______
18. How many Wal-Mart employees in Florida are enrolled on Medicaid? ______
19. How many Wal-Mart employees in Georgia are enrolled in Peachcare for kids? ______
20. Wal-Mart costs taxpayers ______to support its employees!
24:56 #3 Employee Treatment
21. In Loveland, Colorado, Josh Noble, Wal-Mart employee working there for 3 years says he’s gotten what percentage of a raise? ______
22. Josh Noble, wants to start a union, and started talking to various associates to start the union, what did Wal-Mart do to stop the union from forming? ______
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23. In Germany, are Wal-Mart employees are unionized? ______
24. Who does Lee Scott believe that Wal-Mart, Inc. are benefiting? ______
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25. Attorney Shane Youtz says, if Wal-Mart employees work off the clock then they can possibly be fired. Is this legal? ______
26. How did managers change hours for employees working over 40 hours? ______
27. Lee Scott, CEO of Wal-Mart says what percentage of employees are full-time? ______
28. How many hours per week did Wal-Mart consider full-time? ______
29. How were women treated in Wal-Mart? ______
30. How was the Wal-Mart employee Phenix Montgomery discriminated against?______
44:34 #4 Getting Subsidies
31. In Hamilton, Missouri, what does IGA stands for? ______
32. Wal-Mart was giving how many funds to open up a store in close by Brooksfield and Cameron? ______
33. Mr. Red Esry said that the biggest problem that they are up against is ______!
34. Who’s giving Wal-Mart all of the capital to open up a store? ______
35. How long was Esry Super IGA open? ______
36. How much of a subsidy does Wal-Mart get Nationwide? ______
37. What is the total amount of subsidies received by Wal-Mart from Denver Metro? ______
38. What is the total amount of subsidies received by Wal-Mart from St. Louis County? ______
39. What is the total amount of subsidies received by Wal-Mart from Cathedral City, California? ______
40. What is the total amount of subsidies received by Wal-Mart from Washington State? ______
41. What is the total amount of subsidies received by Wal-Mart from Illinois? ______
42. When a Wal-Mart store leaves how many classrooms can fit into that building? ______
54:40 #5 Pollution
43. In Belmont, North Carolina, outside of Charlotte, Catawaba River is the water source for that area, how is Wal-Mart polluting this area? ______
44. How much is the fine that the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) order Wal-Mart to pay for its environmental violations in 2004? ______
1:00:06 #6 China’s Sorrow
45. Why did “Princess” in China, start working? ______
46. “Lil Bear” works at Wal-Mart what is his schedule? ______
47. What do “Princess and Lil Bear” like to do together? ______
48. Wal-Mart has a place for the workers to live, what are they called? ______
49. They were asked to tell false information about what? ______
50. In China, how much do they make per day? ______
51. What is the estimated cost for a Wal-Mart Factory worker to assemble something? ______
52. What is the estimated cost for that same retail item? ______
53. In 2004, Wal-Mart imported ______in retail from China.
54. In Bangladesh, how long do the workers at factories work? ______
55. The Wal-Mart employee Jim Bill Lynn, says “the system was designed to keep the goods flowing to ______.”
56. Why did Jim Bill Lynn get fired? ______
57. What was the earnings for the CEO Lee Scott in 2005? ______
58. What is the average sales employee’s earnings? ______
59. In 2004, Wal-Mart employees gave how much to the CRITICAL NEED FUND? ______
1:16:10 #7 Safety for the Customers
60. In Oxnard, California, Laura Tanaka, was abducted from where? ______
61. How many security cameras were outside in the parking lot at Wal-Mart? ______
62. In Texas, a 19 year old college student was abducted from Wal-Mart, what happened to her? ______
1:25:03 #8 Wal-Mart is told no
63. Why did Sandra Laney, in Chandler, Arizona, form a campaign to keep Wal-Mart out? ______
64. In Englewood, California, Wal-Mart was told no, why? ______