Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (Bentonville, Ark.) made a public statement following the release over the weekend of the documentary movie, “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price.”
“The 138 million people who shop at our stores every week speak volumes more about Wal-Mart than any special interest video,” said the retail giant. “In fact, last month, our loyal customers spoke very loudly. Wal-Mart just enjoyed its best October ever — and our best Halloween ever. No matter how much Robert Greenwald [the producer of the movie] talks to the special interests, he just won’t change the personal experiences that our customers, our associates, and the American people have with our company.”
“Mr. Greenwald makes the same errors in the full length video that he did in the trailer,” the statement goes on to say. “He continues to anchor his case against Wal-Mart to the story of H&H Hardware in Middlefield, Ohio, which closed before Wal-Mart opened and recently reopened under new ownership. We now know Mr. Greenwald even rejected the wishes of the store’s original owner who, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, “told movie producers not to tie H&H’s closing to Wal- Mart’s opening.”
Wal-Mart has created a web site, www.walmartfacts.com, “for a detailed analysis of Mr. Greenwald’s errors and distortions.”