Arguement Paper_ Is Wal-Mart beneficial?

Is Wal-Mart beneficial?

If people do not have a car, it will be hard to get daily products because Wal-Mart is located in a vacant place, which is far from your house. Why do we have to buy daily products at Wal-Mart, which is far from our home? The reason is that Wal-Mart makes small shops around your home go out of business. In few years, Wal-Mart will be the only place to get something, and maybe we have to buy a car from Wal-Mart. If we do not want to make our future like this, you should know why Wal-Mart is not beneficial for us. Wal-Mart is not beneficial because of bad quality, bad service and it is harmful business practices for American economy.

First, it sells bad quality products. Wal-Mart’s goal is to make money by selling many products which are cheap. Maybe that is why some people like to buy products at Wal-Mart. However, sometimes we need to go to Wal-Mart again after we buy something to exchange or return because of its bad quality. For example, clothes in Wal-Mart are not fashionable and
the material is made of is low quality. Moreover, generally, we cannot expect to buy good quality fresh food in Wal-Mart because “cheap” equals “bad quality.” If we do not waste our valuable time exchanging bad quality products, we should not make people sick because of bad quality food. Nobody want to get a risk from bad quality products.

Second, Wal-Mart does not have good service. We can ask anything about products at a small market if we want, but not at Wal-Mart. The employees in Wal-Mart are hard workers, but they get low pay. Do you think they feel like to working?
How can we expect good service? We can not because most employees are not to proud of their job themselves. In addition, the worst point is about Wal-Mart their unsatisfactory training. Sellers have to know about products and have to answer consumer’s questions; therefore, definitely we can not expect the answer about the products. How can we expect good service? They have so many products that the employees can not be expected to know details or price of a particular products. They are not professionals and they can not know about every product because Wal-Mart is not like small shops.
In addition, we can not special order. Unfortunately, Wal-Mart does not want to order products which are sold out already, for just one consumer. For example, if they do not have product that we want, we must look for another shop. People do not have a choice and they will buy from somewhere. In contrast, we can special order if we need at a small shop. We can
claim our rights because we are consumers. In fact, they do not have to do because even though they have so many consumers. Most consumers lose sight of this fact.

Finally, Wal-Mart is harmful to the American economy. Nearly all American small shops have been put out of business due to the cheap prices and convenience that Wal-Mart brings. Already in some small towns across America Wal-Mart is the only place to buy daily products families need. If Wal-Mart were to raise the prices drastically, or stop the business for a few days, then imagine what will happen to these small towns. Wal-Mart’s all products are cheap. As people know, the reason Wal-Mart can sell products so cheaply is because they buy their products from companies in China, Indonesia, India, and other countries. Wal-Mart does not buy from American companies. Because of this reason, they are hurting American economy. We should claim our rights ourselves to Wal-Mart.

Some people argue that Wal-Mart is beneficial because it is the cheapest place to buy products. Poorer people usually
have to work many hours just to make a living. Therefore, Wal-Mart is nice because a poorer person can buy cheap food,
cheap clothes at the same store and then go back to his busy life. This helps poorer people buy goods they need. However,
because Wal-Mart has such great influence in America if they were to buy all products which made in America demand for
goods made in America would increase. As a result, there would be better paying jobs available to the poorer people in
America.

Wal-Mart has worse quality products and service than small shops, and it hurts American economy. Korean people are
pickier about quality and service, therefore, even though Wal-Mart, which opened in Korea, it failed. If we need to buy
something, we do not have to drive across town, we can walk to shop down the street. Let us be like Koreans and not shop
at Wal-Mart.