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What Best Symbolizes America Today? Wal-Mart! Poll Shows
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by Scott Wu | September 28, 2009 at 02:11 pm
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60 Minutes and Vanity Fair conducted a monthly national survey. One of the key questions is which company "best symbolizes America today"? The overwhelming majority voted for Wal-Mart, the retail giant.
Wal-Mart received a total of 48% of the votes, and the second place was Google, with only 15% of the votes. Microsoft was behind Google at 13%, followed by NFL at 6%. The financial giant Goldman Sachs got only 3% of the popular votes.
The survey has a nice demographic breakdown of the results, showing the age and gender groups.
Another question asked if Wal-Mart set up vaccination stations, or other health-care services such as dental, eye, or basic check-ups, would you become a Wal-Mart patient? In this case the answers were divided, with 33% "No", 25% "Yes", and 31% "Don't know".
How many people voted as a result of frustration is unknown. Perhaps there should be a question asking if they are voters are regular Wal-Mart shoppers.
speaking of Wal-Mart, 48 percent felt that the chain “best symbolizes America today.” True, some of those people might have meant that cynically. (But only a cynic would really think that.)
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at 15:47 on September 28th, 2009
Gawd help America!
at 16:06 on September 28th, 2009
I'm with you Blue Crush! Walmart--a corporation that perpetuates Chines slave labor so that it can flood the American market with cheap goods. Walmart--a corporation that has a large percentage of its workers on some form of government assistance.
Walmart and corporations like it are the American workers future; i.e. a service economy and nothing else. Yes! Gawd help America!
at 17:15 on September 28th, 2009
China does not allow Slave labour Rory. It does have cheeper labour then the US and does have cases of abuse same as in the US, those are prosecuted though when ever discovered.
India does have still today, slave and Child labour and so do many South Asian, African countries as well.
at 16:50 on September 29th, 2009
Come on Paschen! JEEZ! How old are the little girls that work in the factories that produce the cheap goods for corporations such as Walmart? How many hours do the little girls work per day? How many days per week do the little girls work? What kind of conditions do the little girls work under? What do the little girls get paid per hour, week, month, and year? Are the little girls allowed to form a union?
It's Slave Labor pure and simple! And just because the little girls are not out picking cotton and signing "Jimmy Crack Corn" doesn't mean that it's not slave labor. And just because the Chinese Government says it doesn't allow slave labor doesn't mean that it's true! The U.S.outlawed slavery years ago. And in the early 1900s, the U.S. passed a number of laws protecting workers from the very excesses that China subjects its workers to today. However, the U.S. got around the slavery and worker protection issue by outsourcing to countries such as China. It all boils down to exploitation and the American people had better wake up before they find themselves working for 50 cents per day . . . .
at 16:56 on September 28th, 2009
Yep, Gawd Help America, Over to you Jerry (Springer)!
at 16:57 on September 29th, 2009
Barry: It's sick out there and getting sicker! BTW: Did you know that, here in America, gun shop owners are flocking to Walmart to by up ammunition and then marking it up? HA!
at 17:06 on September 28th, 2009
The demographic of the poll shows age and gender, but I would be interested in seeing where they polled and in which states.
And were they polling outside a Walmart store.
at 17:16 on September 28th, 2009
Aren't there Walmarts on every main-street corner these days? Bit like dear old Tesco in the UK
at 17:15 on September 28th, 2009
Sad symbol.
at 19:59 on September 28th, 2009
Call me a cynic if you wish - but I'll bet most of those who polled were being cynical and saying that because the US is a consumerist nation...oh...wait.
at 11:09 on September 29th, 2009
I'm thinking if they ask foreigners which company best symbolizes America, Wal-Mart would probably be the top choice as well.