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3. Walmart drives sustainable, family-owned businesses out of communities around the world, replacing local businesses with its ugly, junk-filled mega-stores.
4. Walmart underpays and badly treats its workers, as documented in numerous reports.
5. Walmart is one of the biggest corporate welfare queens on the planet, urging its employees to apply for government assistance because of the low salaries and paltry benefits it provides its workers.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/28/why-i-wont-step-foot-in-a-walmart/print
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