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Jerry Seglin, a business ethics columnist for The New York Times, once spoke on the topic, “Is it ethical to shop at Wal-mart?� Seglin began his remarks by giving a description of two retail stores. The first one was described as a company “founded by a folksy entrepreneur whose notions of thrift, industry, and the square deal were pure Ben Franklin� (“Is it ethical,� 2004). The organization’s low prices had spurred productivity and had helped to combat inflation (“Is it ethical,� 2004). The company was America’s most admired company.
The other retail store was described as a “very big discount store� that “will do just about anything to get bigger� including hiring illegal immigrants to mop its floors, locking workers inside the store overnight and crushing many an individual proprietor in its ambitions to grow bigger and bigger (“Is it ethical,� 2004). Which one of these descriptions represents Wal-Mart one might ask? Both of them do. And......

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