Wal-Mart movie

I saw part of Robert Greenwald's : WalMart:The High Cost of Low Price last night at a union screening at a local community college, 400 seats about 2/3 full for the early showing. It was very professional, entertaining, high production values, amazing compilation of information and full coverage around the US and of factory workers in China and Bangladesh. A little use of raw numbers discussing crime in Wal-Mart parking lots, similar to Bowling for Columbine where I would like to see relative numbers like percentages. However, Bowling For Columbine remains one of my favorite movies in spite of my criminology research background and my carp that he should show the less dramatic but no less apalling per capita gun murder rate differences between Canada and the US ( I estimated about 3 times the rate vs 30 times the raw number; Canada has about one tenth the US population). These films are passionate, sometimes humorous essays about serious important issues, like an editorial page feature story which contains many facts but is not an exhaustive monograph. A ll in all a powerful case that the local success story of Sam Walton, who had a buy American policy has grown into a corporate monster which is far too monomaniacal about profits and far too powerful for the USA or the world's good, the very situation for which our great grandparents in their wisdom implemented anti-trust laws. Thus another carp is that I think it should have covered the impact of going public and the US law that nothing but shareholder profit, not environment, not community, not employee good can legally be considered by corporate decision makes, as described so well in the Canadian documentary, The Corporation and made the distinction between the family owned company and the public corporation, but maybe it did. I missed the first half.