Walmart Case Study

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Wal-Mart Case Study

Introduction

Business social responsibility is a virtue that dictates how a business relates with the stakeholders in the society . It is to the interest of everyone for large discount stores to give small traders opportunities to sell their wares . Sometimes large discount stores act inhumanly by opening up stores even in small neighborhoods . This move is obviously seen as a selfish move that deprives the small merchants the opportunity to thrive . Wal-Mart is considered one such discount stores . Kaiser

(as cited in Toney 2007 ) says 56 of Americans consider Wal-Mart bad for America . Although the retail giant has been successful with its `always low prices ' slogan , looking from the critical perspective of the general impacts on local merchants , there is more than meets the eye . In this case , the customer probably is the end beneficiary while the local merchandisers are squeezed out of business

Wal-Mart and claims of struggling small retailers

Wal-Mart , the world 's biggest retailer is indicted of wiping out small retailers . The retail chain is suffering image challenges due to these accusations . Wal-Mart is under siege on purported unfair treatment of small retailers by unnecessarily opening up numerous branches . For instance , in Mississippi , the retail chain in August 2002 opened new supercenters in Oxford and Batesville . These are traditionally small retailer towns . In other Mississippi towns like Corinth , Columbus and Senatobia , Wal-Mart has set up have Supercenter stores . Towns like Tupelo have two supercenters (Gillette , 2002 . The main bone...