- [T]he heartwarming opening scene is basically a con: You're introduced to the owners of a mom and pop store putatively driven out of business by a new Wal-Mart... except it turns out that the place closed months before the Wal-Mart opened, and (as the owner himself describes it) for reasons having nothing to do with Sam Walton's latest borg cube.
Oh, itís that kind of documentary
Julian Sanchez links to lots of interesting Wal-Mart related stuff here. For instance he (while giving a tip of the hat to Byron York) notes the following about the new documentary, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price:
