27 June 2009

Another reason to oppose Walmart

Walmart is notorious for forcing mom-and-pop stores out of business; paying its workers poverty-level wages with no health care benefits; and violating workers' rights, both in the Chinese sweatshops that manufacture its goods and in its stores throughout the U.S. where those products are sold.

And now there's a new reason to avoid Walmart. Earlier this week, WakeUpWalMart.com released a new report detailing how Walmart's highly touted $4.00 drug prescriptions are obtained from the controversial Indian drug manufacturer Ranbaxy Laboratories, LTD.

According to the report, Ranbaxy "has been repeatedly investigated by the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Justice for 'inadequate' safeguards against contamination, falsification of records and submitting false information to the FDA."

Still, Walmart continues to sell drugs obtained from Ranbaxy, because they're cheap.

So those low prices may prove much more costly than you ever imagined. Just so the Walmart executives and shareholders can grow richer and richer.

>> Read the report.

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