Walmart In Canada

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In the first article, “ROB Ranks Wal-Mart Among Canada’s Best Employers” published by Marketnews.ca on March 29, 2007, the author explains that Wal-Mart ranks high in the Report on Business Magazine’s 50 Best Employers in Canada ranking (McLachlan, 2009). The author then goes on to explain the legitimacy of the ranking and some of the reasons Wal-Mart made it in the cut. It is obvious that this author is a supporter of Wal-Mart and what they have done in Canada. To strengthen the article the author uses facts, such as what qualifies a company to be a top employer, and uses quotes from the Vice President of People for Wal-Mart Canada Corp. This author uses a deontological approach when backing some of the arguments up, because he/she bases the…show more content…
Ribeiro goes on to explain that she believes Wal-Mart is becoming a monopoly and is the means of evil more so than good (McLachlan, 2009). Ribeiro is an absolutist when writing her article because she projects the sense that everything that Wal-Mart is and does is completely in the wrong. She strengthens her arguments by saying, “it is the ‘triumph’ of the anonymous, the substitution of the traditional way of aquiring what we need to feed ourselves, take care of our houses, tools and even medicine, traditionally involved interpersonal relationships, for a new one which is standardized, ‘mercantilized’ and where we know progressively less about who, where and how or under which conditions what we buy is produced” (McLachlan, 2009, p. 288). This statement sums up how negatively Ribeiro feels about Wal-Mart. Another example of her absolutism is when the author says, “In the few decades it has been in existense it has accumulated an amazing history of being sued for many reasons, including illegally preventing the unionizing of its workers, and just about every other imaginable violation of workers’ rights: discrimintation against the disabled, sexual discriminiation, child labor, lack of health care coverage, and unpaid overtime (McLachlan, 2009, p.

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