Many vendors and suppliers are forced by Wal-Mart’s low price guarantee goal by cutting down on their production costs to satisfy their organization's profit margin as well as Wal-Mart’s demands. For this reason, many of Wal-Mart’s vendors have taken heed of the mass retailer’s production move to cheaper production locations, such as China where the workers are paid minimal wages to produce goods for Wal-Mart, resulting in over $18 billion in goods which has an impact on the American workforce. In regard to the American workforce, Wal-Mart has been in the media for under compensating their employees by allowing minimal hours at minimum wage, resulting in part-time jobs with no healthcare benefits. (Ferrell, Fraedrich & Ferrell, 2013).

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