The Case for Wal-Mart by Coster and Edmonds - Essay Example

The authors make a distinction between job and career in order to defend Wal-Mart who pays relatively low wages and they establish that it provides jobs rather than careers. They are also of all contempt for the charges that Wal-Mart is more anti-industry, anti-free market twaddle and they suggest that the prevailing American phenomenon of attacking "bigness" gives the reason for Wal-Mart being the single target for such accusations. The article proves that there is no evidence of Wal-Mart ever-increasing prices once it is established in a market.

In their attempt to support the cause of Wal-Mart, the authors use simile and hyperbole: "Hating Wal-Mart is the equivalent of hating Bill Gates." (Coster and Edmonds) The article provides statistical shreds of evidence to prove the American love for Wal-Mart: it pinnacled the 2002 Fortune 500 with a revenue of $219 billion. Thus, the article concludes by establishing that the Americans love Wal-Mart "because it gives us variety and abundance because it saves us time and wrangling [and] because no matter where we are, it's always there when we need it.

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