I just love stuff about Wally. Gets the fur flyin' every time.
I can understand why folks get so worked up.
There are enough good reasons.
But what I wonder is - in all of this furious debate - do people forget sometimes that Wally is just a retailer?
Back in the days of Sears Roebuck, or S.S. Kresge, or Woolworths, or Gimbels and Maceys - back there in the Miracle on 34th St. days...
did anyone ever ask any of those retail giants to shoulder the burden of an American workforce?
Who worked in these places back then? How many of them were providing a living wage for an entire family?
If these were the "McJobs" of that era, I don't think they were actually holding up an American middle class.
Industry did that, did it not?

The point is - whatever Wally's profit margin actually is, and however many laws it happens to break, however many union attempts it busts, and no matter what track record it has sucking up subsidies galore from the public sector...if Wally did a complete about-face and pulled an Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas morning after being haunted by the ghosts of Rooseveldt, Joe Hill, Eugene Debs and Emma Goldman (now there's a thought!) and donated 90% of its profit margin to the welfare of American workers - this would still be the tiniest drop in the bucket of what ails our economy.

Wally's just the scapegoated sexy poster child for a lot of well-meaning but misplayed darts, I think.