That's what my second point was alluding to - I should have been more clear: Since the premise is that the demand for Wal-Mart's products has fallen due to wor

That's what my second point was alluding to - I should have been more clear: Since the premise is that the demand for Wal-Mart's products has fallen due to worker unproductivity, their bet is that there will be a new demand curve altogether by increasing their productivity, one that is shifted to the "right" of the original one. The price of labor is counteracted by the new demand for it.