Don't think of the correlation as between WalMart's low pay and the current wave of shoplifting as being direct, think of as karma. For decades WalMart has pio

Don't think of the correlation as between WalMart's low pay and the current wave of shoplifting as being direct, think of as karma. For decades WalMart has pioneered low prices and below-sustenance wages. For much of America WalMart is the face of devastated small towns and the complete loss of local economies. It's probably not employees of WalMart stealing steaks and single pairs of underwear. It's probably everyone else who no longer has a local job opportunity, has lower wages because their family business folded to WalMart, or has trouble feeding their kids because the closest job now only pays $12/hr because _all they have to compete with locally is WalMart_. You cannot artificially depress the wages and economy of an area and then complain that everyone around you is doing poor people things (stealing to stay alive or pay rent). No sympathy for WalMart from me.