>If you want Wal-Mart wages to go up, invest in them. So your saying that if we buy their stock, driving the price up that Walmart would take this a signal to

>If you want Wal-Mart wages to go up, invest in them. So your saying that if we buy their stock, driving the price up that Walmart would take this a signal to invest in employee pay and benefit increases, and not a validation that their current minimum wage, weekly hour cap, and lack of benefit model is working? I have heard of people who believe that voting with your wallet / investments is a way to apply pressure to change a companies practices (somehow dolphins and tuna usually gets brought up). But I have never heard of a theory in which investing in a business you think has bad practices will encourage them to get better.