Shop locally with a small business instead of Walmart & help the environment

After watching a documentary on Walmart I decided I would never shop there again.  Why you ask?

Walmart may not be a socially responsible company.  If you shop there you could be contributing to a company which has closed almost every store which has tried to unionize, it treats its suppliers suspiciously.....I'll explain in a bit, and says its a good company by reducing prices everyday.

The documentary said that Walmart achieves lower pricing by getting suppliers to sign on with a contract for a year, so far so good, nothing wrong, but then in the 2nd year gets the supplier to increase capacity and production volume but at a discount compared to the first year.  This happens again in the 3rd year and 4th, but this is where it becomes a little suspicious because some of these companies no longer are profitable because their profits have been cut to the bone, asked their employees to take pay cuts, and owe the banks they took loans out to increase capacity for Walmart huge loans.  

These companies have a tough time surviving  and some of them don't.  How would you like to work for a company which has a customer who continually asks for price cuts, but on the back on the employees?

Shop locally, if you can it is good for the environment by using less energy to get it to the consumer, you're helping the local small business, and not helping reduce the wages of possibly your neighbour by buying from the big multi-national.  

I know the arguement is that Walmart has lower prices, but it is for the loss leaders they advertise and not necessarily everything else they sell.  If you're looking for the cheapest then go to your neighbourhood dollar store, their prices are just as good, you're supporting a local small business :)