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Bad publicity for Walmart?

I'm listening to a discussion on CNBC right now about Walmart. If you follow the news, you know that 300 illegal immigrant Walmart workers were arrested about two weeks ago.

The CNBC panel was pondering whether illegal immigrant issues would tarnish Walmart's all-American image and hurt their sales because of the bad publicity.

I don't think so. I think Americans just want to buy stuff as cheap as possible, and if that means holding their nose while they wade into a store that's cleaned up by illegal immigrants, then that's what they'll do to buy stuff cheap.

posted Wednesday, November 05, 2003