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AttachmentG company increases prices on those products. Artificially loweri local businesses, but has major ramifications on manufacturing an Predatory pricing forces competing retailers to sell at a loss, products because they cannot compete with the artificially low p businesses and has major implications for manufacturers. Consume fewer units because Wal-Mart will be the only store left selling 34 losses for manufacturers by devaluating goods and impacting quan According to Bloomberg News, this was done on a massive scale thi managers in the U.S. received instructions to mark up an average 35 this holiday season, according to a company e-mail send the mont Wal-Marts power to sell products below their typical market valu 36 employees and the closure of U.S. plants in favor of outsourcing Eighty-five percent of Wal-Marts items are made overseas. The meg numerous accusations of unacceptable conditions in the factories abuses include: forced overtime, locked bathrooms, starvation w 37 access to health care, and workers fired and blacklisted if they Costs to Taxpayers Because many of Wal-Marts employees do not earn enough to make to public assistance. Each Wal-Mart store, averaging 200 employe 38 approximately $420,750 annually in public social services used b Wal-Mart has thousands of associates who qualify for Medicaid and other pu 39 taxpayers to foot the bill. For instance, Wal-Mart has the greatest number of associates an 40 associate dependents on Medicaid in Ohio, costing taxpayers $44.8 According to the group Wal-Mart Subsidy Watch, a non-profit watch already received subsidies worth about $52 million in New York S locations in New York have challenged their property tax assessm 41 $766,000. Wal-Mart has already cost New Yorkers millions of dollars, even states largest marketplace. Page26of95