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Wal-Mart managers mingle in KC while workers shop for stuff they can't afford.

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click to enlarge Flory Arevalo couldn't believe Wal-Mart's $7 price tag for the blouses she is paid $3 a day to make in the Philippines. - Eric Barton
  • Eric Barton
  • Flory Arevalo couldn't believe Wal-Mart's $7 price tag for the blouses she is paid $3 a day to make in the Philippines.

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Walking out of the store with her first-ever Wal-Mart bag, Arevalo said, "We do not have the right in my country to buy things like this."

At the end of their Wal-Mart tour, the group realized they might have missed the free lunch provided at the conference. They're on a tight budget, so they bought two boxes of granola bars before leaving Wal-Mart.

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