Wal-Mart Deserves 2009 Nobel Peace Prize As It Gives Consumers $400 Million Holiday Gift

WAL-MART PRESS RELEASE - Walmart (WMT) announced Friday another delivery of weekly savings to help families across America cut the cost of Christmas. Operation Main Street initiatives have saved shoppers an estimated $300 million thus far this holiday season. In the remaining days for holiday shopping, Walmart projects it will save its customers another $100 million over and above its every day low prices.

Weekly savings beginning in stores on Sunday, Dec. 14 underscore Walmart’s promise to provide shoppers with savings that matter when they are needed most. With Christmas two weeks away, Rollbacks and more new savings are focused on gifts and preparing for the holiday, from gifts for him at $10 and $20 to entertainment products and brands, including a 2GB Toshiba laptop and 32-inch Sharp LCD HDTV both priced at $398 starting Sunday.

According to Forbes, Wal-Mart was the most generous corporation in America in 2007, giving away $301 million in cash gifts to the Children’s Miracle Network, Feeding America, The Salvation Army, the American Red Cross, the United Way of America, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Wal-Mart was almost twice as generous as the most profitable company in the world, Exxon, which gave “only” $173 million in 2007, and was #3 in the Forbes ranking.

MP: Wal-Mart has done more to benefit local communities and consumers around the country with $400 million of savings just during this holiday season (over and above Wal-Mart’s already every day low prices) than through its generous charitable giving during the entire last year of “only” $300 million.

By itself, Wal-Mart’s $400 million “holiday gift” to American consumers around the country from extra-low prices will probably make it the most generous, charitable corporation in the U.S. this year, and that’s not even counting the estimated $300 million it will give away to charities in 2008 (assuming it matches last year’s gifts). Gotta love “Saint Wal-Mart.”

Here’s a case for Wal-Mart getting the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize (it’s too late now, but maybe 2009?), for lifting so many people out of poverty, benefiting so many poor people with “everyday low prices,” selling prescription drugs that are almost free ($4), lowering inflation, and creating more than a million jobs.

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