TV Frontline - Season 23 Episode 5 : Is Wal-Mart Good for America? Frontline - Season 23 Episode 5 : Is Wal-Mart Good for America? 7.4/10 by 46 users FRONTLINE offers two starkly contrasting images: one of empty storefronts in Circleville, Ohio, where the local TV manufacturing plant has closed down; the other--a sea of high rises in the South China boomtown of Shenzhen. The connection between American job losses and soaring Chinese exports? Wal-Mart. For Wal-Mart, China has become the cheapest, most reliable production platform in the world, the source of up to $25 billion in annual imports that help the company deliver everyday low prices to 100 million customers a week. But while some economists credit Wal-Mart's single-minded focus on low costs with helping contain U.S. inflation, others charge that the company is the main force driving the massive overseas shift to China in the production of American consumer goods, resulting in hundreds of thousands of lost jobs and a lower standard of living here at home. https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-wal-mart-good-america/ Details Casts Posters Images Title Frontline - Season 23 Episode 5 : Is Wal-Mart Good for America? Alternative Titles PBS Frontline, Frontline (PBS) First Air Date 1983-01-17 Last Air Date 2025-07-01 Number of Episodes 838 Number of Seasons 44 Genres Documentary, News, Networks PBS, Casts Will Lyman Plot Keywords , Self - Narrator (voice) Will Lyman Episodes List Frontline Season 23 :Episode 1 Sacred Ground Sacred Ground 2004-09-17 Since it began in 1983, Frontline has been airing public-affairs documentaries that explore a wide scope of the complex human experience. Frontline's... 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