<i>Walmart is certainly not good for Walmart suppliers</i><p>No.  Wal-Mart offers suppliers enormous volume at the cost of tiny margins.  Sometimes this is a bad deal for suppliers, but Wal-Mart sells the equivalent of $200 worth of stuff to every human being on this planet, <i>every year</i>, and has done so for some time.  If this was unsustainable, it would have stopped by now.<p>Disdain for Wal-Mart is disdain for products that have no story attached to them.  Taste-makers promote this attitude -- in part by pushing narratives about how Wal-Mart hurts whoever it does business with -- because their livelihood comes from telling stories about stuff people buy.