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As shoppers flock to the stores for holiday gifts, some may harbor mixed feelings about the nation\u2019s largest retailer. Overall, 69% of those familiar with Wal-Mart have a favorable opinion of the company, a Pew Center for the People & the Press found in a survey last December. Still, 31% of the public has an unfavorable view,a considerably higher negative rating than accordedmany other major firms, and Wal-Mart\u2019s generally high rating didn\u2019t keep the firm from suffering a 0.1% drop in same-store sales over the bellwether Thanksgiving shopping weekend, news of which led the stock market downward the following Monday. Nearly every American lives close enough to a Wal-Mart to shop there, and 84% said they had done so in the past year. Praise for the retailer\u2019s low prices, wide selection and convenience flowed freely, and 81% of those with a Wal-Mart nearby judged it a good place to shop. Somewhat less glowing, however, were judgments about Wal-Mart\u2019s effect on communities and the nation as a whole, and a third of the public (34%) rated it a bad place to work.Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s the number of Americans familiar with Wal-Mart, who have a favorable opinion of the company according to a Pew survey. That high rating didn’t keep the nation’s largest retailer from suffering a 0.1% drop in same-store sales over the bellwether Thanksgiving shopping weekend, news of which led the stock market downward on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"sub_headline":"","sub_title":"","_prc_public_revisions":[],"_ppp_expiration_hours":0,"_ppp_enabled":false,"ai_generated_summary":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"relatedPosts":[],"datacite_doi":"","datacite_doi_citation":"","_prc_seo_qr_attachment_id":0,"spoken_article_player_enabled":true,"displayBylines":true,"footnotes":"","prc_watchers":[],"_prc_fork_parent":0,"_prc_fork_status":"","_prc_active_fork":0},"categories":[],"bylines":[791],"collection":[],"datasets":[],"_post_visibility":[],"formats":[467],"_fund_pool":[],"languages":[],"regions-countries":[515],"research-teams":[],"workflow-status":[],"class_list":["post-19883","short-read","type-short-read","status-publish","hentry","bylines-pew-research-center-staff","formats-short-read","regions-countries-united-states"],"label":"Short Read","post_parent":0,"word_count":183,"canonical_url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2006\/11\/27\/wal-mart-nation\/","art_direction":false,"_embeds":[],"watchers":[],"table_of_contents":[],"datacite_doi":"","prc_seo_data":{"title":"Wal-Mart Nation","description":"That's the number of Americans familiar with Wal-Mart, who have a favorable opinion of the company according to a Pew survey. 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