Duped by Wal-Mart
How Annie Lee Martin got fooled into becoming a poster girl for the corporate giant in Inglewood
Whatever happens with the initiative next week, the most distressing outcome may be that Martin, a stalwart voter, will make good on a consideration not to support any causes in the future and withdraw from the democratic process altogether. Though in constant need of low-priced goods for her children and grandchildren — the perfect Wal-Mart customer profile — she’s already decided to stop shopping there and is contemplating closing the account she set up there for her granddaughter, herself a mother. "These are not the kind of people you want to be associated with," says Martin. Ironically, the election next week is a moot point for her; like so many other seniors, she voted absentee before she had all the facts and, of course, before she experienced Wal-Mart’s exploitative tendencies firsthand. "I tell you," she says wistfully, "I wish I could get my vote back."
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