It seems that Wal-Mart is increasingly coming under fire from a different perspective than the one that fueled attacks in years past.

Newsweek describes in its latest issue complaints that Wal-Mart has strayed too far from the premise that offered true value to the communities that call Wal-Mart stores home:

“People shop at Wal-Mart because of low prices, not because the company is politically correct?.”

Economist Richard Vedder has chronicled Wal-Mart?s importance in providing low-cost options to families across the country. He described the company?s benefits for Carolina Journal Radio and for the John Locke Foundation?s Shaftesbury Society. (Watch the entire presentation here.)