The following statement was taken directly (in it's entirety) from Wal-Mart.com, where they address their foreign factory principals, policies, and procedures:

        Sweatshop Allegations
        Wal-Mart strives to do business only with factories run legally and ethically. We continue to commit extensive resources to
        making the Wal-Mart system one of the very best. We require suppliers to ensure that every factory conforms to local
        workplace laws and that there is no illegal child or forced labor. Wal-Mart also works with several different outside monitoring
        firms to randomly inspect thousands of these factories each year to ensure compliance. In fact, we conduct more than 300
        factory inspections each week as part of our commitment. In short, we have no desire to do business with any factory being
        run illegally or unethically, and we feel that our program is helping to improve working conditions and create economic
        opportunity for workers around the world.