In a feisty response to critics who accuse Wal-Mart of providing poverty-level wages and few benefits, the executive, H. Lee Scott Jr., said Wal-Mart offered good, stable jobs, noting that when it opens a store, more than 3,000 people often apply for the 300 jobs.
"It doesn't make sense," Mr. Scott said, "that people would line up for jobs that are worse than they could get elsewhere, with fewer benefits and less opportunity."
