...19,000 youngsters between the ages of 14 and 16 work after school in hundreds of Wal-Mart [de Mexico] stores...and none of them receives a red cent in wages or fringe benefits... [Its] 62 Superama supermarkets display blue signs [saying]...: OUR VOLUNTEER PACKERS COLLECT NO SALARY, ONLY THE GRATUITY THAT YOU GIVE THEM... [The] kids are said to be “volunteering” their services to Wal-Mart and are therefore not subject to the requirements and regulations that would otherwise apply under the country’s labor laws. But some [Mexican] officials...view the practice as regrettable, if not downright exploitative... Wal-Mart did not invent the bagger program..., nor is it alone...in benefiting from the toil of unpaid adolescents... [In] its defense, Wal-Mart says it fully complies with a 1999 agreement covering the teenaged baggers that the Mexico City municipal government negotiated with the Supermarkets and Department Stores Association of Mexico... Wal-Mart says the bagger program was designed “in accordance with the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) guidelines.” That’s questionable... [also refers to Comercial Mexicana, Gigante]