Walmart. What Do You Think?

[RickWhite]

Bitching about Wall mart is the favorite past time of ignorant losers with nothing better to do than sit around and think of people to blame for all of the problems they bring upon themselves through their bad attitudes and crappy work ethic.

Wall mart puts food on people's tables. It provides goods at affordable prices and it brings in revenue for the City, State and Federal Governments. What good are the dip shits who sit around pissing and moaning doing - none.

It's like the union roofers I saw picketing a building for using non union roofers. I felt like saying "why don't you put down the sign and pick up some fucking tools and get to work like the guys up there earning their living you lazy, entitlement minded bastard." Ah, but why work for a fair wage when you can make three times what you are worth?

I say fuck 'em.

 

[swampgrower]

walmart is awesome i worked there and they really care about their employees.

 

[anhedonia]

Bitching about Wall mart is the favorite past time of ignorant losers with nothing better to do than sit around and think of people to blame for all of the problems they bring upon themselves through their bad attitudes and crappy work ethic.

Wall mart puts food on people's tables. It provides goods at affordable prices and it brings in revenue for the City, State and Federal Governments. What good are the dip shits who sit around pissing and moaning doing - none.

It's like the union roofers I saw picketing a building for using non union roofers. I felt like saying "why don't you put down the sign and pick up some fucking tools and get to work like the guys up there earning their living you lazy, entitlement minded bastard." Ah, but why work for a fair wage when you can make three times what you are worth?

I say fuck 'em.

WOW! This guy just doesn't quit! Keep posting.
I used to be a mason tender before being disabled. Worked 10+ plus hrs a day. So yeah...Im not familiar with work at all. Now ram your head back up your ass and make us some more posts!

 

[upnorth2505]

Bitching about Wall mart is the favorite past time of ignorant losers with nothing better to do than sit around and think of people to blame for all of the problems they bring upon themselves through their bad attitudes and crappy work ethic.

Wall mart puts food on people's tables. It provides goods at affordable prices and it brings in revenue for the City, State and Federal Governments. What good are the dip shits who sit around pissing and moaning doing - none.

It's like the union roofers I saw picketing a building for using non union roofers. I felt like saying "why don't you put down the sign and pick up some fucking tools and get to work like the guys up there earning their living you lazy, entitlement minded bastard." Ah, but why work for a fair wage when you can make three times what you are worth?

I say fuck 'em.

Holy crap, what got up your ass? So companies owe no responsibility to their employees whatsoever? If no presure was put on these companies, they would be free to do whatever they wanted. And they would.

And as far as your union adversion goes, we can all thank unions (whether we were in one or not) for increasing the standard of living.

If you had your way, we would live in some forced labor state. If anyone is a fascist and commie, its you. Your attitude makes most people

Peace, love, and may the force be with you.

 

[Antidisestablishmentarian]

All that stuff wal mart offers in canada i.e wages, benefits, are offered to all full time employees across the globe.

I worked there, my wife ran one(store manager), we were offered vision, dental, medical, profit sharing.

Employees that stay with wally world for a long time can retire as millionaires.

They like to show a video in training that shows the results of their profit sharing.

I will say, that ever since Sam Walton died, wal mart has been a different beast, expanding faster than the universe(hyperbole).

 

[Dragline]

I avoid Wal Mart like the plague. Not because of anything having to do with the company. I just hate having to walk all over a 250,000 square foot store to find one item. Im not a "shopper". I hate malls too. I usually go to Target over Wal Mart anyway.

 

[Illegal Smile]

You may not have them in your area but there is a store from Michigan/Ohio called Meijer. They are a dept store supermarket combo and they are killing everything in my town since they opened only six months ago.

 

[tical916]

You may not have them in your area but there is a store from Michigan/Ohio called Meijer. They are a dept store supermarket combo and they are killing everything in my town since they opened only six months ago.

The food isn't the worst. I hate Walmart. Fuckers fired my for ordering food while on work. They have their own little FBI team watching over the store.

 

[RickWhite]

So companies owe no responsibility to their employees whatsoever? If no presure was put on these companies, they would be free to do whatever they wanted. And they would.

They have a responsibility to pay you the wage you AGREED to when you were hired.

A much better question is why do you feel that people are entitled to be paid more than they are worth?

And why do you think that living high on the hog is a basic necessity? I work in Detroit and every day I see supposedly "poor" people driving Hummers with 24"spinner rims while living in a $10,000 house and using food stamps.

Few bottom tear Walmart workers are supporting families. Most of them are kids, retired people or wifes bringing in second incomes. According to the their published numbers they are paying just under $10/hr and as people stated here they also pay benefits. That is damn fair by any standards.

I do believe employers have a moral obligation to at least pay a fair wage and it seems Walmart is. However, I can not stand this mentality that people have that makes them feel they are entitled to earn a given wage.

And unions while having done good in the past are now one of the largest problems in the US. The UAW with their greed and entitlement mentality has destroyed the auto industry and therefore the state of Michigan pretty much single handedly. And now they all have the gall to drive around with those stupid bumper stickers about buying foreign. I want to print one up that says "lost your home? Thank the UAW."

I used to be in the IBEW and what I saw was a bunch of guys who pretty much stone walled other people from working so they could make far more than they were worth. And they felt absolutely entitled to it. Disgusting is what it was.

 

[jeff f]

I am all for Walmart.

It really comes down to how you look at the situation. The people that are losing their businesses that are in the area of walmart are doing so because they charge more for the same products and/or they are a pain in the ass because you cannot find everything that they wish to purchase.

But if you look at the entire amount of money that the community that shops there saves over the course of a year, the benefit the people get from saving money outweighs that business that just tanked.

-The city is gaining money from the extra taxes.
-The workers spend their paychecks in the areas they live so that money stays local.
-The people buying the goods have extra funds they can turn and use in the local economy.

And for the businesses that go under even though it can be devastating to lose your business, they are able to restart as something that is needed by the community that is lacking, meaning the resources are being moved to a more efficient use instead of a less efficient retail store.

Like say instead of a catch all local shop they can become a local hydroponics store, something that would compliment what walmart offers while still differentiating from them with a higher quality product.

who the fuck are you..... and what have you done with han?

wow, nice post dude.

 

[jeff f]

Most people aren't ethical shoppers and could care less where thier products come from as stated in these other posts..

where do "ethical" shoppers in your neighborhood shop?

 

[jeff f]

Hey, a 12" Airstone at PetCo is around 7 bucks. WalMart its 3 bucks.

A dual outlet pump is over 20 bucks else where. Only 10 bucks at WalMart.

Fleishmann's Yeast is 20 bucks at Ralphs. $4.39 at WalMart.

Cream of Wheat and Malt-O-Meal is almost 5 bucks at the market. Target has a larger size fot $3.89. WalMart is the same.

Price honey at Target and WalMart. About half of a regular market.

WalMart offers generic prescription drugs for 4 bucks, same with Target.

Both WalMart and Target are a boon to poor people, seniors, smart shoppers and pot growers.

why on earth would you buy cream of wheat?

 

[jeff f]

Interesting. I think that very few empolyees get these benfits in the US. I am guessing that they have certain standards they must meet in Canada as a government requirement? Of course, we are much more traditional capitalists in our country.

I guess as you would expect they develop a business model that suits them best for whatever country they are in. The U.S. being less "socialist" I would guess imposes much less in the way of restrictions.

Walmart has huge economies of scale. Do we or should we really care about anything at all?

you obviously have no clue about walmart. they are very competetive with benefits and they put what a mom and pop shop could offer to shame.

 

[anhedonia]

where do "ethical" shoppers in your neighborhood shop?

At the store. http://www.ethicalshopping.com/

 

[anhedonia]

Biggest wal-mart tool. How could you take that guy seriously?????
Listen to him lie and the faces he makes its disgusting. At one part he even shushes the interviewer
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[JangleGrow]

I love Walmart. They provide me with the products I want at the price I want them at.

They employ millions of people not just in the USA but the world around. People that might not have jobs otherwise. People bitch about wages but those people are willing to work for it, so it must be good for them.

I don't buy everything there but anything that's cheap and plastic, they've got it for the best price, helping me to stretch my salary.

Slave labor? Hardly, I mean it's not on par with wages in this country but neither is the cost of living. It's the ratio of wages to COL that's important, not the overall salary.

If it's actually forced labor, then I don't support it but voluntary labor for any wage isn't immoral or unjust, IMO. It's simply a contractual agreement between employer and employee.

 

[tusseltussel]

have not read the whole thread yet but here is my input.. i feel that wallmart has destroyed a lot of rural towns, when you think of your home town you think of your neighborhood and the town square not the strip mall up the road where the wallmart is... if i walk up the street to the town square what do i see buissness after buissness closed up for rent or just empty there is nothing on the town square anymore if you need something you are forced to go to wallmart the corner store to pick up bread and butter does not exist anymore in rural america its all walmart now every town around me is the same way nothing but empty buildings why is it like this because an opertunty to save a few bucks buying pruducts from diffrant countries from wallmart, they will evan give you a job too. i went there the other day, i needed some sun dried tomatoes i look at them and it says a product of turkey, i guess we dn't know how to dry tomatoes in the sun here... so used shipping containers pile up at docks accross america walmart has you cornerd what can you do they give you a job and low prices so screw old stan that had the corner store in town for 50 years close him down and all his suppliers and shop at wallmart enjoy the chemically processed sun dried tomatoes from turkey i will be in the parkinglot down the road selling my fresh organic tomatoes and enjoying the fruits of my labor and the smiles on ppls faces cause they picked me to be there farmer to get local fresh chemical free food and support thir country keep making things cheaper in other countries than walmart will be the only american job other than macdonalds if you think unemployment rates were bad now wait til the republicans get there greedy hands back in the game and ship the rest of our jobs to other countries and you will be sitting at the local wallmart waiting in line to fill out your application.....

NO FARMS NO FOOD NO WORK SAY NO TO WALMART

 

[jeff f]

, when you think of your home town you think of your neighborhood and the town square not the strip mall up the road where the wallmart is...

if you were living through the mid 1900's. if you lived in the mid 1800's you would think about all the barns, stables, hithcin posts etc. its all relative.

and those mom and pop grocery stores or whatever existed are being repopulated by different business.

my town used to have 6 jewelry stores in a 5 block downtown (my town is about 3000 population) which thrived. now there is 2. but there is a flower shop, a arts and craft place, a dentist.

when my children are as old as me they will be saying remember when we had XXX but it wont be 6 jewelry stores in 5 blocks.

who knows in 20 years we may not even have to leave the house to shop. and then my kids will be saying, "remember when we used to have a walmart up on the hill? those were the good ole days."

edit and your sun dried tomatoes is an excellent example. if you have found a niche for them in your area, thats the way all business starts, walmart or otherwise. think about when you were young, there were no "organic" stores. now there are.

 

[GrowRebel]

I avoid walmart as much as possible ... they caused other business to fold like rubbermaid ... I'm sure the video suggested by the other poster will explain their unfair business practices that cause businesses to close.
I try to shop at K-mart or a local stores rather than going to Walmart ... our mall is turning into a ghost town, and Walmart holds some of the blame ... the terrible economy is another reason too. This is a very depressed area ...
I think if you watch the video suggested you will change your mind about Wal mart ...

 

[jeff f]

I avoid walmart as much as possible ... they caused other business to fold like rubbermaid ... I'm sure the video suggested by the other poster will explain their unfair business practices that cause businesses to close.
I try to shop at K-mart or a local stores rather than going to Walmart ... our mall is turning into a ghost town, and Walmart holds some of the blame ... the terrible economy is another reason too. This is a very depressed area ...
I think if you watch the video suggested you will change your mind about Wal mart ...

not really interested in the video. i am interested in good prices for competetive products. they fit the bill.

when i was a kid levis jeans cost 25 bucks, mid 70's. we were very poor so we got 1 pair at the beginning of the school year.

i now buy them for 20 bucks at walmart. that alone has benefitted my family. not to mention the other things.

they also employed my brother for 5 years at close to 20 bucks an hour plus good benies.

thats all i need to know.