man I wasted $3 to watch that bull@!#$.
If you hate the company so damn much and the health plan it has, then quit the @!#$ job, no one is making you work there.
As for all these "victories" of towns that fought a proposed Wal Mart. Those people are all morons, they threw away millions of dollars of revenue, and I bet altogether over 10,000 jobs.
But hey they people they interviewed that were fighting, seemed to have really nice houses and all.
So in a sense they are doing the same thing they say Wal Mart is doing. Not giving a @!#$ about anyone but yourself.
What about the people that dont mind working at Wal Mart for $8 as a nice after school, or get through college job?
They had some black lady on there with like 2 kids saying Wal Mart doesnt pay enough to support her and her kids, no @!#$ sherlock. Ever of freaking college lady?????!!!!! Wal mart jobs arent made for people to support a family, they are simply jobs till college is done then move on with life and have a career.
You dont like Wal Mart, shop the hell some place else then.
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Rob S wrote: Ever of freaking college lady?????!!!!!
Ever
HEAR of Colleg yourself?
and yes wal mart is bawlz...
but its a job...
btw
i have no clue what your talkin about
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Rob S wrote: Ever of freaking college lady?????!!!!!
Ever
HEAR of Colleg yourself?
and yes wal mart is bawlz...
but its a job...
btw
i have no clue what your talkin about
Go rent this bull@!#$ movie "The High Cost of Low Prices" some dumbass put the thing together, really is totall bull@!#$.
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ohhhhhh
i don't rent movies..
but thanks for the heads up
hmm never herd of it, but i guess it sucks
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i obviously didn't go
Yeah well as soon as I finish college later this year, I'll be making more next year than you will.
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My god fella, calm the @!#$ down.
Theres lots of opportunities in retail. Its not just a side job.
My boss at Target makes well over 60K/year, and he has a nice Corvette too.
The bosses that work under him start out making 40K/year.
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It's an anti-WalMart, pro-union film. I worked at WalMart for 4 years and my boyfriend has worked there for 6. While both of us were employed there, we purchased a 3 bedroom, 2 bath house on our own. It's not as bad of a place to work as everyone says it is, and it pays a hell of a lot better than some of the other retail jobs out there. Unions just have their panties in a bunch b/c WalMart is anti-union (as well they should be), and the unions are missing out on serious revenue b/c of that. (How many millions of dollars in union dues would WM associates pay every month? Several.)
Amen, Rob S.
And you make how much?
Seriously, it's a pyramid scheme where you work hard, and a lot more people get paid for it.
Transeat In Exemplum: Let this stand as the example.
GAM (The Kilted One) wrote:And you make how much?
Seriously, it's a pyramid scheme where you work hard, and a lot more people get paid for it.
in that case all corporations are a pyramid scheme. I dont like retail because of the stress and competition but walmart is very easy to move up in. you can become a manager in a shorter period of time compared to most places. im not saying walmart is the best place to work for. its better than nothing though and the training is there. there is a walmart almost anywhere. Relocating it not a problemm.
Unions today are a joke. They increase the wage for their workers but what about the people that arent in the unions? they wind up getting their hours cut to compensate the higher pay rate for union workers WHICH also means the company wont hire more workers thus increasing the unemployment rate.
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Unions have their place and because of overly fastidious bargaining, they're getting a bad name.
Anyhow, Procold: I'll explain it.
Your average Walmart employee isn't my concern...
A walmart opens in an area where there are smaller shops that fill the same needs or, they take up an anchor store in mall. It promptly sucks up all those shop's businesses or smaller businesses in the store, and thereby, it sucks in some of the jobs that are displaced. By economy of scale, they can afford to way undercut the price a smaller competitor. Once all the competitors are out of business, the owners of that Walmart franchise either leverage their economic stance by threatening to leave the area, thereby leaving a very large hole in the local economy to an outside zone that has lower taxes or more favourable zoning bylaws, or they get a sweetheart deal on rent etc. that will stave off the inevitable for 2-3 years.
Either way, once they uproot, those that can't get to the new Walmart (either Customers or employees) are basically shafted... You dont have the smaller shops to go to, and you don't have the bigger ones to go to either. You are basically screwed if you used to rely on the place, and do not have transportation to get there. It's fine and dandy if you live in a city, but, in outlying areas, you're screwed, chewed and barbequed.
Walmart, Target, big box stores are contributing to the decline and sprawl of cities.
Transeat In Exemplum: Let this stand as the example.
People go to Wal-Mart because it is more conveinent than going to five or six mom and pop shops. Would you rather go to the hardware store and buy a hammer go to the grocery store for food, then go buy clothes at a different shop. Or you can choose to do it all at once.
There is a Wal Mart not four miles from my house everything I need is there, food, clothes, CDs, its really a lot better than five or six shops.
It isnt Wal Marts fault it is so big. People obviously think the same way I do and thats how its gets so big. You build something people like, people will come.
The days of the mom and pop shops are now done. Some people are saddened and all by I'm sorry life is a bunch of tough @!#$ and thats exactly what it is for them.
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My problem with Wal-mart is their @!#$ty ass healthcare and vicious competitive practices.
I shop at Target, at least there I don't have to wait in line for 2 hours.
-Chris
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SCREW WALMART
they just f'ed up my sunfire by not not puttin the oil filter on all the way. manager fired the old man who did it right in font of everyone
last time i go there.
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LMFAO.........
I'm doing a research paper on "Is Wal-Mart Good for America" RIGHT NOW. This is awesome. Keep the ranting up, looks like I can grab some quotes off of here!
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GAM, the US economy has changed so much since you had all these other types of smaller stores around. We are evidently evolving out of a manufacturing economy. The point is walmart (and other companies) was smart enough to take advantage of trade in other manufacturing economies (like china) and are able to compete with lower prices.
But what is it really over quantity or quality? generally, people bargain for lower prices and firms have to compete. so lets blame walmart for having low prices and killing the competition in small town. yeh right. whose fault is it really?
ok since we have lower prices and products with greater consumer demand with walmart in the area , more people will shop. which means walmart would need more workers and they will most likely be getting more hours than they did with the little town store. now there is more tax revenue at the state and local goverments (as well as federal taxation) . with the state and local revenue you can provide greater amount of public goods. for example, public transportation to walmart.
Let me tell you a little story. i moved up near gloversville NY. the name speaks for itself. its a town that used to make gloves. VERY BIG leather industry during WW1 and WW2. 1 out of every 3 pair of gloves in the world were from this area in NY. They were not effected by the great depression because of this. Now when vinyl came out. there was no use for leather. so the leather industry decreased. so these vynil companies wanted to come in and the people said no. then 7up wanted to come in and they said no. where are the jobs? there are none. they didnt move in the same direction as our economy was going. now if you ever visit here its soooo depressing. welfare is so high and the STD rate is the highest in NY.
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Wal-Mart saves me money and provides jobs. They don't pay the best, but neither do other stores like it. The Wal-Mart near me also hires people who can't get a job anywhere else, and I think that's great. You can find lots of moms with 2 kids that can't support their kids on what they make at many other types of jobs also. The wage matches the job, would it be fair to pay them 20 bucks an hour to bag your groceries?
You can't outrun the radio.
Wal-Mart has its place.
Me personaly, becuase I've grown up in a small town, I prefer the Mom-Pop shops. Its a much more personal feeling, and that is what I prefer. Now if you live in a larger city (20,000) you usually don't have that feeling. So people don't give a @!#$, they want the best deal.
And wanting to save money, thats fine, I'm all for it. But when they start almost having almost complete control over every part of production, thats BS. I'm sorry, but no one has that right to control it all. The US was more than happy to break up Standard Oil, why Wal-Mart?
I've never been a big fan of Wal-Mart. IMO, the products are of a lower quality, so I'll spend more to buy less often. Now that's just my impression of Wal-Mart. And I think a lot of the opinions are based on not only whether or not you've shoped there when you are younger, but also your parents jobs as well.
I'll take mom and pop over the big box stores any day.
walmart is the plague of america... why?
I spent 3 weeks in my business classes learning why.. gam explained some...
walmart is a big name no doubt.. and companies want in their stores.. so walmart MAKES the prices and if the company says no walmart leaves.. but walmart drives the price they want so far below the companies BE price (break even) it drives the companies prices in other stores up... therefor forcing people to buy that companies products at walmart and eventually putting them out of business... want an example...
search RUBBERMAID...
walmart outsources ALL their manufacturing to china and japan and other countries costing this country THOUSANDS of good paying, benefit filled jobs only to replace a fraction with low wage, no benefit part time and some full time jobs that are garbage....
Walmart is a GIANT bully of the American economy.. and because Americans are so greedy and selfish they will destroy their own country before any other foreign force does, by decimating all jobs in this country so they can save those extra few bucks at a walmart who bullies american companies or outsourcing...
you say well those companies can sell elsewhere? they cant.. walmart dominates that market and forces those companies to finally fall for walmart and solely depend on walmart to make them money, only to in turn force said company into downsizing... and/or outsourcing themselves...
not my fault your a cheap lazy bastard...
I spend that extra few bucks and stay AWAY from walmart...
thanks!
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I don't mind wal-mart.. It's the morons that shop there and idiotic employees that I can't stand..
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