Even in places where they should be a great employer, they don't have enough people to stock the shelves or check people out.

Keep paying people shit wages and treating them like dirt, and you will find no one wanting to work for you. No one wanting to work for you means nothing on the shelf, no one to check you out, and customers going other places. Business 101.

way to go, Wally

May they continue to flounder or may they get an epiphany and realize that their workers and customers are a larger pool than the wealthy and well-connected.

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The assholes running it and other companies like it who dont want to pay a living wage is what is bad for america.

They run all the mom & pops stores out of business to sell inferior products.

the walmart business model. But it is the consumer that ran the Mom & Pop stores out of business. If they (the M&Ps) were actually providing superior products, the consumers chose cheap over quality.

It's almost a false choice given the circumstances.

And it's not even the cheapest place for some stuff. So if a family goes there as a one stop shop they don't necessarily even get the savings.

Because Walmart strategy was to undercut local prices until the local businesses were forced out.

It. Was. Deliberate.

But that is not what the other poster was saying ... he/she (I don't recall their gender) was saying that walmart surplanted M&Ps that had superior products by under cutting the M&Ps' prices and by offering inferior products. It is/was the consumer that chose low price over product quality.

what the company should atleast be doing plus they manage to get tax breaks when they build new walmarts aslo they are able to buy in bulk which many mom and pop stores just cant afford.
Now you cant really do much about the buying in bulk but things can be done about the tax breaks and the below poverty level wages they pay.

They refuse to pay decent wages, and many of their employees have to be on assistance. We subsidize their wages so the Walton fucks can get richer.

mentioned those wages already.

You said Walmart isn't bad for America, it is the people who run it and their shit wages. That IS Walmart- you cannot separate them from their policies.

way are what is bad. Walmarts just name they stick on the store front after all its not a real person.

which isnt a real person rather than the real people who are actually making the decisions? I mean I dont know about you but I dont agree with citizens united because I dont believe a company is a person.

but they are, unfortunately for us, considered as such by the govt.
So until the day comes when Citizens United is reversed, I will continue to see the predatory corporations and the people that run them as one.

can no longer afford to shop at Walmart including the people Walmart employs.

Henry Ford was correct about paying people enough to buy his cars - such a shame corporate behemoths today do not see the wisdom of his words.

to shop elsewhere.

The two or three times I've done price comparisons, my local grocery store chain comes out well ahead of WalMart. Unfortunately, too many people believe the hype and don't even go into other stores.

And fresh produce.

I shop Goodwill for high quality clothes at a fraction of the cost. Craig's list for used higher priced items like kitchen ware, tools, appliances etc ( and Goodwill for those too).

I haven't gone to a Target or Wal-Mart in years.

fresh cut meats. And the locals have a couple of actual butchers to boot. I buy boxed and canned goods from wally and the rest from local.

The only thing I purchase at walmart is trinket stuff. I've found my local (unionized) grocery beat's walmart in the meat, fish and produce pricing.

the brown colored pork from smithfield farms, I just can't bring myself to buy.

I prefer fresh cut too, be it pork or beef.

Even though they're essentially the same place, they're not nearly as awful as Walmart (also they're the hometown team here in Minneapolis, so I always root for them just a little)

I have done the same with the same result. Walmart is not "the low price leader" on everything. At this point they actually are in competition with other stores and often don't win.

And a new giant will rise.

Probably Amazon.

People will work in giant warehouses rather than giant supercenters.

Walmart, already fearful of them, removed Kindles from their stores.

Another one of their cost cutting measures has backfired.

Good.

of my pay, and sometimes I was just too broke not to use them. But usually when I went there it was hard to find a clerk, and when I did they usually didn't know anything about the products on the shelves. Understaffed, undertrained, and yes! when compared to other stores they are NOT the lowest prices. Just a few more reasons to boycott them.

Oh, and P.S., the company that was giving us the Walmart gift cards (if we hit certain production goals we were then put into a raffle to win one of those little $5-10 cards) just laid us all off three weeks ago, so I don't need to even have to deal with those damn cards anymore. Awesome!

I'm so sorry to read that. I was afraid you were going to say that at the end of your post. sigh. I hope you find something soon or have already. Good Luck! You deserve some good karma and good luck right now.

peace.

I guess they still both missing.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-15/wal-mart-executives-sweat-slow-february-start-in-e-mails.html

maintain for very long.

by voluntarily increasing their worker's wages and treating their employee fairly. It really comes down to the public perceiving Walmart owners as greedy. We are growing weary of greed. And rightly so.

They would not have to spend a dime on advertizing. All the news outlets would love to yap about it and discuss pro and con for hours on end for weeks. All the money they save on print and TV advertizing could go into the employees' benefits and salary. You should go into marketing! Plus the employees would spend the extra money at Walmart, they could write it all off if taxes. Probably would not cost them a dime really. If that happens, we know the corporate schmucks read DU!

My favorite slogan is "Rich people are stupid." Walmart heirs and the idiot AOL CEO are prime examples for my slogan.

No reason to give that place any self-styled hegemony by not thinking there are other options. That, and the "don't feed the monster" angle as well.

I'm amazed though by how many people I know seem to almost depend on that store: They act like there's no other retail option out there whatsoever. I don't think it's so much out of loyalty as much as it is intertia.

look for the union label really meant something. and ibew contractor gets more than a scab because it means something to be an ibew contractor.

consumers are workers and if they don't support other workers with their dollars, why should a ceo bargain with that union? if they ceo knows his goods are worth less without that union label, they will bargain.

boycotts do work. it is great to see these leviathans subject to a leviathan consumer force.

For your inspiring IBEW union talk.

We used to do the bulk of our grocery shopping at WalMart. Now, thanks to a change in diet, we shop primarily at a regional chain that offers a good selection of local and organic foods, a unionized grocery, and a locally owned co-op grocery. We do go to WalMart for a few items that we can find nowhere else, mostly non-food items, but if we didn't have to, we wouldn't.

My dad knew Sam Walton from high school days, and he was not at all like his greedy descendants. I think he would be appalled at what they have turned his legacy into. I met him once when he visited the new store in the town where I lived, and he was very down to earth. I think he was a sharp businessman but not a greedy a**hole. He's probably turning over in his grave.

I am Costco all the way.

You can get better prices and selections at other stores or online now if you can find the right sales.

Yes, some prices are more expensive than Walmart, BUT they have a lot of buy one, get one free, so it probably works out to the same.

My biggest grip is produce. Publix seems to ship veggies and fruits from foreign countries, whereas Walmart does sell local Florida produce.

consistently cheaper on tuna and pasta even without bogo deals. I'm lucky there's a locally owned produce store and a meat market at the entrance to the walmart plaza by me, so they get my business for those items and everything else I get from Publix. Not to mention Publix has really good fried chicken.

kinda like it's "good ol' USA," and we're going to be hiring thousands of workers....blah, blah, blah, I've turned it off a couple of times now. Anyone else see it??

I won't buy a alt substitute either so they are sadly mistaken if they think "oh they will just buy some other brand".

They just keep the shelf bare. That's a great business practice, a refrigerator that has only ten gallons of milk in it, an egg case with about three cartons and all of them broken, and shelf space in the pet food aisle that is bare.

You think I'm kidding?

The barebones staff can't keep up with the freight.

They assigned me Walmart drug coverage when I first achieved old age. I phoned and told them to change it because there was no way I'd do business with Walmart. Was told they hear that a lot.

raising the minimum wage. Wait for it.

-Laelth

Once.

Found out I could buy locally, from a locally owned firm, less expensively. Ok, granted, only by $5. That was about 8 years ago. Haven't been inside since. Most of the cars/trucks/etc. in their lot have military stickers on them (local military tagging). I guess it's what they know?

I have never stepped foot in a Walmart. I don't support their business model.