Long before there was negative press about how rotten they treat their employees, there was a scandal involving a certain "Made in America" promotion that was covered by the media. Turns out, nothing on the racks that had "Made in America" signs all over them was actually "Made in America". There was also an undercover reporter posing as a buyer that went to Indonesia, or wherever clothes were being made then, and secretly filmed the owner of a factory telling him he could put a label of origin on the products from whatever country he wanted. There were child laborers living upstairs in the factory. This was right after the Kathie Lee Gifford thing, also.

Dems need to push hard this year for raising minimum wage and nutritional assistance!

by laying off a lot of employees

Making the ones that stay work harder make some work split shifts

Cut benefits to the bone (no paid vacations etc)

Do away with employee discounts

Make some work off the clock for a few more minutes a day (No Union to stop this practice)

The 1% Bought Congress to get for themselves--aka: Wealth Extraction from the 99%

Walmart ought to be happy as Hell--didn't they buy a couple of 'em?
Isn't this exactly what Wall Street et al Wanted? Wasn't Austerity the Marching Orders for Both Party's?
(I need that sarcasm button)

The salesman that sold them Republican politicians promising liberal nutritional assistance - should be promoted to head of Commerce.

You can roam the vast reaches of its nether regions and find no clerks on duty of whom a question might be asked. I'm talking about hundreds of square feet with nary an employee to be found. The store shelves take months to get restocked on certain items. The other day I found some Great Value (Walmart house brand) Mexican salsa on the shelf that was four years past its expiration date.

The only good thing I can say is that the prices on many items are one-fourth what they are at Walgreen's. Walgreen's is the rip-off joint of all rip-off joints. Their prices on everything are astronomically high.

someone stealing from Walmart. Sometimes they get caught, sometimes they assault the security person (often with the very merchandise they are stealing), and run away.

I used to live in New England and the Walmart was a disaster. Things would be out of stock for months. I moved out west and the local store was much better.

I can't figure out how to respond to this.

money in their system for a few days each week to play with.

I hate the lighting. I hate the atmosphere. I hate walking 5 miles to find a certain item and then walking another 2 to find something else. I hate not having a clerk to help if I need one and I hate the entire Walmart experience. But, there's not much choice in my small town. The citizens are held captive and Main Street is dried up. I try to avoid Walmart as much as possible. Walmart is not a pleasant shopping experience.

If you don't shop at Wal-Mart, expect to spend money on gas driving an hour back and forth.

But one of our regional grocery chains managed to stay in business and expand, despite Wal-Mart selling cheap crappy food.

Food City actually opened another store here, after Wal-Mart opened their Super store. They are also carrying some of my friends' locally grown foods. I do all my grocery shopping there just because I hate Wal-Mart so much and I love their gas bucks.

allotments? It could only help their business. But, maybe greed is so great in them that they didn't want "tax increases"?

Until that changes and they start treating their employees better with better hours and a higher wage the company will continue to suffer and it will continue to decline like Kmart has.

The food stamp cut last November was about 5% and Walmart claims 20% of their business is with these stamps.

Five percent of 20 percent is not enough to make such claims truthfully.