"So how much DO Walmart workers make?" "Well, some of them make 12.40 an hour, and I won't mention that that comes out to only $25k, and I also won't dispute your claim that the average wage is 15.5k a year"
WalMart isn't just anti-employee, they're anti-everybody-who-doesn't-have-the-last-name-of-Wall. What they do to their own employees is just symptomatic of how they treat everyone in their supply-chain.
When I worked for a local dairy company, and our sales staff went in for their first meeting in Bentonville with the WalMart National Purchasing Rep, they actually insisted we sell our products to them at BELOW manufacturing costs, using the logic that we would make up the loss because of all the additional volume, oh, and if it's really that big of a deal, you can just upcharge all your other customers for the difference.
That was their attitude: "we're so big we can not only fuck YOU in the ass, we can make you fuck all your other customers in the ass as well."
That doesn't explain why other retailers manage to pay their employees better and still offer cheap goods. Aside from stuff specifically on sale*, Wal-Mart's prices aren't that great compared to its competitors, probably because, in many part of the country, Wal-Mart has no competitors.
*And the whole point of sales is to draw people in and get them to buy mostly full-price products. Americans aren't getting as good a deal as they assume at Wal-Mart, but it's also my experience that Americans are extremely penny wise, pound foolish.
@6 Wal Mart can do that right now AND pay a decent living wage for its employees. You & the other apologists are always forgetting the third quality: profit. American corporations these days want a *much* higher profit margin than in the past. It's not that they can't have their profit, low prices, and pay decent wages. They want HUGE profit, pure & simple. If they could get it by killing their workers & selling the meat, they would. They don't because it's not as profitable as their current model.
How did this guy get to be a senior VP of such a large company? I thought mastery of an on-camera smarmy, slimy smile was part of the job requirement. Clearly, this guy doesn't posses one.
This spokesperson looks like a rabbit frozen by the headlights of an oncoming car. Almost as bad, his clothes and his hair look sloppy. His language is teen-aged ("Black Friday is going to be awesome.") In short, the stink of failure clings to him.
I worked for Wally when I was a teenager. Since I was female I was payed as a cashier. Keep in mind that I would sometimes be assigned to stock (which pays more), but still be paid a cashiers wage. And I'd forgotten all the horrible anti-union crap. I think I was even required to sign something that stated I wouldn't participate in any unions, which hardly seems legal since I was a minor. Glad those days are behind me!
I warmed forthem back in the eighties, when the stores actually closed at nine p.m. We would stay until midnight or one a.m. making sure the store was clean and ready to open in the morning. Before the floor staff could leave, we would have to get in a line and file past the managers. The women were required to let the managers inspect the contents of their purses, and the men were required to turn their pockets inside out. The message from management was, essentially, "We know you must be stealing, because you couldn't possibly make an honest living on what we pay you."
@14 Listen to the way anyone actually says compound words like walkout, workout, etc that are used as verbs and nouns. In my experience, the verb form is always pronounced as two separate words, while the noun is one word. It drives me nuts to see someone write "I'm gonna go workout now," because no one I know says it that way.
Face it, if they can profit from the destruction of America, the Bankers will enjoy doing so. They have no patriotism and no loyalty to America.
I just got back from Wal*Mart and was there last night as well.
No sign of anything except a lot of people shopping like mad.
When I worked for a local dairy company, and our sales staff went in for their first meeting in Bentonville with the WalMart National Purchasing Rep, they actually insisted we sell our products to them at BELOW manufacturing costs, using the logic that we would make up the loss because of all the additional volume, oh, and if it's really that big of a deal, you can just upcharge all your other customers for the difference.
That was their attitude: "we're so big we can not only fuck YOU in the ass, we can make you fuck all your other customers in the ass as well."
That doesn't explain why other retailers manage to pay their employees better and still offer cheap goods. Aside from stuff specifically on sale*, Wal-Mart's prices aren't that great compared to its competitors, probably because, in many part of the country, Wal-Mart has no competitors.
*And the whole point of sales is to draw people in and get them to buy mostly full-price products. Americans aren't getting as good a deal as they assume at Wal-Mart, but it's also my experience that Americans are extremely penny wise, pound foolish.
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