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1
Jesus. Fucking. Christ.

I have never set foot in a Walmart and I never, ever, ever will. Fuck them, indeed.
2
This is not news, Wal-Mart actually has management who guide employees in how to apply for government aid.
3
Oh, come on. 7 million years isn't so bad.
4
micro-housing, fast food, and if it ain't wal-mart screwing workers, try a Target or any other big box. welcome to our future.

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@1 - I've only entered one. And just to go piss. Fuck Walmart, indeed.
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What @2 said. I understand they actually help employees sign up for state healthcare and other aid.

Though I must admit I have heard similar stories about much less hateful institutions as well including head start and freedom works. You don't get to work for the summer, but we'll show you how to sign up for unemployment!
8
I was opposed to Walmart for a long time thanks to the way it would open up in rural areas, undercut existing stores, then raise prices after eliminating all the competition.

After a certain point, I gave up, feeling like it was a lost cause (and recognizing I had no where else to shop.)

Well, goodbye Walmart and hello Amazon! At least FedEX and the Post office pay a living wage.
9
The Walton Family is among the wealthiest in America. They can certainly afford to pay their employee's a decent wage.
10
I've shopped at a Walmart exactly once, when I was stranded in E WA in need of some emergency supplies. I grumbled and cursed every second of it because I so hated being in that position. But I do go to Target sometimes, or Fred Meyer, when it's time to stock up on paper towels and laundry soap and what have you. Is it really just as bad? I know it's bad, but I'm hoping it's less bad.
11
Is Walmart paying less than minimum wage?

The bigger issue here is not that Walmart is paying so little, but that the government does not require that workers be paid a living wage.
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11 Walmart can ruin even that, by hiring at less than full time, thereby sidestepping benefits.
13
I haven't set foot in Walmart in either 10 or 15 years (can't remember what the big box store was that I visited on that one camping trip). At this point I don't even think of it as a place to shop, it's just a big hunk of masonry taking up space for some reason on the highway out of town.
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Yes Republicans, these Walmart employees are the 47% you are complaining about. Hard working employees whose employers tell them to apply for Government aid, rather then pay them a living wage. God forbid you ask those "job creators" to pay taxes to pay for the benefits they are telling their employees to apply for.

Republicans, borrow and spend.
15
I will not even buy ammunition from the china supporting, government tit sucking slavers at Walmart.

I don't think I have even been in a walmart in at least a decade.
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@8 FedEx pays well, but FedEx Office does not pay its employees a living wage. For the record, and because I am still irked about that.
17
Is this National Old News Day? This and Paul's NSA post immediately below seem solidly based in the Shit Widely Reported Several Years Ago category. I see there's a new report, and all, so they've, what, recrunched the numbers?
18
We can change the world by just repeating facts. More numbers! More data! Keep saying shit everyone knows! This time it's sure to change something!

Also, maybe if we just make some individual choices not to shop there, that will finally change a thing we don't like!
19
Yay for using Reaganite/McGinnist Fake 80s racial stereotypes to shit on Walmart (which is almost a worthy enough cause).

There was never a such thing as 'welfare queens'. But by all means, use age old antiblack stereotypes created by the racist right and slithered into the modern liberal left to attack Wal mart.

Im sure those black women labeled as welfare queens as they work 2 jobs 50 hours a week dont mind if you use their negative portrayal to get your point across.
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@19 - It certainly is worthwhile to point out the wide discrepancy between free market claims, and the common practice of corporate welfare. Low prices for cheap crap and the Waltons are effectively subsidized by our taxes when their employees need public assistance to meet basic needs. It's not a stereotype, it's reality.
21
What's the big deal? You get a half-hour lunch break after 3.5 million years.
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@21 Thank you for making me choke on my coffee.
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@10 Fred Meyer employees are union, if that makes you feel better. They are represented by UFCW 21 in this area.

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