Walmart is taking over the world

[Vfast]

OH YES..THEY ARE
http://www.organicconsumers.org/corp/walmart051502.cfm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10838942/

 

[Tazzy]

RE: WALWART IS TAKING OVER THE WORLD

Well i have to say that is something i think we all know LOL :lol

 

[lemon]

RE: WALWART IS TAKING OVER THE WORLD

alice did it. :dunno

 

[Hurt911gen]

RE: WALWART IS TAKING OVER THE WORLD

nobody forces people to work there you know. and if theyd to take it away we'd lose money. i think. anyways waiting until 2006 nfl season.

 

[mdvaldosta]

RE: WALWART IS TAKING OVER THE WORLD

Wal-Mart is in fact rabidly anti-union, deploying teams of union-busters
from Bentonville to any spot where there's a whisper of organizing activity.
"While unions might be appropriate for other companies, they have no place
at Wal-Mart," a spokeswoman told a Texas Observer reporter who was covering
an NLRB hearing on the company's manhandling of 11 meat-cutters who worked
at a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Jacksonville, Texas.


These derring-do employees were sick of working harder and longer for the
same low pay. "We signed [union] cards, and all hell broke loose," says
Sidney Smith, one of the Jacksonville meat-cutters who established the
first-ever Wal-Mart union in the U.S., voting in February 2000 to join the
United Food and Commercial Workers. Eleven days later, Wal-Mart announced
that it was closing the meat-cutting departments in all of its stores and
would henceforth buy prepackaged meat elsewhere.

But the repressive company didn't stop there. As the Observer reports:
"Smith was fired for theft, after a manager agreed to let him buy a box of
overripe bananas for 50 cents, Smith ate one banana before paying for the
box, and was judged to have stolen that banana."

 

[redsMULLT1]

RE: WALWART IS TAKING OVER THE WORLD

Damn thats crazy shit. I heard the Teamsters were looking into unionizing Mal-Wart.. and some of the trucking industry.

 

[Vfast]

THAT'S WALMART 4 YA

 

[tonytroll]

I was in a walmart the other day. the place was filthy.. the floors needed to be mopped, trash was all over the place. gum was stuck to the carpet. I went to the pisser and you got it piss was all over the floor, the trash can was flowing over.. fuckng pig stye..
I told the manager his store looked like shit. What a poor dumbass, all he could do was walk off with his tail between his legs.

God Bless the United States of Generica,

 

[Vfast]

but that manager was laughing to the bank with his 5-6 fiqure bonus

 

[tonytroll]

They don't make that much? Do They?

 

[Nacil Buperetov]

I'm so sick of this anti-corporate bullshite.

Wal-Mart keeps a lousy 3.6% for itself in profits, while employee costs are over 25%.

Any attempt at unionization or higher wages would bankrupt the company in a matter of days.

Hell, no one is forced to buy from Walmart, and no one is forced to work for them.

It's not like those "mom and pop" stores they "drove out" gave better wages, and they sure as hell didn't give them better healthcare.

Walmart is no more ruthless than any other business, corporate or otherwise.

And the worst bitching of all is the notion that their low wages are a drain to taxpayers who have to cover the price of their welfare and medicaid. Any idea what walmart pay into social security, welfare, and medicare/medicaid? A hell of alot.

If the American people want Walmart out, they can stop shopping there tomarrow.

 

[same ole shit]

Re: RE: Walmart is taking over the world

I'm so sick of this anti-corporate bullshite.

Wal-Mart keeps a lousy 3.6% for itself in profits, while employee costs are over 25%.

Any attempt at unionization or higher wages would bankrupt the company in a matter of days.

Hell, no one is forced to buy from Walmart, and no one is forced to work for them.

It's not like those "mom and pop" stores they "drove out" gave better wages, and they sure as hell didn't give them better healthcare.

Walmart is no more ruthless than any other business, corporate or otherwise.

And the worst bitching of all is the notion that their low wages are a drain to taxpayers who have to cover the price of their welfare and medicaid. Any idea what walmart pay into social security, welfare, and medicare/medicaid? A hell of alot.

If the American people want Walmart out, they can stop shopping there tomarrow.

only as much as the employee, it's the law..as for keeping the 3.6% is bullshit.......walmart only cares for being the biggest company not about it's customers like a family operation would

 

[Nacil Buperetov]

Nope, 3.6% - the average for a retail store is 3.7%.

And small businesses care about making money, just like anyone else.

I don't really care weather a company cares about anyone or anything. As long as they obey the laws and don't manipulate the gov't, fine by me.

And the point I'm making about the payouts to medicare and the such is, they produce more than the employees take.

Walmart workers, on average, make $8.23 an hour. That's alot more than your typical hometown proud store will pay.

The only way walmart could pay more is if they charged more, and the low prices are what keeps people buying "Larry the Cable Guy" merchandise.

If you work at Walmart, you probabaly don't have any better options in life.

The way I see it, Walmart gives low end workers an option they didn't have before.

A Walmart employee can afford Walmart merchandise - I think that's a fair deal.

 

[Haus]

i used to work at walmart but i was 16 and thats right after i dropped out of school. i was only there for like 3 months. i dint like working there but i like the people i worked with until we got a new manager in my area and i dint like her and i quit one day

 

[same ole shit]

Re: RE: Walmart is taking over the world

Nope, 3.6% - the average for a retail store is 3.7%.

And small businesses care about making money, just like anyone else.

I don't really care weather a company cares about anyone or anything. As long as they obey the laws and don't manipulate the gov't, fine by me.

And the point I'm making about the payouts to medicare and the such is, they produce more than the employees take.

Walmart workers, on average, make $8.23 an hour. That's alot more than your typical hometown proud store will pay.

The only way walmart could pay more is if they charged more, and the low prices are what keeps people buying "Larry the Cable Guy" merchandise.

If you work at Walmart, you probabaly don't have any better options in life.

The way I see it, Walmart gives low end workers an option they didn't have before.

A Walmart employee can afford Walmart merchandise - I think that's a fair deal.

I agree with most of your statement.....but what wal-mart does is bust up the community to a point....with those small towns and all they do is re-employ those out of work...my wife worked pt work them for 5 years...my mom worked for sam's before they were SAM'S*L*....thier profits not on paper are in the 20-25% at least..though nothing wrong will making money but at what cost,I know they are not the only ones, but are one of the only one's who fight thier customer to be where thiere not wanted....big bus.. runs this country not us the people..

 

[Sim]

What you are failing to realize is that the profits are often turned right around into more purchases of items, furthering their cause, while earning just a little bit more for the company. So yes, the small percentage is quite possible.

With all that crap out of the way...

Austin has a motto: Keep Austin Weird
This is something we all pitch in to do by shopping at the smaller shops and local businesses, and not allowing big bad brother corporation to have all of what we love. It isn't the big businesses that are ruining small towns...it's the people in them who are not doing their part to keep the small businesses alive.

Wal-Mart is seen as a convenience, and if people would merely take a little more time out to go to several different places to obtain everything on their lists, it wouldn't be as large and powerful as it seems to be now. A company is only as successful as its patrons, and should they choose to shop at one store, rather than four, then it is their faults, and not that of the bigger business.

Americans are all about rushing around to do this and that, and quite often we forget to stop and smell the roses, and once the roses are gone, we bitch about it, rather than taking the time to plant more...

 

[TheOriginalJames]

Re: RE: Walmart is taking over the world

What you are failing to realize is that the profits are often turned right around into more purchases of items, furthering their cause, while earning just a little bit more for the company. So yes, the small percentage is quite possible.

With all that crap out of the way...

Austin has a motto: Keep Austin Weird
This is something we all pitch in to do by shopping at the smaller shops and local businesses, and not allowing big bad brother corporation to have all of what we love. It isn't the big businesses that are ruining small towns...it's the people in them who are not doing their part to keep the small businesses alive.

Wal-Mart is seen as a convenience, and if people would merely take a little more time out to go to several different places to obtain everything on their lists, it wouldn't be as large and powerful as it seems to be now. A company is only as successful as its patrons, and should they choose to shop at one store, rather than four, then it is their faults, and not that of the bigger business.

Americans are all about rushing around to do this and that, and quite often we forget to stop and smell the roses, and once the roses are gone, we bitch about it, rather than taking the time to plant more...

:agree

Go Tiffani :cheer

 

[same ole shit]

Re: RE: Walmart is taking over the world

What you are failing to realize is that the profits are often turned right around into more purchases of items, furthering their cause, while earning just a little bit more for the company. So yes, the small percentage is quite possible.

With all that crap out of the way...

Austin has a motto: Keep Austin Weird
This is something we all pitch in to do by shopping at the smaller shops and local businesses, and not allowing big bad brother corporation to have all of what we love. It isn't the big businesses that are ruining small towns...it's the people in them who are not doing their part to keep the small businesses alive.

Wal-Mart is seen as a convenience, and if people would merely take a little more time out to go to several different places to obtain everything on their lists, it wouldn't be as large and powerful as it seems to be now. A company is only as successful as its patrons, and should they choose to shop at one store, rather than four, then it is their faults, and not that of the bigger business.

Americans are all about rushing around to do this and that, and quite often we forget to stop and smell the roses, and once the roses are gone, we bitch about it, rather than taking the time to plant more...

to add..we(americans) bitch about everthing mainly because we can't do anything about it....your voice isn't herd like it was meant to back in the day....walmart invests in other companies like some of the sisters' have that resale stuff that didn't sell the first time...any big company can hide millions of profits...it's build into the system...when china really gets rolling look out and to think we3 taught them :rofl ....if you really look around you can find price as cheap or cheaper than walmalt but at what price..gas, your time,etc.....

 

[Mrs Behavin]

I hate Wal Mart

 

[hhayes]

i only like wal mart at odd hours in the night or early morning, which i am never awake let alone out and about at those hours anymore or i am at work so walmart doesn't get too much business from me but i do go there when i need to shop, at least for most things