Comments on: Walmart Rant

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:55:00 +0000

watch the walmart movie (wal-mart: the high cost of low price) and tell me this is true capitalism. It’s a dictatorship with the walton family at the helm and the govt in their pocket!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:15:00 +0000

>If you don’t like this, don’t shop there or work there.<

Competing with slaves makes you a slave.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:42:00 +0000

>"Walmart sucks because it doesn't pay its employees $30/hr and give them a ferrari for christmas."<

You are setting up a straw man. No one I know has asked for Wal-Mart employees to receive these things.

In the 1970s, GM was the biggest employer in the US. If you were an employee at GM, you got good pay, benefits, and vacation time.

Now, Wal-Mart is America's biggest employer. If you work for Wal-Mart, you are a part-time employee earning low pay, no benefits, paid hourly with no vacation time.

Wal-Mart recently implemented an on-call policy, where employees were supposed to wait around for Wal-Mart to call them to come in.

A large percentage of Wal-Mart employees qualify for state assistance, so Wal-Mart's low wages drain your tax dollars. Before you argue about cutting benefits further, you want to cut off that single working mother of three?

Speaking of women, at Wal-Mart, 72% of the workforce and only 10% of managers are women.

I believe these are legitimate complaints and are not pleas for Ferraris.

By: mOOm

mOOm — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:41:00 +0000

Those jobs ain’t coming back no matter what happens to the Dollar…

By: Kira

Kira — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:49:00 +0000

I also recall reading that Wal-Mart singlehandedly REDUCED inflation last year by something like 1.5% due to keeping costs lower. The people who complain the most about Wal-Mart are the ones who can afford to shop elsewhere, and who can get a job somewhere else too. If you need either one of those things, you won’t want Wal-Mart to leave.