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    Hallelujah Hialeah Florida. Workers finally got fed up and walked out after a new wave of restrictive rules. Check it out www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15305178

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    Quote Originally Posted by Optimist
    Hallelujah Hialeah Florida. Workers finally got fed up and walked out after a new wave of restrictive rules. Check it out www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15305178
    The only reason Wal-Mart can do what it does is that hordes of Americans shop there every day. As long as the consumers don't give a damn how their store of choice treats it's employees, Wal-Mart will do what it wants.

    I never shop there.

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    YEAH!

    Amusingly, my local Wal-Mart (back home, in California) is being battled by the city.....it's in an aspirant "Yuppie Enclave" and the store attracts "unsavory types" to a nice part of town....Aside from blitzing local small businesses.

    I miss Target (closest one here 100 miles away)....Target employees always looked happy to me....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Prester_John
    The only reason Wal-Mart can do what it does is that hordes of Americans shop there every day. As long as the consumers don't give a damn how their store of choice treats it's employees, Wal-Mart will do what it wants.

    I never shop there.
    AMEN. I refuse to shop there as well.

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    Someone in my family works for walmart, I know all to well what happeneds and how much it's bullshit. Something needs to be done about how the treat there employees, but if it was not for walmart alot of people would not make it week to week. I shop there everyweek and I know people who buy something there almost every single day. When you only make $30,000 a year for a family of 4, walmart is where you have to shop, they cant afford to shop anywhere else.
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    ^^^Yeah, me too. There weren't Walmarts in Jersey until a year ago. I visited my Dad down south and was stunned by the low prices. I was also stunned by my aunt's demeanor since she started working there. She says they suck and she's a go getter. You gotta be reeeeeally restrictive and abusive to piss her off.

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    There is nothing THAT BAD about Wal-mart aside from the fact that they are constantly out to screw their employees...their vendors...and anyone else so the owners can pocket as much money as possible. Oh, wait...yeah, that's all business owners.

    I'll spend a little more and go shop someplace that treats their people and their community better. Fuck Wal-Mart, Sam's Club and any other chain owned by them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by VenusGoddess
    There is nothing THAT BAD about Wal-mart aside from the fact that they are constantly out to screw their employees...their vendors...and anyone else so the owners can pocket as much money as possible. Oh, wait...yeah, that's all business owners.

    I'll spend a little more and go shop someplace that treats their people and their community better. Fuck Wal-Mart, Sam's Club and any other chain owned by them.
    Not all business owners! I pay my people between $50 to $80 an hour. Granted they are not moving plywood around but they get most of the revenue from their billings, unlike IBM Global Services that charges $300/Hr for a $40/hr fresh college graduate.

    I also think this says a lot too:

    The demonstration may not have happened if not for the tight-knit nature ...

    These days people are put in competition against each other. I remember my minimum wage days and hearing about how "so and so shouldn't get those hours" and the back stabbing to try and get more hours and if things were looking to calm in the ranks - cut hours and hire more part timers!


    Perhaps they will be a showcase to the value of a union. (I think unions assume people know what they are good for but I think they need to do a lot of popular education.)

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    & Honestly, Wal-Mart's pricing isn't so fabulous anymore. If I bargain-shopped back home in overpriced Northern California, I could get everything I needed without stepping foot in Wal-Mart. Plus their "vendor scheme" (only stocking items that "move") makes it so they don't carry specialty items, like Instead Softcups.
    Not all businesses mistreat employees. Wal-Mart is just too big for its own (or anyone's) good.

    PS I'm actually excited that KMart & Sears are merging! Sears is an American institution.

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    My God, so an employee led revolt is what it takes to get wal-mart to listen to them. They should do that more often, preferably on a nationwide level.


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    I agree with alot of the employ complatiants but there is one thing I don't get working at wal mart is a crap job why do people expect so much from being as cashier at wal mart these jobs in retail are commonly low paid jobs I am not sure what all the hoopla is about. Yes i know thats insentive but if they hate there job they should look elsewhere. Please don't flame i have a habit of seeing things cut and dry like that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Optimist
    ^^^Yeah, me too.
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    I used to work at walmart. They paid a dollar and a half more than EVERY other comparable job.

    Managment was douchey, but it was just at that one store. I don't get the whole anti walmart bs.

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    ^^^ Then check this out: http://www.walmartmovie.com

    I know I mentioned this in another thread, but thought it was worth spreading the word again. If ya'll haven't seen this, it's great food for thought, and if your local video store doesn't carry it, it's cheap to order, and then you can pass it around to your friend!
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    Documentaries are NEVER biased. Especially since they're made to convince people of something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by krchab99
    I agree with alot of the employ complatiants but there is one thing I don't get working at wal mart is a crap job why do people expect so much from being as cashier at wal mart these jobs in retail are commonly low paid jobs I am not sure what all the hoopla is about. Yes i know thats insentive but if they hate there job they should look elsewhere. Please don't flame i have a habit of seeing things cut and dry like that.
    For many people it isn't just what they do here in the USA. They do some pretty shady things overseas as well. There are questions of human and labor rights abuses.

    Walmart tries to portray themselevs as a "faimly values" business but they are as cut throat and underhanded as it gets in many ways.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Optimist
    ^^^Yeah, me too. There weren't Walmarts in Jersey until a year ago. I visited my Dad down south and was stunned by the low prices. I was also stunned by my aunt's demeanor since she started working there. She says they suck and she's a go getter. You gotta be reeeeeally restrictive and abusive to piss her off.
    They have always had walmart in jersey hun


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    Bullshit. They just opened the Secaucus and Cinnaminson ones in the past two years. Perhaps they had 'em elsewhere. But those two are the first I've seen! Do you believe Walmart is the Alpha & Omega?
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    ^Why would I bullshit it aint that important . Dunno where you been but they have over 20 locations in NJ.


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    ^^^We just got ours in the past two years but the one in Ledgewood has been up for a long time...has to be at least 7 years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by seraya
    They have always had walmart in jersey hun
    Actually, no they haven't, hun.

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    I'm trying to remember when the one in Burlington/Willingboro opened, but it was a while ago. My brother worked there in high school.

    Just called them (609 386-8400) Burlington, NJ Walmart has been open for 12 years.
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    I don't shop their either.
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    in the interests of equal time ...

    (snip)"Pursuing this formula brilliantly, Wal-Mart has led a productivity revolution in retailing, which has supercharged the American economy, making a vast cornucopia of merchandise affordable to ordinary consumers, thanks to Wal-Mart’s much lower prices than in the days when small-town merchants took their 45 percent profit margins. The McKinsey consulting firm best summed up the cumulative impact of the company’s influence in a report entitled “The Wal-Mart Effect,” which estimates that the retailer’s focus on low prices and its constant stream of money-saving innovations accounted for up to one-quarter of the entire U.S. economy’s prodigious productivity gains in the 1990s boom—when inflation held steady despite a soaring economy. Savvy investor Warren Buffett even declared that Wal-Mart—not Microsoft or some other technology company—has contributed more than any other business to the health of the U.S. economy.

    Because Wal-Mart represents the leading edge of this American business revolution, the Left’s crusade against it is more than just a battle against a single company. It is instead a clash of worldviews, as unions and their allies, representing a narrow band of special interests masquerading as a populist movement, try to convince the public that super-efficient discounters like Wal-Mart lower workers’ standard of living even as they actually raise living standards by offering goods to so many at such low prices."(snip) from


    In other words, at no direct cost to federal and state govt's, Walmart has singlehanded raised the standard of living of low income Americans as much as any social welfare program.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie
    In other words, at no direct cost to federal and state govt's, Walmart has singlehanded raised the standard of living of low income Americans as much as any social welfare program.

    We'll see how that works out when the bill comes due from China.

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