I'm just using the same analogy of a good local store to a Walmart. If it's a hole-in-the-wall crap shop, who cares if Walmart puts them out of business?
Just as Walmart is helping support the pension industry and the payroll processing industry.
I'm just using the same analogy of a good local store to a Walmart. If it's a hole-in-the-wall crap shop, who cares if Walmart puts them out of business?Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Maybe what you might consider fine diningOriginally posted by: rjain
Maybe we should shut down all McDonalds. They're putting fine dining restaurants out of business.
Just as Walmart is helping support the pension industry and the payroll processing industry.Actually they are helping support the Medical Community and the Diet Book Industry!
You must have suckass Supermarkets if Wally World has better produce. LOLOriginally posted by: LordJezo
Well, maybe if local supermarkets would offer the same quality of goods as a Wal Mart supermarket I might consider them, but, anywho who pays higher prices for lesser quality stuff is an idiot.
Wal Mart produce is consistantly better and fresher then what the supermarkets are providing me with.
Originally posted by: ElFenix
l=i'm wrong]http://www.dol.gov/elaws/faq/esa/flsa/014.htm[/l]
interesting that you can work 40 hours and not be considered full time
You have a a point. In Merced CA the only retailer hurt by Wally World was K Mart, an even more craptastic store than Wally World. In fact Wally World was actually a boom to employment in Merced where as K Mart was phasing out workers with things like Self Serve Checkouts which did away with Cashiers. Of course until recently Merced was suffering from High Unemploymernt until Wally World, Costco, Loews and Home Depot opened up. While they may not be high paying jobs they at least gave many who were out of work a chance to work. Also the COL in Merced wasn't as high as other parts of CA so a person working for 10 or 12 bucks an hour could live reasonably well and even more so if they were a two income family. Wally World also hires Retards and Retired folks as Greeters giving them a chance to earn some money to supplement their fixed incomes.Originally posted by: rjain
I'm just using the same analogy of a good local store to a Walmart. If it's a hole-in-the-wall crap shop, who cares if Walmart puts them out of business?Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Maybe what you might consider fine diningOriginally posted by: rjain
Maybe we should shut down all McDonalds. They're putting fine dining restaurants out of business.
And to think. They do all that in the name of an evil, mudering, yellow Satan ball. Maybe we should erect a statue to the Satan ball in the Supreme Court, in deference to the historical importance of its worshippers.Originally posted by: Red Dawn
You have a a point. In Merced CA the only retailer hurt by Wally World was K Mart, an even more craptastic store than Wally World. In fact Wally World was actually a boom to employment in Merced where as K Mart was phasing out workers with things like Self Serve Checkouts which did away with Cashiers. Of course until recently Merced was suffering from High Unemploymernt until Wally World, Costco, Loews and Home Depot opened up. While they may not be high paying jobs they at least gave many who were out of work a chance to work. Also the COL in Merced wasn't as high as other parts of CA so a person working for 10 or 12 bucks an hour could live reasonably well and even more so if they were a two income family. Wally World also hires Retards and Retired folks as Greeters giving them a chance to earn some money to supplement their fixed incomes.
Originally posted by: Wag
Nabbed!
BTW- Wal-Mart just got nabbed for employing 300 unregistered workers.
Originally posted by: Wag
Nabbed!
BTW- Wal-Mart just got nabbed for employing 300 unregistered workers.
Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Originally posted by: Wag
Nabbed!
BTW- Wal-Mart just got nabbed for employing 300 unregistered workers.
Yup. Wal-Mart is a wet dream for cheap labor conservatives. Perhaps the gov't should just give WalMart an exemption so they can go hire illegal immigrants at $1.50/hr with no benefits. They can camp out in the hills behind the store every night and send their "wages" back to Mexico. That would show those lazy, good-for-nothing college students and retirees who think they're worth $8/hr AND benefits! But as Cad always sez, "They're free to quit and go find a better-paying job elsewhere."
CNN.com: Oakland, CA Bans Superstores
City council bans Wal-Mart style superstores, saying they would threaten smaller stores, cut wages.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The city of Oakland, just across the bay from San Francisco, has banned mega-stores like Wal-Mart supercenters from opening there, saying they would threaten smaller stores and depress wages.
The move comes as Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, plans an aggressive roll-out of supercenters in California, with 40 such centers set to open throughout the state over the next four years.
Wal-Mart had no specific plan to open a supercenter in Oakland, and a company spokeswoman said the ordinance was a blow to consumer choice.
The Oakland city council on Tuesday banned the opening of any "big box" retailer with more than 10,000 square feet of nontaxable sales, which typically means floor space devoted to selling groceries. Officials said the action was directed specifically at Wal-Mart.
In recent years, Wal-Mart has stepped up growth of its supercenters. Those stores include grocery items and are more than twice as large as its regular discount stores.Critics are increasingly charging these ultra-large stores that offer rock-bottom prices are making it difficult for mom-and-pop stores and even some fairly large retail chains to compete.
"Oakland has a lot of neighborhood stores," said Oakland city council member Jane Brunner, who said the move banning the supercenters was designed to protect those smaller outlets and their employees.
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Originally posted by: Orsorum
I refuse to shop at Wal-Mart. They're building one in my hometown now, though (after they've been fighting it for nearly 15 years, too ).
Because the Food is better and fresherOriginally posted by: RobCur
Why pay more at stores like whole food, publix, kroger etc. when you can pay much less at wal-mart?
Always low prices... nuff said.
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Because the Food is better and fresherOriginally posted by: RobCur
Why pay more at stores like whole food, publix, kroger etc. when you can pay much less at wal-mart?
Always low prices... nuff said.
They have some decent prices on packaged foods but to me it isn't worth the time to drive there for to purchase it.Originally posted by: murphy55d
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Because the Food is better and fresherOriginally posted by: RobCur
Why pay more at stores like whole food, publix, kroger etc. when you can pay much less at wal-mart?
Always low prices... nuff said.
Wal-Mart's produce is simply nasty where I work. I won't buy ANYTHING except bananas there.
Originally posted by: LunarRay
I understand the Walmart issue is the contractors hired by Walmart hired the illegals but, walmart knew they were illegals and conspired to reduce the costs based on the fact that they knew the workers were illegals... this makes Walmart in deeper than if they hired the illegals directly...
Originally posted by: CADkindaGUY
Originally posted by: LunarRay
I understand the Walmart issue is the contractors hired by Walmart hired the illegals but, walmart knew they were illegals and conspired to reduce the costs based on the fact that they knew the workers were illegals... this makes Walmart in deeper than if they hired the illegals directly...
I agree Walmart should be taken to task, but I thought "Illegals" were just "undocumented workers"
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