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Just for the record, I would like to say that I will not shop at any Wal-Mart store. Though I think that there are other retailers that are not that good, Wal-Mart is the worst of the worst. I see it as a company that puts people far, far behind it’s own agenda, and the stores are not that well stocked anyway.

I would like to ask a question of any anti Wal-Marter:

If Wal-Mart would DO everything you think it should be doing, what incentive would all the other ‘retailers’ have to follow suit?  If they already treat their employees better than the others, why haven’t the others already matched Wal-Mart?

They say “A rising tide, lifts all boats”, not, “Raising a boat, will make the tide rise”!!!

Mary Bowman,

since walmart pays associates as good, and in most cases better than there competition, how is walmart the worst of the worst.
Also walmart has a great benefits package for its associates.

Bob

You make a good point, why haven’t the others already matched walmart??
The answer is simple. as long as walmart is the only one being talked about, the others are below the radar.

It would be nice to hear from more people that are truthful, not just the ones that have an agenda.

The truth will set you free.

Everyone have a great weekend

“since walmart pays associates as good, and in most cases better than there competition...”

Sorry, bry, I’m going to have to call for a source on this statement. You may have the results of a more current study than mine and I’d appreciate the reference.

“A 2005 study (pdf) by Arindrajit Dube and Steve Wertheim of the University of California’s Berkeley Labor Center, however, sheds some light. Using figures for Wal-Mart released through a sex-discrimination lawsuit, and relying for the rest of the large retail sector on numbers from the March 2005 “Current Population Survey,” the study finds that Wal-Mart pays its hourly workers an average hourly wage of $9.68, while other large retailers average $11.08. (The study adjusts for the fact that Wal-Mart stores tend to be in lower-income areas.) As for health benefits, Dube and Wertheim found that Wal-Mart offers its hourly workers benefits worth 73 cents per hour, while other large retailers offer $1.”

Don’t forget that Wal-Mart offers the open door policy so that any associate can talk to management. This open communication creates a harmony between associates and management and an improved working relationship, resulting in working together to achieve a common goal. Customer satisfaction. That is the Wal-Mart way.

“including, I would say, with the spirit of the tax law.”

Ask enforcement, whether they follow the ‘spirit’ of the law or the ‘letter’ of the law!!!

Ken V,

““Current Population Survey,” the study finds that Wal-Mart pays its hourly workers an average hourly wage of $9.68, while other large retailers average $11.08.”

The key word here, is AVERAGE, take the average between top to bottom employees at a company with 50,000 employees and compare it with a company with 1.3 million employees and you could find that even though the lower rungs of the employment ladder could be lower, an Average of ALL employees might be higher in the smaller company.

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“Don’t forget that Wal-Mart offers the open door policy so that any associate can talk to management.”

Bob, you need to go to a Wal-Mart associate message board and read what employees think of the open door policy.  It isn’t pretty.

the only thing real about open door is you get lied to your face, instead of behind your back. booby do not respond to this since you claim you never worked for wm.

Ken V,

“Bob, you need to go to a Wal-Mart associate message board and read what employees think of the open door policy.”

I didn’t write that, it was my copy-cat.

Brought forward from a thread going off the page:

Ken V,

“Continually playing the age card is not only tedious but meaningless as well. Six or sixty, what matters is your views and your ability to substantiate them.  All livng six decades provides is an extended period to gather anecdotal experience.  There’s no guarantee the information was processed rationally.”

Age does do one thing, it adds to knowledge, wisdom and experience.  The old saying goes, “History repeats itself”, young people have little experience with history.  It is more likely, that a person can process information more rationally through experience, than they can reading it in some book.  Older people have seen that ‘picture that is worth a thousand words’, first hand, you only read what others percieved or want you to believe it to be.  My grandkids, have a hard time believing that I never had a T.V. or videogame system, when I was a young child, why, because they have always had these things.  You have trouble with what bry says, because you never had to experience what he talks about, but, being his age, I do, because I had similar experiences.  Try walking the walk, before you start talking the talk, then you might start to understand where bry is coming from.  Get away from your desk and go out and do manual labor for about 10 to 12 hours a day (without modern technology) and then you can talk with authority.

R E M E M B E R
J O N Q U I E R E
Q U E B E C
Home of Walmart Worker Abuse.
We will never forget what you did Walmart.

Apparently the powers that be didn’t like my answer, Bob, so we’ll leave it at that.

Bob in- troubles himself with these careful efforts-
Saturday, February 03 at 01:33 PM

They say “A rising tide, lifts all boats”, not, “Raising a boat, will make the tide rise”!!!

or

“If they already treat their employees better than the others, why haven’t the others already matched Wal-Mart?”

First- it is now “A rising tide lifts all sampans or Chinese junks.”

Second- Apparently you have been suckered into believing WalMart is a leader in the employee treatment model. Try Costco, treating its workers very well (average $16.50/hr.)with only 18% union representation and picking up 92% of all employee health care costs. And beating the crap out of WalMart/Sam’s Club.

WalMart- We make ourselves look like crap. Let’s blame the unions.

The problem I have with the old saw “A rising tide, lifts all boats” is the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder have been thrown out of the boat.  A rising tide doesn’t do you any good if you’re treading water.

Here’s an example* of what I’m talking about.  Back around Christmas time MSNBC ran a story on TV and their website about Christmas bonuses.  It seems that 40% of the American workforce recieves no bonus at all, and the average bonus for those that get one is around $650.

Hold on, you say! I didn’t get $650!  Well, that’s the average and what skews the number is some of the astronomical bonuses given out at the top of the ladder. One of the major financial houses (I believe it was Goldman Sachs) gave each of their employees a <b>$750,000<b> Christmas bonus.

What a shiny boat that is!

*Sorry I don’t have a link for this but my files are incomplete.