U.S. PIRG Report: Tainted Toys Still on Store Shelves

WalMart is a toxic tort unto themselves. It is taking a risk to buy things at WalMart. 80% of their products on the shelves are from China and that means the most negligent product safety review and screening the Bush ‘love of money’ slobs can gives their friends in Bentonville.

Remember the tainted dog food that may have killed your kid’s puppy? WalMart.

Remember the tainted seafood that gave you that exciting evening in the emergency room? WalMart.

Remember the tainted canned chili that made it into your pantry? WalMart

Remember the all the hazardous Chinese products that went onto the trash because they were ‘affordable’. Junk from WalMart.

Remember all the state taxpayer funded welfare that went to ‘associates’ for health care? WalMart.

Remember all the billions in public subsidies for Bentonville to build new stores and distribution centers and run out the unsubsidized competition? WalMart.

Remember the news about good paying American jobs that have left the United States and went to Mexico for $1.20/hr and then to China for $.35/hr. WalMart.

Remember that Costco employees (average $17/hr) and other retailers that pay living wages with health care benefits help America’s families and they can pay their mortgages on the wages they make. Not at WalMart.

WalMart- We make our money by being a poverty engine against American workers. We also kill petty theft suspects from our ‘love of money’ psychopath business Asset Protection attitude.

WANT TO KNOW WHAT I LOVE ABOUT WAL-MART?

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I’m having a problem Copying & Pasting that into my Keeper file, JOE????

if costco is so great sdv and pays so great then why in the hell do they have such a high rate of turnover and unhappy people there then?they are not paid that great.why isnt every american quitting their job and going to work at costco then if their wages and benefits are so great then?most costco workers are part time i know folks who work there and cant get full time work.dont give me this bs and bunk on how great costco is because you have to be spoiled and wealthy rich to be able to afford to shop there regularly unlike walmart.

sdv why dont you go work for costco since you brag so much on them.go work there and report back to us.until then we dont want to hear your bs and lies.

Let us examine matthew’s ignorance and WalMart worship-

Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton once said, “I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We’re going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Wal-Mart#_note-
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“Is Wal-Mart Good for America?” PBS. November 16, 2004. Retrieved on February 24, 2007.

A few notes on Costco to enlighten matthew aka imbecile #8-

And Sinegal says he’s also built a loyal work force. In fact, Costco has the lowest employee turnover rate in retailing. Its turnover is five times lower than its chief rival, Wal-Mart. And Costco pays higher than average wages—$17 an hour—40 percent more than Sam’s Club, the warehouse chain owned by Wal-Mart. And it offers better-than-average benefits, including health care coverage to more than 90 percent of its work force.
<http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Business/story?id=1362779>

A Corporation That Breaks the Greed Mold
By Jim Hightower, AlterNet
Posted on June 22, 2004, Printed on June 25, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/19014/

Indeed, Costco’s pay is much, much, much better—a full-time Costco clerk or warehouse worker earns more than $41,000 a year, plus getting terrific health-care coverage. Wal-Mart workers get barely a third of that pay, plus a lousy health-care plan. Costco even has unions!

Yet, Costco’s labor costs are only about half of Wal-Mart’s. How’s that possible? One reason is that Costco workers feel valued, which adds enormously to their productivity, and they don’t leave—employee turnover is a tiny fraction of Wal-Mart’s rapidly revolving door.

Another thing Sinegal rejects is offshoring: “We could move [some operations] to Bangladesh or somewhere. But what kind of message would that send to our employees? Not a good one, I think.”

While Wal-Mart makes twice as much profit as Costco, Sinegal believes its better business to make a nice profit, but not a killing, and to invest more in Costco’s 92,000 workers. “I don’t see what’s wrong with an employee earning enough to be able to buy a house or having a health plan for the family,” he says.

Wal-Mart’s success has come at an enormous and painful cost to our national and local economies. From its boarding-up of Main Streets to its failure to pay workers fairly, to its imposing on taxpayers welfare costs for its underpaid employees, to its material contribution to our obscene ballooning trade deficit with China, this “Wal-Martization” of America is leaving us with an economy increasingly characterized by a gaggle of cheap imported consumer goods, shoddy employee practices, and insensitivity to communities.
Leo Hindery Jr., a former CEO of telecom carrier Global Crossing

WalMart- We hire frauds like matthew to post internet bullshit and lie to America.
Obvious to all but matthew the deluded little puppet himself.

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sdv costco costs are lower?bull them import the same items from china and overseas that walmart does..funny sdv costco got sued this week for lead in toys and you are so quiet on that?.costco just sells the same imported items for higher prices that dont make them any better.sorry i know people who work at costco and have worked for costco its not as great there as you claim.they have high turnover and very few people are able to get full time work.they are not as filthy rich there and their benefits there are not not as great as you claim.how about other american companies sdv like freightliner sending jobs to mexico and others too?is that walmarts fault?of course not you imbecile.i dont post union and govt bs and stats on here like you do sdv you imbecile.and i am not hired by walmart either.i have worked in retail and union grocery unlike you and know my shit. unlike you on costco

Why is Nick not posting on this forum? I for one miss him? Is he still banned? C’mon, WMW, grow a pair! What are you afraid of?

hey matt baby.how come you say so much and say it like so wild an bold you all.i want to say the union gorcer words like you do and costco target words cause your so cool at what ya do.hope you do some shopping at the price checks cause you might as well friend.when we gonna get together?hope soon so i can learn all the wisdom from your wild head.see you later allegator.

Matthew has to use another screen name and like someone different just so he has a friend, thats hilarious. Matthew your the dumbest S.O.B I’ve ever seen posting in any forums. You dumbass we can see that you are using both id’s because of the spelling. What a loser.

Sicko - don’t you know SDV’s “ghost writing” when you read it????

Be careful who you throw stones, at..............

All this posting about Costco, so I thought I would put my two cents in.  I knew people back in college that worked at Costco part-time.  A lot of their part-time employees are college students which makes perfect sense.  If you had a full load of classes you really don’t have the time to put in 40 hours a week at a job.  So why the hell not work half as much for the same amount of pay you could get full-time elsewhere.  It’s not rocket science.

“In fact, Costco has the lowest employee turnover rate in retailing.”
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Business/story?id=1362779

Sam Walton sheepishly credited Sol Price for the warehouse idea from then FedMart/Price Club operations here in San Diego in 1983. A year later Sam Walton opened his first Sam’s Club. Sam Walton was less of an innovator than he was simply into exploitation of other people and their ideas.

To this day Costco beats out Sam’s Club in sales per employee and total revenues with Costco having fewer stores and fewer employees who make 40% more in pay than WalMart pays their Sam’s Club workforce. And Costco employees have real health care paid for (92%)that covers approx. 90% of their personnel.

Costco stock has out performed WalMart stock exceptionally over the past 5 years or more.

WalMart- It is not just that Costco and other retailers are more responsible to society and make us look bad. We embarrass ourselves by treating people like crap in our economic ‘love of money’ junkie and business model for the damned. And we (the slobs of Bentonville) are going to keep it that way.

costco treats people like crap sdv ive known people that have worked there its not as rosy as you claim.costco discriminates when they hire too.their benefits are not that great.they pay 92% of employess benefits?sorry i looked on costco.com and was unable to find that and didnt see it.you are full of bs sdv on that one.if thats true then it would have been on their website then.get your facts right sdv before you spout your mouth off.

There are shills and then there are SHILLS!

“I for one miss him?” Stan G

Guess what “Stan”, you’re the ONLY one.

Hey MV, was curious and did a quick search and here are just two of the numerous articles I found backing SDV claims.

http://www.laborresearch.org/print.php?id=391

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/articles_2004/costco_employee_benefits_walmart.html

costco workers dont make 41,00 a year to start out sdv your are full of shit.

sorry walmart sucks unlike you i dont believe all the stats and bs on the internet like you do.

No Matthew, you get all your info from the Walmart Propaganda machine.  Stats from the US Bureau of Labor or other Labor research groups wouldn’t interest a Walmart loyalist like yourself.

Hey, I happen to live near a town that not only has a Walmart Supercenter but also has a huge ass Walmart Distribution center.  You may know a couple mentally retarded or elderly individuals who work as greeters at your local Walmart.  But since living here I have met a lot of people who work at the store and at the distribution center.

FYI most of them are not very happy about working for Walmart.  Funny that I have often run into one of the elderly greeters shopping at Safeway.  Hmmm, you think it would be more convenient for him to pick up some groceries after a shift of waving at people.  Guess he can’t get out of there fast enough!

It’s sad but when a potato processing plant closed down in Hermiston some of their older workers ended up taking jobs with Walmart.  The younger ones were able to get on with the railroad.

there are more unhappy people at the stores you patronize like target,k-mart macys,and those expensive union grocers than at walmart corgi and thats a fact.i have exp working in these areas corgi unlike you and know my stuff.how about all the ceos of union grocers swindling their workers out of good wages and benefits?dont blame walmart for that potato plant closing.funny when someone other than walmart corgi takes business away fromstores you regularly patronize we dont hear shit from you,but if its walmart its the only time you say shit.explain that one to me.why is walmart in your mind not allowed to sell products at low prices,but places you patronize and love like grocery outlet stores,dollar tree and big lots are.how come you dont bitch when these other places pay poverty level wages and take business away from your favorites?explain that corgi.i will be eager fro your answer.

peoiple dont have to apply at walmart corgi no one forces them to.they apply there because they want to work for a good place.sorry i dont buy govt stats they are full of shit and alwaysare and are biased.

Matthew, why do you seem put out that people are on here to discuss Walmart?  This blog is about Walmart, is it not?  Get it into your thick skull.

And if you had read one of my recent postings you will see that I did criticize Dollar Tree for the toothpaste tainted with anti-freeze.

Plus in rural areas like where I live a lot of people often don’t have a choice but to take jobs at Walmart as that is the biggest employer we have.  And again, if you feel so strongly about Walmart being so wonderful and better than your current employer, why are you not working there Matthew?

I also found it interesting that you compared Walmart wages today to a grocery job you had paying $5.35 per hour?  We both live in the state of Oregon and I think we both know how long ago any wages were that low.  And for all we know the min wage might have been $4.00 per hour at this time when you were making more.

i never said walmart was better than my present employer a grocery warehouse.its walmart better than a lot of places you are in favor of that have high prices and that cater to the rich.union grocers pay minimum wage to start which in oregon is 7.50 an hr and not much more than that to start out.thats poverty level wages.funny corgi you have no problem with that.folks apply where they want to and no one forces them to apply at walmart.there are other jobs like gas stations and other grocers in these areas and in some cases other retailers to apply at.dont give me this bunk that walmart is the only place they can work at maam.

corgi i dont get anything from the wm propaganda machine.i get it from my own eyes and previous exp working in retail and grocery and witnessing things unlike you who are badly brainwashed by the ufcw union and govt whose stats are full of it.you believe too much of the internet nonsense unlike me.

jerry, mary, stan g, someone...? why haven’t you posted a validation to my previous postings? are you ignoring me or distancing yourselves from my self inflicted gunshot wounds to my deluded ego and all the bullshit i roll around in?

previouss stop imitating me.

“imitator”...using the question mark gives you away.

matthew vantress in gresham oregon’s number one rule:

Do not use the ‘Shift Key’!

So no ?’s. Sorry.