Wal-Mart: Always Low Wages, Always

After the F.E.C. finds Wal-mart is guilty, The man at the top needs to do some time! Ole Lee needs to spend some quality time in a cell with “Bubba” of course they’ll let Lee bring a soap on the rope from the supercenter of his choice.

While Lee’s doin his time, they need to seize all his money and assets to pay back the tax payer he has been raping all these years.

Get used to these words Lee “come on in here with Bubba your cellie, you going to be my new wife yuk yuk yuk”

It is shameful that Wal-Mart’s profits continue to grow while it violates labor laws across the board.

There are currently 80 lawsuits pending against Wal-Mart!

Plus- recent reporting by Liza Featherstone shows how companies such as Costco can turn a profit AND pay their workers a decent wage. No more excuse, Wal-Mart!

Between April and June, the company earned a whopping $3.45 billion, and sold an almost unfathomable $101.6 billion worth of merchandise.

With inflation at a 17-year high and the economy in the toilet, the Beast of Bentonville</b> is getting fat! What more proof do you need?

P.S. For those of you that don’t suffer from <i>Googlephobia*, I highly recommend reading up on Liza Featherstone.

*Googlephobia:the fear of doing research, fact finding, learning.

It’d be good if you guys could make up your mind on how Walmart is doing.  A couple days ago you were all happy cause they just missed their sales expectations.  Now they are making huge profits because of the poor economy.  Which is it?  You can’t have it both ways. 

PS Ken, You should try researching Walmart’s numbers from hen the economy was going well before you make statements that make you look foolish.  Walmart had some very nice sales, profit, and stock increases in the mid to late 90’s when the economy was supposedly doing better than it had in years.  I think that kind of ruins your theory that “what’s good for Walmart is bad for America.”

Dave,

Ken refuses to admit that the anti movement is having ZERO effect on Wal-Mart, and in fact, Wal-Mart might be gaining from the FREE publicity!!  Many people may be starting to shop Wal-Mart, to see for themselves, what the truth is!!

Many people may be starting to shop Wal-Mart, to see for themselves, what the truth is!!

True, RDS - and the stores most of these “newcomers” are seeing for the first time are the new builds/remodels that took a few design cues from Target.

IMO, many of the new WM builds/remodels are where Target was about 5 years ago.

It is time to change from REDNECK humor to TRUE AMERICAN Humor!

Only it isn’t seen as HUMOR, but the correct way to LIVE YOUR LIFE ! If you feel the same, pass this on to your True American friends. You all know who they are…

You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: It never occurred to you to be offended by the phrase, ‘One nation, under God.’

You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You’ve never protested about seeing the 10 Commandments posted in public places.

You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You still say ‘Christmas’ instead of ‘Winter Festival.’

You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You bow your head when someone prays.

You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You stand and place your hand over your heart when they play the National Anthem.

You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You treat Vietnam vets with great respect, and always have.

You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You’ve never burned an American flag..

You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You know what you believe and you aren’t afraid to say so, no matter who is listening.

You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You respect your elders and expect your kids to do the same.

God Bless the U S A ! Amen

AND YOU ARE A TRUE AMERICAN IF YOU THINK THE NATIONAL ANTHEM SHOULD ONLY BE SUNG

IN ENGLISH !

Hey Billy: You might be a true American if you refuse to shop at WalMart-a company whose BUY American now means BUH -BYE American! Who influences ,under duress, AND intimidates their employees’ most sacred civic freedom --their choice of for whom to vote ! A VOTE FOR WALMART IS A VOTE AGAINST DEMOCRACY!

ddrb,

dont shop at Walmart, never have, never will. Did you reed my first comment to this article?

Yeah, tell me about it!  Most people get the standard $.40 raise (even if they’re worth more than that).  Some people get fifty and sixty cent raises that don’t deserve it but that’s because you are punished for being a hard worker at Wal-Mart.

Right now we have a new system (copied from Target but in a real cheap and crappy way) that is being applied to third shift where you are timed and you have to do your job within a certain time period.  The main problem with this, however is that the times aren’t correct.  An example of this is that I was told that I had two and a half hours to put up four rocket carts (these are wheeled carts with stock that we have to work off of now that does nothing but slow us down) and I was told that I had “54 cases” but I went and counted how much I had (and it was a quick estimate because I couldn’t count ever single case that I had) and I actually had around 188 cases (and it was probably more than this).

So, basically they are about to start penalizing (they told me this) their workers for not being able to do a job that’s impossible to do (all because some inbred quasi-stalinist’s in Arkansas decided to do this).

I’m desperately trying to get out of there.  If you have any morals or sense of humanitarianism you will NOT shop at Wal-Mart to save a couple of bucks (unless you’re poor that’s the only exception to this).  Wal-Mart is a disgusting, evil corporation that represents the worst aspects of capitalism.  I have to stop myself from walking off the job every night.

Generic: I read on Talking Points Memo that Obama will be unveing a new logo-Buy American-Vote Obama logo tomorrow.~~~~~~Obama Camp Unveils “Buy American, Vote Obama” Campaign
By Greg Sargent - August 15, 2008,
The Obama camp is pushing a new theme in Pennsylvania tomorrow—it’s called the “Buy American, Vote Obama” campaign.

According to an Obama aide, the new effort dovetails with a renewed push by the Obama team in Pennsylvania to poke fun at John McCain’s recent claim that he would rather hear the roar of “50,000 Harleys” than the cheering of 200,000 Berliners.

As the Obama camp was quick to point out, McCain OPPOSED legislation that would have forced the U.S. government to buy American-made motorcycles.

Obama’s Pennsylvania campaign, the aide says, will be hitting the ground this weekend in around five towns around the state with stickers and flyers bearing the above “Buy American, Vote Obama” logo.

The events will feature a few dozen actual Harley riders for Obama that have been recruited for the weekend’s events.

“Harley riders aren’t typically supportive of Democratic candidates,” the aide says.

But if “Buy American, Vote Obama” catches on, it could conceivably be unveiled in other battlegrounds.

.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Talking Points Memo~~~~~~~

<b>Yeah bbrd… we already knew that!</b<

“...that took a few design cues from Target.

“...the new WM builds/remodels are where Target was about 5 years ago.”

Don’t look to Wal-Mart if you’re looking for innovative industry leading ideas… especially if those ideas cost Wal-Mart money to implement!

Perhaps Wal-Mart is finally getting the message that a stores shopping atmosphere translates into greater customer satisfaction.  Try as it might to shake its image Wal-Mart has solidified it’s business model based on low price...I think they are finding it increasingly hard to shake that image too!

I see this scenario being played out with two local competing gas stations.  The new station that just opened a few weeks ago...has been trying to whore itself in an effort to steal business from the other station across the street.  At first the station that was there the longest was going head-to-head with the new station on price.  Lately, however I’ve noticed that the older station now keeps it’s prices about 5 cents higher than the new station.  When I stopped in and talked to the mangager he just laughed.  He said, if they want to keep their prices lower all the time, that’s fine with me.  He said, “I know they are barely making a profiit” We’re making money...they’re not! (on gas and fuel that is)

He’s right too!  All the stations in this area pull from the same bulk suppliers.  Nobody is getting a “better price.” It’s a very tight and competitive market.

So as Ken once recommended, buy all those loss leaders from Wal-Mart.  Let them whore themselves.  It’s will all catch up with them sooner or later.  I’d prefer sooner!

...stock increases in the mid to late 90’s...

“In the mid to late 90’s” Wal-Mart was still Wal-Mart. After Sam’s death in ‘92, David Glass pushed the company and rode out Sam’s momentum. Bentonville’s growth was impressive!

It was during this time that the dreadful metamorphosis began, culminating with the ascendency of H. Lee Scott in 2000. Popping from the chest of the smiley Wal-Mart emerged the Beast of Bentonville, dripping with gore.

Stock prices, despite the boost from the poor economy, still have not returned to pre-Scott levels.

sad to see wages so low on high profits like that.

“Stock prices, despite the boost from the poor economy, still have not returned to pre-Scott levels. “

I think you said last week that the stock price wasn’t a way to measure a company now it is again.  You flip flop more than a politician.  Apparently you’re avoiding the posts on the other topic where I disproved your comment that “Walmart didn’t get to where they are today on 3% returns.” It’d be good if you’d stop making posts when you don’t know what you’re talking about.  Walmart is still the same company it was back in the 90’s when they made that increase.  They still catered to people looking for bargains, and wanted to keep their prices as low as possible.

You flip flop more than a politician.

And you misread more than a dyslexic. I said daily variations in stock prices have little bearing on a company or it’s business model.

You pro Wal-Marter are trying too hard. Relax! I slip up occasionally and then you can have a field day.

“The Bentonville Syndrome comes into play when a captive cannot escape and is isolated and threatened with unemployment, but is shown token acts of kindness by Wal-Mart. It typically takes about three or four days for the psychological shift to take hold.

A strategy of trying to keep Wal-Mart happy in order to stay employed becomes an obsessive identification with the likes and dislikes of Wal-Mart which has the result of warping your own psyche in such a way that you come to sympathize with your tormenter!”

“I don’t know who “people here” are but what I’ve been saying all along whether WMT is trading at 45 or 55, daily stock prices have little or no bearing on the company or it’s business model. “

You didn’t say daily variations you said daily stock prices.  Are there really any other kind?  Did companies start giving annual stock prices because I must have missed that memo.  I can’t wait to see how you change the subject or explain that your definition of stock price is different from the rest of the worlds.

It’s not what you say, it’s what people hear. ~ Frank Luntz

Obama said: “I would not have nominated Clarence Thomas. I don’t think that he … was a strong enough jurist or legal thinker at the time for that elevation. Setting aside the fact that I profoundly disagree with his interpretation of a lot of the Constitution.”

He added that he also wouldn’t have nominated Antonin Scalia, and perhaps not John Roberts, “though he assured the audience that at least they were smart enough for the job,” The Wall Street Journal noted in an editorial on Monday.

The editorial continued: “So let’s see. By the time he was nominated, Clarence Thomas had worked in the Missouri Attorney General’s office, served as an Assistant Secretary of Education, run the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and sat for a year on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the nation’s second most prominent court.”

Obama, on the other hand, “isn’t yet four years out of the Illinois state Senate, has never held a hearing of note [with] his U.S. Senate subcommittee, and had an unremarkable record as both a ‘community organizer’ and law school lecturer,” The Journal observed.

“Justice Thomas’s judicial credentials compare favorably to Mr. Obama’s presidential résumé by any measure.”

© 2008 Newsmax. All rights reserved.

Justice Thomas’s judicial credentials...

Is that a pubic hair in my Coke?

Wal-Mart is the exemplar of a form of corporate colonialism, which is to say, organizations from one place going into distant places and strip-mining them culturally and economically. ~ James Howard Kunstler

Ken V: Well,don’t they always say,"Things go better with Coke?"LOL-----------(BTW, I remember that,too,and it was the first thing I thought of when I read the upthreads about Clarence Thomas!)

Well,don’t they always say,"Things go better with Coke?”

Not since ‘68 (which explains a lot of things).

LOL

Lemme guess—you cut your internet teeth in a chat room?

Shame on us, Double D, we have a memory.

I’m not sure you’re quick enough for a chat room, bb. You don’t have time to be as cute as you try to be.

“Success isn’t measured by how much merchandise you sell. Real success is found in the development of, and opportunities you provide for, the people who are selling it.” ~ Barney Kroger

“Obama said: “Setting aside the fact that I profoundly disagree with his interpretation of a lot of the Constitution.”

That statement scares me a lot since Thomas’ interpretation is to take it as it is written, I can only assume that Obama is all about rewriting the Constitution through bad legal precedents.  We are in serious trouble if he gets elected.

That statement scares me a lot...

Shhh, Dave, it’s OK. Even if we elect him President we won’t let that mean, ol’, boogie man Obama get you.

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” ~ H.L. Mencken

Ken V,

“it’s OK. Even if we elect him President we won’t let that mean, ol’, boogie man Obama get you.”

You mean the way YOU didn’t let that mean, ol’ boogie man Bush get you?  If Obama gets elected, how do you intend to stop him, if he doesn’t do what you expect him to do?

...how do you intend to stop him

Calm down RDS, you’re too old and disabled to be drafted. Once again you can let others fight the McCain Wars for you.

If you Google McCain draft you will get 4,340,000 results.

<i>One guy even sent me his script for “George W. Bush: The Musical.” (Georgie sings to Big Daddy: “Any war you can start, I can make bigger; I can make any war bigger than you.") ~ Maureen Dowd

Liberals are too funny and predictable.  I remember 4 years ago when Bush got reelected liberals like Ken V were saying how they just knew if Bush got reelected he was going to reinstate the draft.  Now his term is almost over and it still hasn’t happened so they transfer the lies about the draft to the next Republican, and they accuse conservatives of using fear to advance their agenda.

Ken, didn’t you learn the lession the last time you were chastised for the stupid posts on “google hits” and what they mean? 

Google “Obama draft” and you get “4,630,000” hits so I guess we have a better chance of Obama instituting a draft vs. McCain.  Nice (stupid) call again Ken!

Dave,

“Liberals are too funny and predictable.”

They still can’t explain how Bush got elected for a second term, when they CLAIMED he stole the first election!!  Liberals are so self absorbed, that they can’t see what is right in front of their faces!!  They always come up with some EXCUSE or conspiracy theory!!

Neocon Republicans are good at spending money we don’t have and committing troops we don’t have. We’ve seen we can finance a war by borrowing from China but where do we come up with canon fodder for Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, and Russia without reinstituting the draft?

They still can’t explain how Bush got elected for a second term...

I thought the London Daily Mirror page 1 headline explained Bush’s reelection quite nicely:

“How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?”

A few words from the founder of Newsmax,OCS’(Onward Christian Soldiers) favorite information source.To wit:~~~~~~~~~Newsmax Media is a news organization founded by journalist Christopher W. Ruddy and based in West Palm Beach, Florida. Ruddy, who serves as editor-in-chief, describes Newsmax.com as “the leading independent online news site with a conservative perspective, specializing in lies and innuendo."~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Wikipedia

““How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?””

Seems, then, that the liberals must be ‘dumber’, because according to the Democrats, they were robbed in the first election and actually had more votes and should have won!!  Where was that Liberal majority in the second election?  Besides, if BUSH was as bad as you claim, the Dems should have garnered even MORE votes!!

Nice (stupid) call again Ken!

You want to read stupid, Mary? Here is a quote that is really stupid.

Than if that is the case, and the “number of hits from a search engine means there is that amount of information out on the subject” then it must be true that Obama (with 3.2M “hits") is MORE of a “warmonger” than McCain (with 2.7M “hits"). Thanks for clearing that up Ken.

It’s no wonder you are so wrongheaded, Mary. Read that over a couple of times. Not only is your absence of rational thinking obvious, but you actually appear stupid..

Ken V: Does that above statement mean Mary is....LYING?

It’s funny that lying come up in this topic since the headline is “Walmart: Always low wages always.” First of all they know it’s a lie since they complain about how much Walmart executives make in other topics.  Even not including management, I am an hourly and make about twice the per capita income for my area and more than the per household income which would include businessmen and other professionals.  So clearly Walmart’s wages aren’t always low.  Unless above average is low.