Wal-Mart’s Damage to Communities Far Outweighs Charitable Donations

Walmart employees not only suffer because of low pay and unaffordable benefits, but also are not given the same opportunities to purchase popular electronic items as the “normal” customers are. My friend was reprimanded , given a “coaching”, and a day off to come up with a plan of action after purchasing a WII game for a family member. It is a shame that some of the least compensated employees in the nation are not given the chance to own a popular video game to enjoy with their families. He has since purchased the game accesories at TOYSRUS and has decided not to “COMPROMISE HIS INTEGRITY” any further by purchasing LIMITED SUPPLY ITEMS from the company that he is employed with.

Kathy Guzman,

I’m sure you won’t post a follow-up message, but I’ll throw this bone out to everyone else, reading…

You do realize you are talking about the same Wii that is in record short supply at every single retailer in North America, right?

While your statement reads to the masses as if Wal-Mart is being heartless by not allowing their customers to buy a toy for their family (was it for a family member in their household?), there is much more to the Wii supply phenom than meets the eye.

Given the enormous popularity of this item (and the $500 + price tag it is currently fetching on eBay, just days before Christmas), Wal-Mart’s actions are not surprising, from a retailer’s perspective.

All retailers in the U.S./Canada are only receiving a few (5-10) Wiis per shipment (I saw one exception in the Las Vegas area, last weekend when a major game retailer received an unusually large number of consoles), and they are usually off the shelves within minutes.

Currently, there are over 17K Nintendo Wiis listed on eBay - yes, that’s 17,000 boxes, which all originated from Wal-Mart, and other big-box retailers.

Let’s put it this way:  If you were a Wal-Mart customer, and wanted to buy a Wii from WM at the regular price ($250), wouldn’t you be a little more than peeved to learn that the game consoles never even made it out to the display case (and instead were divvied-out in the stockroom to the store associates - and to add insult to injury that those workers got it for a lower price).

My guess is WM wants to make the Wiis available to customers, first.  My guess is that by doing so, WM will most likely increase their sales/profits by selling additional Wii hardware/software (which, in most cases, is not in short supply).

As for the “least compensated employees in the nation” remark, my take is that you can’t please everyone, so why not make it available to the customers?

Isn’t Wal-Mart supposed to be in the business of selling things to customers?

bbrd

That statement of yours makes you the top nominee for Walmart ass kissing lackey of the year.

Richard in MeSsedUp,

Sometimes, the truth hurts, eh?

kathy is fed a line of garbage and buys into it.how do one retailers low prices lower the median wages and cause jobs to be exported?i dont see it folks.its govt policies like high taxes on businesses that cause jobs to be exported not wm

“That statement...”
Richard in MSU

Ah yes Richard, but you haven’t seen all the other lame ass kissing lackey WalMart crap that bbrd has posted on this site.

WalMart- We hire internet frauds, shills, trolls and ass kissing lackeys like bbrd as a ‘war room’ dog taking a dump on your internet front lawn. Besides, his obvious view is that capitalism is a right reserved for WalMart only and not their impoverished employees.

Ah yes Richard, but you haven’t seen all the other lame ass kissing lackey WalMart crap that bbrd has posted on this site.

So, Sage was right—you doseem to only be a “Christian” as it suits whatever agenda you have going-on, at the moment.

Like I said previously, my dish rag has more to offer than your copied/pasted “words of wisdom"…

bbrd,

It is amazing, how much crap, these people will believe!!  You offer a rational explanation to a comment and are called a “Walmart ass kissing lackey”, for stating the FACTS!!  I just saw a segment on CNBC, that showed just what you said about how hard it is to get a WII and how much they are getting on E-Bay for one, guess they are lying, right?

It seems to me, that if they printed an article here, saying that Wal-Mart is using their back room and performing organ removals on their employees, for sale on the organ ‘black market’, you would see posts claiming that Wal-Mart should be taken to task for doing such a horrible thing!!

These people will believe just about anything, except reality, that is!!

As for that “least compensated employees in the nation” remark, I would like to see someone post the facts to show this!!  Maybe, in California, this may be true, but not the NATION!!  In my area, these wages are average or even upper middle!!

I just saw a segment on CNBC, that showed just what you said about how hard it is to get a WII and how much they are getting on E-Bay for one, guess they are lying, right?

No lies, RDS - I can make my “ass kissing” statement with the straightest of faces, as I have personally purchased and/or re-sold 3 Wiis myself, this holiday season.

DISCLAIMER - none of my three Wiis were purchased from Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. or any of its’ affiliates.

Just a matter of my being in the right place at the right time.

(I can’t wait to see how this will be spun and what names I will be called, now...)

“Just a matter of my being in the right place at the right time.” ~bbrd

This is just gamer geek speak for: “I’ll stand outside in a light drizzle at 2-3 AM for the chance to get a half dozen or so Wiis at select retailers.  I’m the same kind of geek who stands in line for 3 days dressed as my favorite Star Wars character, so I can be among the first to see the movie.”

Hey, don’t take my word for it.  Just ask Triumph the Insult Comic Dog

ScrewedbyWal-Mart in Anytown, do you enjoy insulting people especially during the holidays?

ass kissing lackeys?how about intelligent,and smart enough to see through all the propaganda and phoney baloney on wm on here?thats us the wm supporters on here.and no we are not paid by wm,this is our own opinion.if you dont like it get out of the kitchen.

All you WalMart ass kissing lackeys-

Santa died on a cross for your Mastercard debt.

Merry Christless Consumerism Holiday Season from all the other

“us”, “we”, “our”
matthew vantress president of WAKEUP (Walmart Ass Kissing Edelman United Propagandists) local 666

Since your pro-WalMart spokesman states that ‘none’ of you are paid, I feel just terrible that all of you are being cheated out of life as fervent, dedicated, strange and random members of the WalMart business model defense and propaganda cult.

Wal-Mart / Edelman, Part Two: Will the Real Bloggers Please Stand Up?

O’Dwyer’s has more revelations about the multifaceted fakery engaged in by Wal-Mart and its PR firm, Edelman. Edelman staffers have been posing as “grassroots” bloggers on two Wal-Mart websites, for the Working Families for Wal-Mart front group and paidcritics....

The paid bloggers are Edelman’s Miranda Gill, Brian McNeill and Kate Marshall.
http://www.prwatch.org/node/5317

“In terms of PR strategies, Rubel last year told BusinessWeek that the first job for companies is to monitor the blogs to see what people are saying about them. The next step is to think of damage-control strategies. And when blogs attack, he says companies have to learn to track what blogs are talking about, pinpoint influential bloggers, and figure out how to...”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15319926/

WalMart/Edelman- We are associated by chance as a collection of ‘love of money’ psychopaths and propagandists.

“...do you enjoy insulting people especially during the holidays?”

Did my previous comment resemble you a little too much, Lea in St. Louis?  Was that you we saw in the Triumph clip?  Actually, I enjoy “insulting” ass-kissing Wal-Mart lackeys all year long!

I hope nobody is equating or defining the battle against Wal-Mart, in terms of the rising and falling of the Wal-Mart Watch star.

A weakening economy is Wal-Mart’s strongest “ally”.  Given the choice between a robust economy with plenty of good paying jobs, strong home sales, citizens who know what a savings account is and what we have now, my bet is that Wal-Mart is hoping things don’t improve too much.  Let’s hope 2008 brings us some REAL leadership in Washington to get this country on the right track!

Instead of fighting the immigration battles along our border to the south and talking about building more fences, let’s build a solid wall of factories along the border, hire all the Mexicans that want to work there, and make them “honorary taxpaying citizens.” Who says we can’t compete with China?  Let’s start to make things in America again.  That’s my wish for the new year.

Peace.  Joy to the World!

DISCLAIMER - none of my three Wiis were purchased from Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. or any of its’ affiliates.

That would only be a problem if you were an employee of Wal-Mart.