Is Wal-Mart Too Liberal?

they need to quit saling jesus shirts, they are getting too much into religion, they are not a church

I work for Wal-Mart to pay my bills and support my family, which includes my Disabled Persian Gulf Veteran husband. For the comment that people make minimun wage, it all depends where you work, what state and such. I have insurance through Wal-Mart which takes quite a bit from my check, but you HAVE to have insurance! Wal-Mart has changed quite a bit over the years which is sad. They have cut many hours, and they have started a "Computer Generated" Schedule. Which leaves people with children in daycare, and people who are going to school and people like myself with a disabled person to take care of in a bad fear of how many hours will I loose, and will I be able to pay my bills, or will I loose my job. These fears were seriously magnified when the stores District Human Resources person said to a fellow associate who brought comcerns of these computer generated schedules to thier attention said: "Sam Is Dead, the kids run the company now, if you don't like your job, go somewhere else." What kind of company cuts hours and yet STILL wants the few associates who are working to help the customers when they are spread few and far between? Family friendly has gone and been replaced by money greedy people who are incharge of the company now. The Wal-Mart corperation used to care about the associates, and thier families. I used to be proud to work there, now I fear of loosing my hours and not being able to put food on the table, and pay the bills. People need to be aware of what is going on, and there needs to be change. I for one love helping people and working doing what I do. The customer USED to be # 1, now it is just the shareholders, the owners of the company, we are just grains of sand, easily discarded. Can America STAND UP to this? Can they make Wal-Mart change how they are running the stores? Making money means spending it, NOT cutting peoples hours so there is no one in the stores to help the customer. America made Wal-Mart change the way they offer medical insurance..........can you all help them change the way they treat associates. After all we are the people who put the items out there for the customers, and are the ones who come and help you all who shop there find what you need daily. Some of my fellow associates have written letter to the Home Office, but have NOT heard back from them. Others have said they are thinking seriously about going to the media, but they are afraid to loose thier job, because that is exactly what would happen. What can you do, any suggestions. Obiously gettin another job is the easy answer, BUT there has to be a way to make them change, the company, the way they treat associates. None of us can afford to go job hunting. Can't miss work or get sick. The old Wal-Mart used to care, they used to be a family of associates. What happened????

The argument that Walmart destroys competition has a major flaw: Consumers can literally buy anything they need or want off the internet and typically at lower prices than at brick and mortar stores. Retailers will not stock inventory that consumers choose not to purchase. Perhaps I am the last person left on the planet that doesn't need to shop at Walmart for anything? I do shop there for a few items due to low prices.

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Wal-Mart is bit by bit destroying what little is left of the free competiion era in the USA. They tell you what you are going to buy and at what price. They basically have no competition in my area of NE TN. If and item doesn't move to suit their beancounters, then it disappears quickly with no resource. They used to carry a line of incredible frozen Thai foods under the brand Thai-Thai, better than many Thai restaurants could provice. Itr didn't sell to suit them and thus it disappearsd never to be seen again. I'm so pissed over such things!

Wal-Mart has single-handledly destroyed almost all of the grocery stores in my area taking away such competition as Food Lion & Winn-Dixie. Now were are limited to whatever products they wish to sell us which greatly irritate me as so many products such as Winn-Dixie's fabulous Deep South products and Food Lion's Harris Brand She-Crab Soup. It 's getting to the point that with no real competition, they are going to sell you what they want you to buy. You never know from one week to the next what's going to be available.tell you what

I will not shop at Wall Mart

After going there for years, one of the ladies was checking me out, and the other girl
assisted me in taking my bags to my car- I was talking idly, and said Wow, you must
love this job (before I knew how they treated their employees) She said, Are you
kidding, I have been here for 5 years, and I still make Minimum wage! Well I was
shocked, and said "I heard that they pay fairly" she said- "Well if you are
a manager, they pay very well, and the managers get all of the benefits,
while we hourly people - have no benefits, they work us to death, and they stop
short of 40 hours a week (this was in California), so we get absolutely benefits,
it is the worst place I have ever worked, and if it weren't for the fact that I have
4 kids, and can walk to work, I would quit in a heart beat",
Needless to say I was mortified.
I offered her a big tip - ($10.00) , and she said," Oh thank you, but if I ever got caught
they would fire me"!!!
Now how is that for beloved wall-mart??

I wil never go there again- I would grow my own food first (which I have started doing)
I was appalled, and I say
SHAME ON WALLMART- THE CORPORT GREEDERS! I HOPE THEY F ALL AND FALL
BIG- THEY HURT THE POOR PEOPLE, AND PUT HARD WORKING BUSINESSES OUT
OF BUSINESS- I BOYCOTTED THEM YEARS AGO, I WILL NEVER STEP FOOT
IN THAT S--T Hole again. And neither should any of you
Upset Southerner (This is NOT THE SOUTHERN WAY)
jl,
Georgia

I do shop at walmart because it is basically all my community supports. I am happy that many people have employment and pay their bills. I think that the transition from ma and pa stores to walmart was a disaster for small town america. I saw my old home towns last independent store close because two walmart super centers came to town. It just made me sick because those people were the city, walmart is profit and sending money to communist china.

Well, the Republican agenda is consistant if not insightful.

They don't make those mercury bulbs like they used to. I still have a pair of old GE blubs from 1990. Still running strong. Today's GE's, you'd be lucky to get 4 months out of them. Thats GE's fault. Not very green. Now LED bulbs, those are green, but expensive to produce.