Is Wal-Mart Too Liberal?

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  • Posted By: shanekins @ 06/01/2008 8:46:56 PM

    I couldn't agree more with JuanLevinez's comments. i work at walmart too and i am apalled at the way the hourly associates are treated. we are pushed to do more work with fewer people - at any given time at mywalmart- there are at least 25 people on leave of absence- mostly because of stress. EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK - it doesn't happen at my store. But i have quite a collection of those 2 cent pins when i would rather have the 2 cent raise in pay

    • Posted By: lademonessa @ 06/02/2008 6:38:39 AM

      I worked there for eight years, had multiple commendations, etc, but the second a new young thing walked through the door she was making more than me with weekends off. After eight years of exemplary service I was making $8.49 an hour and that big vestment check was for $1300. But, oh, unions are bad. That's right. Unions are bad because they *gasp* fight to get you more money which hurts the multimillionaires who need it more than we do. Riiiiiiiiight.

      • Posted By: dolfan31 @ 06/09/2008 10:33:47 PM

        You are dead wrong. If unions are so great then why are they shrinking so fast ? I guess you think everybody is stupid. Could it be that you were not that good of worker. Why would you work there so long if you could due so much better ? I guess you could not due better but need to blame some one other than yourself

    • Posted By: dolfan31 @ 06/09/2008 10:28:26 PM

      No one forces you to work there if you are such a great employee, with such good credentials go find a better job. It is not any company's job to take care of you it is your responsibility. Or maybe this is the best job you can find otherwise you would be out making 100k some were. Take the responsibility for your position in life!

  • Posted By: ab123 @ 06/09/2008 10:31:05 PM

    I work at the Wal-Mart home office and I love my job. I am paid well, have good insurance, and have wonderful benefits! I would never want to work anywhere else. People who bash Wal-Mart should just wake up and realize that WE ARENT GOING ANYWHERE! We work to make peoples lives better one day at a time. We carry NUMEROUS green products including CFL lightbulbs, organic cotton clothes, and home decor. To help reduce the mass of plastic products we have recycled bags that can be reused EVERYTIME you go to shop. I dont know what I would do without Wal-Mart! I love the stores!! I shop at Wal-Mart just about every other day and couldnt think of a better company to work with! I AM AN ASSOCIATE -NOT AN EMPLOYEE! I choose my Wal-Mart!!

  • Posted By: maewilson @ 06/09/2008 10:28:08 PM

    I live in a small town vicksburg mississippi. and We have people that shops from at least 4 states at our walmart. Every single day its full unless you go very early in the morning or very late at night. Now I love walmart the best thing that has ever happen in our town. But we need another one here to so people can shop at ease. and leazure. There are thousand of people per day there . I go at least 4 times a week. because I love to shop there It has everything I need.

  • Posted By: mignon1718 @ 06/09/2008 9:58:15 PM

    TO:MissTiggs1527 - Guess you are a product of our public schools from the looks of your spelling! No wonder you are so blissfully happy, most stupid people are. Stupid is as stupid does. You had at least 9 mispelled words, not to mention you don't know how to capitalize.

    As for bruce865 @ 06/09/2008, you are incorrect. Our ANCESTORS were immigrants, and the majority of them entered this country legally. If a person enters this country illegally, he/she is already a lawbreaker, so why should murder, theft, or any other law matter to him/her?? Tell you what, you can pay my portion of taxes to support them since you seem so compassionate!

    • Posted By: bruce865 @ 06/09/2008 10:26:53 PM

      explain how legal coming into this country and killing native americans?

    • Posted By: dolfan31 @ 06/09/2008 10:14:17 PM

      Please due some research and find outs some facts before you continue to embarrass yourselves by spewing lies about how Wal-Mart treats it's employees. Remember it is still a free county and know one forces the over 1 million american employees that work at Wal-Mart to due so. The store in my rural town pays high school kids $10.00 an hour. I would have loved to make that in high school.

  • Posted By: ppullion @ 06/09/2008 10:20:35 PM

    I work for Wal-Mart and I enjoy my job as a Customer Service Manager. Yes they may not pay the best pay, but it is a reasonable amount if you know retail when you start, otherwise yeah i too would pay you less if you didnt know Retail.
    I work for them parttime as a second income due to cost of living and expenses. Wal-Mart really was meant to be a supplimental income, not to rely on fulltime hours (which is 32-40 hours). Benefits i could care less about as i have great benefits at my full time job.
    Wal-Mart has good stuff for reasonable prices compared to other places where most of the middle-low class cant afford upfront.
    I love Wal-Marts supercenters, great prices compared to the grocery stores like Ralph's, Albertson's and Vons (in order of least expensive to most rediculously over priced). Why would i buy V8 Splash for over $3 at the grocery stores, when i can get it at Wal-Mart for around $2? you have to be a smart shopper in order find good deals, cause not everyone is cheaper than the other.
    Too Liberal, NO. People need to realize one thing, WE DONT LIVE IN THE 70's, 80's or 90's anymore! Wake up and realize change is good, get used to it or move to another country (Bet you there is a Wal-Mart there too!)

  • Posted By: say_no_to_chemtrails @ 06/09/2008 10:12:14 PM

    To; mignon1718- I hate to split hairs here, but you misspelled "misspelled". Oh, and Wal-Mart is evil no matter how liberal they say they are.

  • Posted By: cchamb2 @ 06/09/2008 9:38:11 PM

    Sam Walton said that an economy could never recover from a recession if there was not a domestic market for its goods and services. Walmart's greatest supplier is China.

    Sam Walton believed in Made in America. Walmart's greatest supplier is China.

    Sam Walton also believed that his store associates were the source of WalMart's competitiveness and creativity, and deserved to be treated as its greatest asset. Boy, has that changed in 20 years!

    I haven't been in to a WalMart to shop in years.

    • Posted By: anand454 @ 06/09/2008 10:11:45 PM

      I am lucky I guess I punish Wal-mart for betraying America the right way. I do not shop there. I will buy made in America first, made North America second and I can not get it there then Free nations only. Sorry China you are out of the loop. Hey maybe my Liberal friends with there political correct I love Tibet lies can actually do the peace loving thing and boycott China. All we are asking is give peace a chance Boycott Walmart.

  • Posted By: talulahredlips @ 06/09/2008 6:08:38 PM

    Give it a rest!!!! Stop watching movies, television, sports events....and so on and so on!! Hellooooo!! Open your eyes there are gays and lesbians everywhere...the right is everywhere, the left is everywhere....the conservatives are everywhere, the liberals are everywhere....WHAT PLANET do you whiners live one???? The problem isn't Wal-Mart...the problem is complete fools such as yourselves!!! Don't shop at Target, the 99cent store, Big Lots, Sears, they all have goods made in China. India too, Thailand and so on....I am sure there are businesses out there that may only be 'Made in America'....Change, comes from within. And to all you Bible thumping so called Christians...Tolerance? Judge not lest ye be judged..! Hypocrites....I know there are normal folks out there....where are you....Some of you gave great common sense comments...and then some of you your heads are up your fannies!!

    • Posted By: beccah_08 @ 06/09/2008 6:34:51 PM

      Not all christians are judgemental hypocrites against gay rights so if you have a *** comment to make on here dont generalize it to just one group or you're being just as judgemental. What you think your opinion means a damn thing to most people on here neway?

      • Posted By: bruce865 @ 06/09/2008 10:08:45 PM

        let me rephrase that for talulahredlips . most bible thumping christians are intolerable to gays

    • Posted By: V1CK1E @ 06/09/2008 6:27:10 PM

      LOL... It couldn't be said any better.
      I guess people just need something to *** and whine about.
      There are many families who would not be able to feed their families in this U S of A if it werent for places like Walmart with low prices but I guess it is better they starve right, because of political correctness.
      So yes, Where are all the normal people?

  • Posted By: fccsw @ 06/09/2008 9:58:14 PM

    Wally World too nice to unions? That is the biggest bunch of BS I've heard in a long time.

    Fact Wally World is staunchly anti-union. Will fire it's employees for trivial matters. The retail grocery industry stinks as far as a place to work at that one can be at ease at. Wally World smells the worst.

  • Posted By: littleguy56289 @ 06/09/2008 7:31:28 PM

    I live in Minnesota and if I really want to go to a "big box" store I go to Target. True, they have the same sort of methodology that Wal-Mart employs, but at least the profits to Target stay in my state of Minnesota.

    • Posted By: ELEVANS9353 @ 06/09/2008 9:56:21 PM

      No it doesn't!!!! Even when the hurricane hit, they refused to offer any help. They are from France and all proceeds and relations go to France. Girl Scouts can't even sell cookies at their stores. Don't talk about thing that you don't know EVERYTHING about.

  • Posted By: Wolf20 @ 06/09/2008 9:56:15 PM

    I agree very much with the comments Posted By: The Redneckbaron . If you don't like the values a company has then shop somewhere else. I also agree its not just one side that has screwed over people its both sides! Isn't it strange how this country can be torn apart by separatism of parties, its the whole "he said she said" deals with the lefty or righty parties and it needs to stop, and its so sad that our very first president warned us not to divid ourselves that it would only lead down a path of destruction for this country. He saw this and yet we still continued to divid ourselves! We (my mother and I) used to shop at Wally World a lot in Tx when Sam Walter used to be alive, I remeber the slogan that they "endeavoured to provide products that were made in America", it might have been true at some point, but it has obviously changed since the death of Sam Walter. We have noticed that it has become a major corporation and hails the almight dollar rather then care about its empolyees or customers. I don't know how many times I have walked into a Wal-mart only to find it dirty, something leaking from the ceiling, shelves in disarray, and some of the staff increditably rude! And on top of that they keep raising their prices and the quaility of the merchandise they sell is going right down the drain. But I have to say the only thing good is that they do provide organic products as my family prefers to buy products like that then harsh chemicles, and items you can't recycle, and I like the idea of using cloth bags instead of plastic bags, we always reuse our cloth bags but when we used to get plastic bags they always got thrown away. But yes If you don't like the store or its qoute "values" then don't shop there. But its going to take a lot of people to use their money somewhere else before Wal-mart starts getting concerned on where its profits are going.

  • Posted By: dragoul69 @ 06/09/2008 9:54:38 PM

    the price of fuel is nut's I hate wal mart. they use child labor in swet shops over sea. look close there is nothing there made in the USA it all B/S. this politically correct crap is nuts oh my you called me that I'm sueing. everyone needs to grow the hell up.and take the blame for what each one did to someone instead of blaming someone esle. I say f--- the politically correct sissy fid people who are so up tight. that they just dont know when someone is joking around. I'm an artist and I love pissing off people with my art work.. I dont give a damn what people think. but people better start thinking for themselfs before all of our freedom is gone takin away by other countrys and our own

  • Posted By: dragoul69 @ 06/09/2008 9:54:14 PM

    the price of fuel is nut's I hate wal mart. they use child labor in swet shops over sea. look close there is nothing there made in the USA it all B/S. this politically correct crap is nuts oh my you called me that I'm sueing. everyone needs to grow the hell up.and take the blame for what each one did to someone instead of blaming someone esle. I say f--- the politically correct sissy fid people who are so up tight. that they just dont know when someone is joking around. I'm an artist and I love pissing off people with my art work.. I dont give a damn what people think. but people better start thinking for themselfs before all of our freedom is gone takin away by other countrysand our own

  • Posted By: mike1974sm @ 06/09/2008 5:44:26 PM

    i work at walmart in enid oklahoma its not a good job but its a job they screw you out of your overtime that you work by haveing you cut your time by the end of the week and if you dont work over then your not a team player and get treated like crap if people chould here from some of the people that work there they proble whould not even whant to shop there

    • Posted By: V1CK1E @ 06/09/2008 6:04:27 PM

      My dear that is not Wal-mart , that is your store manager who wants his bonus for that quarter. He is the one who make sure that no one is getting overtime by the end of the week. At my store I have worked plenty of Overtime and got paid for it because my store manager cared more about his employees and having enough registers open for his customers then worrying about how much was going into his bonus. You can't blame walmart for that, you can blame your store manager.

      • Posted By: mishkamouse1963 @ 06/09/2008 9:50:45 PM

        Vicki you are so right about that. You go girl !!

  • Posted By: southern by birth @ 06/09/2008 9:50:30 PM

    If WalMart wants to "bow" to what the customer wants, how about opening up a few more of their cash registers so that the customer can pay for the merchanduse they have spent valuable time selecting instead of putting it back on the shelf after waiting so long to pay. Our local store has 39 registers and it is rare for more than 6 of them to be manned. --Columbia SC

  • Posted By: Sandipatti @ 06/09/2008 7:18:02 PM

    This country was based on God and the belief of good, honesty, hard work, reward and the American dream. Our founding Fathers were not liberal and we had a great country.
    If we give in to all the pressure from people coming foreign countries, we will have a country just like the one they left for ours. Our wonderful, strong country is weakening and becoming a third world one. The beliefs and dreams my Grandparents came here for are gone. Our English language is shattered. They wrote and spoke almost perfect English in anticipation of becoming an "American". Now you cannot find people who speak our language. They are insulted you cannot speak theirs.
    Stores are no honoring holidays. How can anyone be insulted we honor any holiday. This is America! We have holidays! I am not insulted when someone celebrates a holiday, birthday, prays (to anyone).

    • Posted By: conservativeforlife @ 06/09/2008 8:33:03 PM

      In response to Pauls View, I believe Sandipatti, is speaking about immigrants that immigrate to the US and refuse to learn the language or the culture. They want to change our culture and celebrate their own Holidays while not assimilating to our ways. If these immigrants are leaving their third world hell to come here for a better life, then learn our language and assimilate or don't come.. If there third world hell was so wonderful then why come here.. WalMart is attempting to appease the left which don't even shop at there stores or scream boycott everytime that WalMart does something they don't like,.. Liberals are insane..

      • Posted By: bruce865 @ 06/09/2008 9:42:39 PM

        you stupid conservatives are so racial. aren't we all immigrants. why didn't we learned the native indians language i bet if you were in their shoes, you would do exactly the same thing. die you idiot

    • Posted By: navywavegal @ 06/09/2008 7:40:54 PM

      Sandipatti we all some where along the line came from another country where it be a european or any where else in the world and yes we need to remember that the language of this country is American English. But we should also remember when we got to other countries even to visit to try and at least speak the language I have traveled many place's and seen and heard people that are english speaking going why do they not speak english when that is not the langauge of the country they are visiting.

  • Posted By: MissTiggs1527 @ 06/09/2008 9:40:08 PM

    I find it exstreamly humorous that the far right with thier columbine shootings, teen pregnancies and decentigrating marriages/high divorce rate, can sit and judge anyone else when their lives are far from perfect. Wish for once the moral sappossid norm would leave the rest of the happy people alone to live thier lives. I guess missery really demands company, and if they can't be happy, noone else can be either. P.S. if this is really america than we all should have the unaienable right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. unless conservatives don't believe in those concepts either.

  • Posted By: hsbeason @ 06/09/2008 5:50:53 PM

    who the hell cares............... I personally am sick of this liberal, conservative, red, blue, right left stuff . Political discussions DO NOT belong at a business meeting. I applaud Wal-mart for trying to keep prices down, especially prescription prices. That's another whole story, pharmecutical companies that is.

    • Posted By: mishkamouse1963 @ 06/09/2008 9:33:28 PM

      I shop at wal mart. After shopping at food world i realized that i was not getting hardly any food for my money. I would walk out of there with hardly no food after spending 100.00 or more. Then, I started going to wal mart to buy my food. I spend 100.00 and came out of their with enought food to get by for the week. I like the low prices at wal mart. The only thing i don't like to much are the way thay package their meats. Other then that and the way small buessness ( mom and pop) go out of bussness because thay can not compete with wal mart prices. I know because i own a small bussness at one time. Other then that, as a custermer i am ok with wal mart. I never worked for them, so i don't know anything about how thay treat them. Jobs are hard to come by now a days. It seems that their is mistreatment with almost every job you have. Just have to learn to deal with it the best you can.

  • Posted By: texasmom1 @ 06/09/2008 8:36:44 PM

    "Some investors apparently agree: at last week's ExxonMobil meeting, where a group of Rockefeller heirs unsuccessfully urged the company to broaden its focus on renewable energy, a speech by FEAF manager Steve Milloy received loud applause."

    I haven't seen anyone else address this part of the article. I'd really like to know what Steve Milloy's speech contained; was he pro or anti renewable resources? I have a sick feeling that he was anti-renewable resources, considering that he was a paid consultant of ExxonMobil, paid to discredit any scientific data regarding global warming. I would like to read the speech before I pass judgment on him, however.

    I am astounded daily by the fact that all Liberals AND Conservatives aren't rioting in the streets over the way ExxonMobil and their cronies are crippling our country, while they're making record profits. Disgusting.

    The only thing I read in the message boards that surprised me was the note about WalMart videotaping customers who buy guns. That made me feel so much better about WalMart!! How on earth could anyone be offended about that? I wish they wouldn't sell guns at all, but at least they're doing something to help law enforcement officers track down the sleazebags who use them to commit crimes and take lives.

    • Posted By: Matt308 @ 06/09/2008 8:57:24 PM

      Good Lord. Obviously you have no grasp of economics 101. Supply and demand curve? Remember that from first year of college... oh never mind.

      And you actually think that criminals buy guns from WalMart? What shell do you live in?

      • Posted By: ©†JËRËMŸ-ÇÄTHË¥™†® @ 06/09/2008 9:28:24 PM

        THINK GOD SOME ONE BELIEVE THE SAME AS I, PEOPLE NEED TO GET A GRIP ON THE FUEL ISSUES THAT CRIPLES OUR COUNRTY, NOT STUPID WALMART, HEY THEY SELL GAS AT SOME LOCATIONS, AND ITS EXXON FUEL , HOW IRONIC , JEREMY C.

  • Posted By: miedono @ 06/09/2008 9:21:30 PM

    What a joke to say that walmart has any values what so ever. It takes advantage of the working poor. It is the biggest supporter of communism by buying the majority of the products that it sells from China. How many times has this company been caught stealing from it's employees for changing time cards to benefit the company. Walmart robs the poor to make their shareholders richer. Hum, guess that is the conservative values at it best. P.S. I am a union and had the unfortunate experience of helping to build a local Walmart. I got to see first hand how they treat their employees and it was not pleasant. Would rather have less than give them a penny of our money.

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