Walmart

Hey guys i was just wondering..........


I am from Australia and i would like to know what you guys are talking about when you talk about walmart being bad? I have seen some threads on here about Walmart and was wonderin if u could clear it up for me and give me some background to it, so i can understand what you guys are talking about!

We dont have WalMart here, but we have Big W, Kmart etc, are these similar?

Any replies would be great, as im curious as to what this is all about.

 

Walmart is alright.

 

HI! walmart is similar to kmart in that its a department store, but wal mart is pretty well known over here for putting small, "mom and pop" businesses out of business.
plus, they evidently don't treat their employees very well, discriminating against women and all.
to me, its just so HUGE and obnoxious that i hate to be in the stores. there is SOOOOO much stuff and its overwhelming !

cheers,
christine

 

o ok then thats cool,.


i was just curious coz everyone seems to hate wlamart with a passiona nad ithought maybe there was something really bad yet interesting to hear about lol..


thanx again

ciao

ash

 

Walmart being the biggest corp' of this kind gets all the shit.. You must have Mcdonalds ? .. Think of all the crap they get ..its about on the same par...

http://walmartwatch.com/

http://www.walmartfacts.com/

you deciede

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=walmart&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t-289&fl=0&x=wrt

I have found a lot of people dislike walmart 'just because' though others have a genuine 'beef' with the comapny..it is a personal choice though. You won't here many nice words around here about walmart hahahahaha.

 

Walmart well end up ruling Australia you guys are doom. Burn down every Walmart before its too late.

 

Wal-Mart intimidates their employees into not forming unions, keeping wages and health insurance cost for the corporation to a minimum. Wal-Mart brags about giving their employees benefits, but most of the benefits are for full time employees and cost that employee a few hundred bucks a month. Most can't afford the insurance because they're only making 6-7 bucks an hour.


When a Wal-mart moves into a community, they have a quota they have too meet. The quota is the minimum amount of current local business they have to put out of business. In the community (Butte Mt) that quota was three. I'm not sure what it was where I moved from (small town Oregon) but within 6 months of Wal-mart moving in I can name a half dozen businesses that shut down because of Wal-Mart.


For every dollar spent at Wal-mart, only about 30 cents stays in the community. They rest goes to the corporation and sweatshops. For every dollar spent in a local store, usually between 65-70 cents stays in the community, meaning more local funds for schools, social services, and development that does more economic good for city than one chain box store.

One last thing. The whole save money at Wal-Mart thing is a lie. Here's an example. The owner of my place of employment did a price comparison from our store and from Wal-Mart. Priced the EXACT same items for a large Thanksgiving dinner at both stores. The total at Wal-Mart for the exact same items came out to be 20% more. They lower the prices on some times (some items they WILL NOT be beat on price) but they jack up the price on other items they feel people don't pay that much attention to.

 

wal mart = evil... we got it....


how many evil wal mart threads are there in here anyway?

 

1. the second one was set up by wal mart
2. a certain amount of that charity work goes towards alleviating taxes (cough dow chemical cough)
3. they sell pairs of pants for the same amount someone who makes the pants makes in a month.....
if said person got paid actual minimum wage in their own nation which frankly wal mart has a civic responsibility to make sure they do then these people would be living almost comfortably.....

but wal mart is about being effecient and delivering a good low price with a healthy profit margin while performing suspect business practices that are even now subject of lawsuits....


you just like being the devils advocate don't you? you know that walmartfacts site is full of spin, granted the anti walmart site is also, but they have ulterior motives for most of their good, for their evil their motives are pretty straight forward as with most any entity.....

 

No [i am not a devils advocate] i genuinly think Walmart and companys like them get a hard time [mmm okay i might be a little]...Its just dull when you read these threads and know one says anything to counter the negativeness. A lot of people still believe myths and hearsay.
I know the second one was set up by walmart , i was posting them to compare [i am nice like that] ... plus the multitude of other sites dedicated too walmart.

Business practices subject to lawsuits... dozens i would imagine. I would be worried if they did not have any .

Of course the charity stuff is a tax right off to a point.. But after a point it is part of what they want to do... give em a break .

 

Well here is another reason not to like wal-mart. I got this off another web site:

 

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/08/walmart.crash.ap/index.html

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http://warehouse.carlh.com/article_043/

made this out of a piece of crap shoe rack from wal*mart....

 

patent it ..before wal-mart find out..and charge twice as much as the the shoe rack cost.. greedy bastards..


seriously i think wal-mart get a bad rap..but hey i can joke now and again.

 

I was always on the fence about Wal-mart. Wal-Mart does provide goods and food at much lower prices so people with limited incomes can purchase these things. They also paid people well above minimum wage here in the US. I know a person who makes $10.60 an hour + heal benefits to stock shelves. But their blatant discrimination of women is a strike against them and now their “unhealthy need not apply” policy and their intent to violate peoples privacy in regards to medical records is stepping way over the line. It took a lot but they have finally got me on board! I will not buy anything from Wal-mart or sam’s club until they change their policies.

 

mmmm i don't have time to read 1.5 million pages of evidence..

though i think it is proably valid..if you ignore the flip side . Wal-mart are not going to be given a break are they.. even if they are partialy guilty of not having full control over every action of every employee.. the smaller picture may not reflect the bigger picture [if you see what i mean].

 

LOW PRICES

http://www.walmartmovie.com/teaser_qhi.php


and confessions of a WalMart hitman

http://www.walmartmovie.com/confessions/

been 2 years since I darkened the door of a walmart.....

 

Im glad to hear that so many more ppeople see the light now than a couple years ago....
My friend once said, "What do you mean you hate Walmart? they really care about people, they make things a low price for all us poor people"
Well, I had to break it to him, "Brother, why are people poor in this run down FORMERly thriving manufacturing town? Because Walmart has been forcing companies (who gave full time jobs and benefits) out of our country for years so that they can afford to make their products at a lower PRICE, we are truly paying the price now, we are consumers, not producers anymore....Now those that worked in the factories are working at Walmart"
He was speechless, and changed the subject pdq

namaste

 

I am not sure if I am reading your post correctly or not. It seem to me that wal-marts discriminatory policies toward women and the disabled are corporate , meaning coming from the top. This do not seem to be the misguided actions of a few local managers that you post seems to imply.

 

Sorry..

I don't believe it is coporate..merely on a local level.. how the local managers and workforce respond to policys should be looked at on a coporate level [and i would imagine are - we just never read about it - we just get the negative].

It is valid a acusation that discrimination or less than a modern way of masculine feelings and un PC comments or actions are made.. If you ignore the fact on a coporate level http://www.walmartfacts.com/newsdesk/wal-mart-fact-sheets.aspx these things are not tolerated and programes are in place to cut this out. They are partialy responsible in not being able to communicate with the general public the perception of not being on the ball as far as anti-discrimination policys go. Though i think the amount of hyperbolic screaming from anti walmart protestors seems to overwhelm the majority of good or favourable things wal-mart says or does. The smaller picture [local level] does not seem to reflect the bigger [coporate] level of coporate social responsibility http://www.socialfunds.com/csr/profile.cgi/1908.html

Investment analysts tend to applaud Wal-Mart's money-saving treatment of workers while looking down on Costco's expenditures on employees, considering this to be money deflected from shareholder coffers. Such opinions seem myopic, missing the bigger picture of how employees repay with increased productivity.

http://www.socialfunds.com/news/article.cgi/1795.html


It does all seem profit lead though [depends how you interprete certain realities of business]..wich i guess what protestors are really erm protesting.