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Sounds like they actually completed that project many, many years ago LOL
Retail giant Wal-Mart (WMT) will open its first Hispanic-focused supermarkets this summer in Arizona and Texas. The stores will feature Spanish speaking staff and new layouts, products, and signage that will be "relevant to local Hispanic customers."
The stores, dubbed Supermercado de Walmart, will appear in converted Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market stores in Phoenix and Houston. Separately, the company also plans on converting a Sam's Club warehouse into a Hispanic-themed Más Club.
Some of this reflects Wal-Mart's U.S. stores chief Eduardo Castro-Wright's previous experience in the company's Mexican subsidiary. But it also reflects the realization that by 2042, according to the Census Bureau, ethnic and racial minorities will represent a majority of the U.S. population. So instead of apple pies and hamburger buns; get ready for Latino pastries and tortillas.
Now that the sales boost from penny-pinching consumers is peaking, it's nice to see the company ramping up capital investment plans in search of new sources of growth. Prior to the recession, the company was focused on revamping existing locations with sushi bars and faux-wood floors. Besides the multi-cultural efforts, Wal-Mart is pushing forward on its Marketside convenience store concept.
It appears that the "consumer trade-down" investment theme is over, as shares have come under pressure since the beginning of the year. There are rising concerns that the Obama Administration's support of the pro-union Employee Free Choice Act will likely translate into much higher labor costs across the company's U.S. store base. Earlier this week leaders in both the House and the Senate introduced the legislation, so things are moving forward. If passed, the Act would allow employees to unionize if a simple majority wanted to join the union -- waiving the requirement for a secret ballot election that takes place up to 50 days after employees pe ion for representation.
Citigroup analysts downgraded the stock this week on these concerns. The obvious outcome for Wal-Mart is higher hourly wages, increased benefits, and decreased scheduling flexibility. As a result, the retailer will likely be forced to raise prices to protect margins -- undermining the company's main compe ive advantage.
In anticipation of rising costs associated with a unionized workforce, Wal-Mart is looking to grow the top-line by opening its powerful supply chain to new markets. From Hispanic shoppers to inner city vegans, a wider swath of the population will soon benefit from the company's massive scale. Also worth mentioning is the push into retail health care services. But these are long-term growth stories. In the near-term, investors will continue to be pressured by the negative sentiment surrounding the card-check legislation.
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Sounds like they actually completed that project many, many years ago LOL
Why do hispanic folks seem to think it is perfectly acceptable to pack up their toddlers and head to Wal-Mart at 1 in the morning? I actually saw a girl almost lose it because her kiddo wouldn't stop crying and she actually said "What is your problem? Be quiet!" I couldn't resist answering for the kid. I told her "He's sleepy. It's one a.m." and walked away. I'm sure she stared all kinds of daggers at my back, but it felt good.
i remember one time i was doing a late night wally world run and i was in the ass wipe/computer paper aisle. they had an announcement on the intercom then it was repeated in spanish. there was this old grumpy white man right by me that looked up at the speaker with the most horrid look of disgust. he let out a "g--dam mexicans" and stormed away. i was cracking up for a while over that
Why do hispanic folks seem to think it is perfectly acceptable to pack up their toddlers and head to Wal-Mart at 1 in the morning? I actually saw a girl almost lose it because her kiddo wouldn't stop crying and she actually said "What is your problem? Be quiet!" I couldn't resist answering for the kid. I told her "He's sleepy. It's one a.m." and walked away. I'm sure she stared all kinds of daggers at my back, but it felt good.Yea, you think it's going to be nice and quiet at 1 in the morning, but it's not.
Ive seen plenty of folk of all races do that kind of stuff at 1am.
Why do hispanic folks seem to think it is perfectly acceptable to pack up their toddlers and head to Wal-Mart at 1 in the morning? I actually saw a girl almost lose it because her kiddo wouldn't stop crying and she actually said "What is your problem? Be quiet!" I couldn't resist answering for the kid. I told her "He's sleepy. It's one a.m." and walked away. I'm sure she stared all kinds of daggers at my back, but it felt good.
It's also an accepted practice to leave the dirty diapers in the parking lot for the rest of us to roll over the next day.
what's great too is that you think you are just going to get a few things amd run in and out.
Problem is that there is only one cashier at 1am and there is always someone with two baskets full of WIC items.
Yea no .
I ing can't stand wal-mart. Not just because of mexicans, because of everyone! No matter what time you go it's ALWAYS packed, I once went at 4:30 in the morning on my way to work to pick up something and they had lines out the wazoo, I was so ticked. And for some reason all of the STUPID people seem to love to congregate in the middle of the aisle I need to go down. it, I'll pay a dollar more and go to Target.
Also the risk of getting flattened by a pallett of Great Value fabric softener is high.
lmao @ ASF thinking it's exclusively a hispanic practice of going to wal mart late at night with a baby. every ethnic group has its fair share of trash.
HEB has this problem too.
As does the Target at City Base.
and walmart blows balls.
it's only good for late night quick shopping runs... and even then it has issues because they never have enough ing cashiers.
if there was a nearby 24 HEB i'd go there instead.
I didn't mean to imply that it was exclusively hispanic, but I regularly do the late nite WalMart thing, because that's usually when I'm headed home, and more often than not, the crying toddlers are hispanic.
I went to a WalMart in El Paso one night at 2:30. Looked like a freaking play date.
As if some HEB Plus locations weren't bad enough.
I've seen plenty of snot nosed, whining and crying babies of ALL racial backgrounds at all times of the day and night.
I'm not surprised you feel that way.
Just get in a motorized wheelchair, and run over their azzes.
Wally Martinez???Hispanic Wal-Mart
+1just get in a motorized wheelchair, and run over their azzes.
Well, there you go.
I have a feeling, based on the article and experience that one of the Houston stores being converted will be the WM I normally shop at. . . oh well, there is a super Target just down the street from there that is less crowded and a lot more clean.
So just because of the conversion you'll stop shopping there!?!?
One thing I hate about going into Walmart are the lazy fat ass people that roll around in the electric carts because they're too fat and lazy to walk. Then the really old and/or crippled people that actually need them can't get them.
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