Does anyone else here hate WalMart yet continue to shop there?

[ploto]

Do not shop Wal-Mart for all the reasons stated above and then some.

[InRareForm]

walmart hate is overrated.

[T Park]

Niiiiicee Break out the Penn and Teller :

[baseline bum]

walmart hate is overrated.

Wal-Mart sucks. They're one of the main reasons we lose jobs to China. It's disgusting how they go to companies and tell them 'make your in China if you want us to buy it'.

Wal-Mart was a company that became large because of great technical innovation and smart marketing in their stores. Sam Walton was a great innovator who made Wal-Mart into a truly great chain up until the early 90s. Now they're basically making their money on arbitrage (i.e., on cheap Chinese labor instead of innovation).

They don't buy American stuff because Chinese is so much cheaper, and then they sell the Chinese at slight discounts to keep us buying it. Meanwhile, the jobs they create are for $9.00 an hour when the jobs they force out of the country are usually double that with health insurance also.

I don't want to put it all on Wal-Mart; Target does the same thing to manufacturers. Still, Wal-Mart as they are the most powerful en y driving our massive trade deficit with China. Asshole politicians (i.e., Bill Clinton) have really screwed this country over by selling us out to China with free trade to benefit allies (Hillary Clinton, former member of Wal-Mart's Board of Directors) while killing jobs. Wal-Mart is one of the main reasons this country doesn't produce anything anymore, and an economy built on credit and service jobs ensures we're going to get our asses handed to us by China in the next 100 years. I doubt there will be a such thing as the USA in 2108.

[baseline bum]

There's a reason why the 4 Walton kids with controlling interest are each among the 10 wealthiest Americans while approx 50% or more of the hourly employees are forced to receive govt subsidies like foodstamps or CHIPS (In Texas).

Do they pull the same act the fast food places do by limiting hours so the average employee quits in 3 months? (and hence, claim them as temps)

[Whisky Dog]

Do they pull the same act the fast food places do by limiting hours so the average employee quits in 3 months? (and hence, claim them as temps)

It's been a couple of years since I left so I don't know if it has changed, but they would hire a load of part time people to avoid paying any benefits whatsoever (promising them full time if they "earned" it) then "find" a reason to not allow full time to hardly anyone forcing people to quit to look for something else. For the people that are full time, you are basically told to get done with no overtime no matter what you had to do. Since the store is severely understaffed it would usually end up with either 1) the hourly working off the clock to get stuff done and avoid overtime, or 2) the asst. managers working crazy, ridiculous hours to get the stuff done. If you didn't get done what they wanted then they would start to look for reasons to get rid of you and make things a bit uncomfortable to see if you leave on your own. As an LP supervisor I controlled our camera DVR systems, and I had both the co-managers and store manager actually give me an associate's name and ask me to follow them on camera to find some reason to get rid of them. To this I told them to go into my office and conduct their own witch hunt because that is not what I do.

It was really sad... I would see people working there forgo lunch and not eat because they didn't have money for food - they would just sit in the break room for their hour and never eat. I turned my back on employee grazing for the most part because the damn people just wanted something to eat but needed the little money they got to feed their kids.

[keebie]

I shop at Wal-Mart constantly! But, I do not buy my clothes there. I mean, why go anywhere else if you have alot of miscellaneous things on your list...lol...Its your one stop shop.