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  • Walmart suddenly closes 5 stores, lays off 2200. Why?

    04/18/2015 6:40:07 AM PDT · by RoosterRedux · 116 replies
    Conspiracy theorists are working overtime to explain why Walmart suddenly closed 5 stores in 3 states this week, laying off 2200 workers. The stores are expected to reopen in 6 months. The company claims the closings are releated to ongoing and pervasive plumbing problems. But the conspiracy theorists believe it has more to do with workers who took part in the Black Friday strike than with faulty sewers. Business Insider: Wal-Mart employees say they were completely blindsided by the news, having been notified only a couple hours before the stores closed at 7 p.m. Monday. "Everybody just panicked and started...
  • A smarter Walmart now closes store for “plumbing problems” not union rules and still wins

    04/18/2015 9:08:39 AM PDT · by Oldpuppymax · 36 replies
    Coach is Right ^ | 4/18/15 | Kevin "Coach" Collins
    The budding “revolutionary guards” among WalMart employees may be learning a lesson about economics in the real world; a course they were never offered during their substandard public educations. The pressure from militant employees and union thugs has brought about a series of raises for WalMart workers, which is supposed to be good news. But is it? Some of these raises will start immediately and others will follow until all REMAINING workers will see remarkable increases in their salaries; some will be getting $80 per week raises. Nevertheless, WalMart has not become the largest retailer in the world by voluntarily...