No lo entiendo? No lo entiendo?
I read a lot of comments here from folks who definitely do not have a clue about what happened or why. Livingston, Tx was one of the stores closed. My sister in law worked there for 20 years. 90% of the workers there were part time. They were kept under 40 hrs a week on purpose. Why do you think they needed 220 workers for one store? The plumbing problem was 1 problematic urinal in the restroom. No plumbing or other permits have been issued by the county. I’m not sure about the other stores but have heard no permits were issued there either. This particular store had a full parking lot except during the night, so plenty of income. There was no union push here so that can be taken out of the equation. Deliveries to the store only stopped 3 days before closure. Tons of groceries were donated to local charities. Now with these facts in place, and keeping in mind WM’S business model, some of the conspiracy theories don’t seem too outlandish.
I know for fact, that one of the WalMarts being closed is a bonifide ghetto mart.
Hookers, druggies, and strip joints surround it.
I assumed the plumbing issue was guns and needles clogging the pipes.
If Whole Foods had announced that it was temporarily closing five stores for plumbing problems, no one would have said a word.
Walmart has some problems and not just union problems. Walmart is suffering from a lot more competition and honestly their current management is largely made up of pretenders who are running a disjointed ship where one hand is working against the other. A decade and half ago Walmart had visionaries at the helm. Now all the people who built the company are mostly gone or dead and have been replaced with people who don’t understand that the bottom line of their success is middle America. Those bible believing, gun toting, patriots who have been increasingly marginalized in the popular culture outside of the bright spots like Duck Dynasty are no longer loyal to Walmart and nor should they be.
Actually, this will allow Walmart to regroup and re-employ those who want to work instead of protest. This means getting rid of those who caused the protests, as well as those who participated in it.
Employees need to understand, you don’t protest your employer when you actually have no grievance. I believe Walmart has always paid higher than “minimum wage” .. and if you’re willing to work - and do a good job, you can get good benefits and regular increases in pay.
All types of theories and answers on the same posting as yesterday.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3280232/posts
Wal-Mart suddenly closed 5 stores and laid off thousands of workers and no one knows why
finance.yahoo.com ^ | 4/17/15 | Hayley Peterson
Posted on 4/17/2015, 8:51:24 AM by cotton1706
The closures could last up to six months and affect roughly 2,200 workers in Texas, California, Oklahoma, and Florida, CNN Money reports.
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 crying,” Venanzi Luna, a manager at a store in Pico Rivera, California, told CNN Money.
All workers will receive paid leave for two months. After that, full-time workers could become eligible for severance, according to CNN Money. But part-time workers will be on their own.
Local officials and employees have questioned Wal-Mart’s reasoning for the closures.
According to ABC News, “no plumbing permits have been pulled in any of the five cities where the stores were suddenly closed for at least six months.”
A city official in Pico Rivera confirmed to CBS Los Angeles that the city has not received any permit requests for building repairs.
In Midland, Texas, where another store was closed, a city official told ABC News that his plumbing inspector was turned away when he visited the store and offered to help secure construction permits.
Wal-Mart plumbing technician Codi Bauer, who worked at the now shuttered store in Brandon, Florida, questioned the company’s time frame for the repairs.
Too many five fingered discounts?
A known unknown, as Rumsfeld would say.
Wal-Mart owns the stores. They can do as they wish. Companies are in business to make a profit, NOT provide jobs and benefits for employees. If the union rabble-rousers directly or indirectly caused these stores to be shuttered, the employees buying into their string of lies only have themselves to blame.
doesn’t pay to try to unionize a walley world store.
In practical terms, the Wal-Mart head office obsessively micromanages everything in its stores, to include their temperature.
They likely paid an architecture firm to create a standard model store design. Which would mean that maybe four or five stores built with that design, before it was replaced with an updated design, if it had a major flaw, would all have the same problem.
The key to this, in my opinion, is how evenly spaced across the country these stores appear to be; that indicates a goal related to logistics and distribution. Does anyone here still believe that Jade Helm 15 is a ‘simple training exercise’?