If the industry average is $17.50 per hour no wonder it would pay to work for WalMart.
$17.50 will hardly get you a teenager to work in a fast food restaurant.
I wonder if most took shots? wonder if they will have issues like pilots, and others?
“Walmart has become the largest company in human history...”
By what metric is Walmart the largest company in human history?
Pay people more than going rate if you want to keep them. Treat them well and let them know you appreciate them. Don't give them any excuses for failure to meet top performance expectations. If they fail, make an example of them and let someone else have their opportunity. Things will work out well using this tactic and most people will be very happy. So much so that even the employees will not tolerate sloppiness in others.
High standards
Better than Amazon on many common things, but lacks the diversity of items, and the items available for free ship to home ($35 min) is inferior to Amazon, as is its cart page and its version of Prime. Amazon Prime costs $14.99 per month + $139 per year. Walmart+ will run you $12.95 per month or $98 per year, but you are expected to tip about 10% for every delivery. But thank God we have such!
all i can say is that walmart apparently doesn’t run its trucks on Sundays because their shelves are stripped bare on Mondays and not restocked until Tuesday ... years ago we stopped shopping at walmart on mondays because it was pointless ...
Since I worked at the corporate HQ for Wally for 5 years from 2001-2006 I can tell you they are a giant logistics machine. Logistics lies at the heart of their competitive advantage. This was the case long before they were a giant company and had economies of scale they could leverage against their competition.
They built their own information system rather than buying one off the shelf like everybody else did. That in-store information system combined with their system of distribution centers and the trucks to connect them, allowed Wally to come out of the backwoods of Arkansas and absolutely wipe the floor with everybody else.
They’re not great marketers. They never have been. Look at the displays for example at a Target and look at the displays in a Wal-Mart. The Target ones are invariably better. Target will for example, put a whole bedroom set together showing how their furniture and their bedsheets and pillows and bedspread and little nick nacks all fit together and look nice. That way they won’t sell just one item, they’ll sell a bunch of them together.
Wally will just lay out their cheaper items individually at the end of the aisle but won’t have a display like that that allows the customer to see how everything works together.
BUT.....Wally will beat the hell out of Target on the price.
The items themselves are not that different.
I’ve heard that Sam Walton used to ride with his drivers. He would knock on the door at the loading dock, and if the workers inside didn’t open the door quickly, heads would roll.