Propaganda by the unions. If WM was so bad, the employees would have already unionized.
Well, every time Wal-Mart opens a new Supercenter, they seem to find an awful lot of applicants, way more than they have positions for. And the pay scale must not be all that out of sync with the rest of the local businesses in the locations they choose to set up at.
All the local grocery stores seem to go into a sort of shock, when their employees, mostly unionized, leave and take their expertise to the checkout lanes of Wal-Mart, where their pay scale may be just a little BETTER than the union-negotiated wages where they were before.
That is how Henry Ford kept the UAW out of his plants for years, by paying the line workers maybe a nickel an hour more than the negotiated wages that had been won by the UAW in their negotiations with Hudson, Chrysler, Studebaker, General Motors, Packard, and a number of other automobile and truck manufacturing corporations that are no longer in business.
Unions do NOT work in the interests of their members. They have become a political action committee cash generation agency.
I’ve been in Walmart, and still go many times ... to grab just specific name-brand items that I can get cheaper ... i.e. “cherry-picking” select items only.
So, I do know about Walmart, from direct experience ... and I gotta say they are the worst kind of retailer that exists in the marketplace, in that category of business. They hire absolute MISFITS to work in that place and those workers there could care less about the customer. They basically don’t have customer service skills.
I just get in and then out as quick as I can, hoping no one sees me in such a trashy place. If I can just snarf just certain name-brand commodity items, that’s all I care about. I would never touch their off-brand stuff, as it’s absolute crap, from what I’ve seen from another relative who has gotten some of it before.
If it’s a Walmart brand, don’t bother ... it’s trash.
I don’t get other things there, as I have no intention of filling Walmart’s money coffers with a full shopping basket ... just because I happen to grab something else that is “name-brand” (thereby sold on its own merits and not Walmart’s merits).
When I leave Walmart after grabbing a couple of items, I feel like I have to take a shower to get the “dregs of humanity’s smell” off me, from those defects they hire as employees. I don’t know how some of those workers even manage to live in real life.
As far as even being able to keep things in stock ... I’ve never seen a worse store in my life (and I’m talking about 50+ years of seeing other places). They will have some name-brand item there one week, and then for the next six weeks ... it’s nowhere to be found. You might have some name-brand product that has a selection of (let’s say) six varieties. But Walmart doesn’t ever bother keeping any of the varieties “in place” ... so it’s hit or miss on what will be there for the next two months.
They’ve got “holes” on their shelves which will stay that way, sometimes for several weeks, and then eventually, another product will “cover the hole ... and maybe two months later, the original product will show up again.
Afterwards, I will go to another “normal” and well-run store, just so I don’t continue to feel so depressed, considering that I just came out of Walmart. Then in the other “normal” store ... I see that there really does exist normal workers, who know customer service, and even know how to talk intelligently to you. My spirits are even uplifted in the normal store by even the customers who are walking around in the store. They are actually normal people and not the majority of misfits as I see in Walmart, shopping.
Going to Walmart is like going to some third-world country ... you might visit there, but you can’t wait to get out. You’re always happy to leave Walmart and get back to normal again.
Those announcing the death of Wal-Mart...are premature. They're a healthy, smart retailer continuing to invest in a down economy and setting themselves up to grow. They view their competition very simply: Amazon. WMT is working on being more of a distribution company than retailer and this will also serve them well.
My aunt as an employee at the lowest part of the totem pole-—receives stock options every year.
Her stock performs amazingly well. Seriously. She’s a part-timer BTW so where is this BS that these employees are ‘victims’?
This is union propaganda. I was reading it and the first thing they said about Costco was about their pay and benefits - as if this had anything to do with consumer preference. That raised a red flag of where this was coming from.
WalMart is hated by socialists but loved but 100+ million shoppers in the US