Posted on 01/23/2024 5:39:40 PM PST by SeekAndFind
$17.50 is what a regular WalMart “associate” makes, not their, or other, truck drivers.
I would think creating more relay-handoff routes and handoff depots could make it possible for more drivers to make it home at night.
But those trucks are ridiculously oversized next to a little sedan on the highway, so we really need them to have good drivers!
None in my town of 60k+, the larger cities on either side of us, or the bordering smaller towns we also border.
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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 remember when WALTON’S 5&10 was just a small store on the west side of the square in Bentonville AR. There was another 5&10 on the north side of the square. No one remembers them.
Sam did well.
There is a roundabout I go through a couple of times a week that is so small that full sized cars have to go over the curb. Large trucks just go straight over the center of the roundabout.
Wow!!
That’s insane.
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.
I thought the $17.50 per hour in the article was insanely low.
A friend works in short haul trucking. He was brought over from Eastern Europe by a company because they ran a fleet of European made trucks. He was familiar maintenance and repair having driven the same trucks in Europe.
Judging by his home there is absolutely no way he’s only making $17.50 per hour. The company only does delivery locally so it’s not even long haul.
IIRC, getting to top rate here takes about 3 years so anyone who puts in the work can make a darn good paycheck.
Exactly....they’re including all sorts of folks in their math that have nothing to do with people driving semi’s
You have to bribe teenagers to get off the couch. They are lazy, indolent and cannot even give change without a calculator. Total morons. Drive up to a window, the bill is $19.27. You hand then a $20 bill, and $.27 cents. They look like a lizard on a rock in the sun. JUST GIVE ME A BUCK, Jeezus holy glixm.
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