[Captain Peter Blood]

I just started working at Wal-Mart about two months ago. I find it a very interesting place to work.
Wal-Mart's pay is a little low at the beginning but if you work hard and do right you get raises and can move up.
I get a raise after my initial three months and I can see right now that if you want to move up into management or whatever there are opportunities to do so.
Tell one company where you start out with real high wages.
Wal-Mart is now the whipping boy whereas Sears was the whipping boy for some of the same things 35 years ago and of course Sears for the most part is history.
If Wal-Mart doesn't keep innovating and staying on the cutting edge it to will become a dinosaur and vanish.
Capitalism is by it's nature a wave of destruction as one economist put it many years ago.

[takbodan]

My wife works at Walmart and is treated very well. There are opportunities for advancement, a good choice of health insurance, 401K, stock etc. These are benefits that the local mom and pop stores downtown never could offer. Walmart is the retail version of the New York Yankees. The Yankees are the premier baseball franchise. People either hate them or love them.

[FreedomCalls]

Tell one company where you start out with real high wages.

There are a lot of busted dot-coms that are no longer in business that started you out with real high wages.

[Hmmmm .... thinking about the implications of that .... ]

Oh never mind!

[gogipper]

Good post, thanks!

[dcwusmc]

Actually, Sears was becoming a dinosaur until it looked at itself and did a complete makeover. Now they are VERY dynamic and growing. Third largest retailer now, with the merger with K-Mart; fifth prior to that...

[Kaslin]

Tell one company where you start out with real high wages.

You do if your name is Chelsea Clinton. Remember she started out at $250,000 per year a few years ago

[RandallFlagg]

Tell one company where you start out with real high wages.

Coors.
But I busted my a$$ getting in there.