[lewislynn]

So if Costco's stock price has risen 10% in the last twelve months(and beating WM) at the same time giving their employees respectible wages and decent health care coverage what is wrong with that?

Giving their employees respectible wages and decent health care coverage no longer fits the "capitalist" mold.

True capitalists like WalMart hire illegals at below legal wages sometimes locking them in the buildings to work and all to line the shareholder pockets AND Costco isn't on the RNC list of false idols to worship.

[wrathof59]

My grandson works at wal-mart, he's a 4th generation American citizen.

He's not an illegal,he's an American citizen, and he likes working there.

You have the dumbest post on this thread, you have been watching too much MSNBC.

[Gabz]

You really don't know what you are talking about, doing you?

[Irish Queen]

My gosh, where did your information that illegal workers are imprisoned in Wal-Mart stores? The starting wage for entry level employees is around $7.40. But there are quarterly pay raises for everyone, storewide and department bonuses, and extra pay raises for outstanding individual workers.

Last night on "Without A Trace" the missing person worked at fictional Mega-store called EveryMart. The wages were so low that the lowly employees had to clean houses, be drug runners or sleep with the boss to support themselves and their families. And the only place they could live was in run-down, drug infested rent by the week motels. The heroine of the story became a drug runner to avoid the hearing aid her little boy needed. In real life, that young mother would probably have been provided the need hearing aid through one of WalMarts special programs.

I live in Nevada, near Carson City. There is very little unemployment in the area, what with all the businesses fleeing California's high taxes and mindless regulations. Plus there are lots of employment opportunities in in Casinos and hotels. A new Walmart is being opened on the north end of Carson City. And some of my neighbors are eager to quit their present jobs (hotel desk clerk, teacher aide) to work at Walmart. If the conditions at WalMart were poor, the employees at WalMarts around here would vote with their feet and could easily find work somewhere else.