State can't overlook store that undersells(more Lib whining about mean old Wal-Marts)

Baltimore Sun ^ | Nov 25, 2005 | Michael Olesker

[Phantom Lord]

I also deduce that he is likely full of it. If there is no Wal-Mart near him, why did he drive all the way to Wal-Mart for one item, the ear protection?

Do no stores between his home and Wal-Mart sell them? Was Wal-Mart's price so much lower that he drove all the way to Wal-Mart to buy them? Or did he make the whole thing up?

[MeanWestTexan]

I deduced from that that he is the epitome of a liberal who thinks he is better than common folk who do things like hunting or working for a living.

[samtheman]

No problem. The stupidity of liberals is vast. There's room for much repitition.

[ElkGroveDan]

That translates into a total annual welfare bill of $2.5 billion for the company's 1.2 million U.S. employees. "

But if it were true, it would be a good argument as to just how expensive government health care is now, and how expensive it could get if expanded as the leftists all want.

[goldstategop]

He must resent mixing it up with the masses. Kinda like Kerry being forced to hunt. It looks so contrived.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[cryptical]

As of last year, the average pay of a Wal-Mart sales clerk was about $14,000 a year - about $1,000 a year below the government's definition of the poverty level for a family of three.

Riight, that's usually because the average Wal-Mart clerk is an uneducated part-time worker.

But it's $1,500 above the level for a family of two, and $4,700 above the level for a single person. I love how they cherry-pick the stats, they should have gone for the standard family of four, which looks even worse.

Maybe they're saying that women should stay at home and tend the kids, so they can't contribute from a part-time job?

[FormerLib]

...those heavy-duty earplugs that hunters wear so they won't be deafened by the thunderclaps of their weapons when they're pulverizing wild animals.

They oughta put this guy's picture next to the definition for "Sissy Mary!"

[discostu]

I would. I predicted Wards was on the way out in the early 90s when they remodeled the one here in sanitarium grey, then they made most of the doors emergency only exits to heighten the feeling of being trapped against your will and gosh if the customers just didn't stop coming. My last transaction at Wards was to steal a manual for my microwave, I bought it from them the weekend before but it didn't have a manual, so I came with my receipt to see if I could just get a manual for it (microwave worked fine but it had lots of goofy settings I wanted to read before trying). 5 minutes of wandering around the appliance section without getting so much as a hello from an employee later I decided to open the door on the floor model, found it had a manual, took the manual and never went there again. That was 96, obviously Wards was on the way out.

[goldstategop]

If they force Wal-mart to pay the benefits, the money has to come from somewhere. Guess from where.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[jrg]

As of last year, the average pay of a Wal-Mart sales clerk was about $14,000 a year - about $1,000 a year below the government's definition of the poverty level for a family of three.

Riight, that's usually because the average Wal-Mart clerk is an uneducated part-time worker.

We aren't far away from eliminating the sales clerk entirely. RFID tags on merchandise (when the tag prices get low enough), a portal to run your shopping cart through (which reads all the RFID tags and rings up your bill) and you pay with your ATM card.

[Blood of Tyrants]

They sold guns, too. You could get surplus weapons for a pittance.

[Lokibob]

My latest survey of wal mart vs union groc store:
                     WM                     Union
LLoyds  bbq 3.48                         5.75
bread            0.99                         2.59

 

Now guess who is paying those union wages:

 

Grocery store or the customer?

[7thson]

It's Bush's fault!

That's what they would say, without missing a beat.

[cryptical]

If they force Wal-mart to pay the benefits, the money has to come from somewhere. Guess from where.

They're going to raise the price of the 100 round Winchester white box, so I can't shoot as much?

Bastards!

[7thson]

And why did Wal Mart get so big? Because chains such as Sears and Woolworth forgot their customers. As big as Sears is and for what they have, they should be number 1. Yet, their crappy service tends to drive people away.

[AmusedBystander]

Wal-mart is a first employer for single individuals or a second employer for retirees looking for a second income. But liberals aren't bothered by the truth are they? They should take their pointy heads of the hole and look and see what's happening to GM!

I agree. I wish the media would look at the Targets, Sears, JCP, etc and make a fair comparison. Wal-Mart probably pays more than any of these other "little" retailers for their hourly wage earners plus they offer very good health coverage for what they ask the employee to pay and they have store bonuses that are divied up among ALL employees and not just upper management.

[domenad]

I reach back to my good friend and talk show host Neal Boortz for guidance on this one. If you are incapable of making more than $14k a year, what the hell are you doing with a family of three? What business do you have spitting out kids? I make close to $50k, and my wife another $35K, I'm still not sure we can afford kids for crying out loud!

[HEY4QDEMS]

I have a flaming lib neighbor who always gloats when a big company is being sued or is faultering. She really want's to see WalMart go down.

I once told her to go to WalMart and meet the people who work there and quietly take notice of how many of them are wearing wedding rings, if any female employees are pregnant, etc.. I told her to imagine that these people have wives and husbands and that some are single mothers and then really decide if seeing WalMart go down will make her happy.

She never responded but I think I made my point.

[randog]

I do not shop at Wal-Mart for a couple of reasons....

How shrill will this whiny prick's squeal be when he finds out that his wife buys his underwear at Wal*Mart.

"Well, honey, if you didn't ruin them with skid marks I'd buy you the expensive stuff..."

[Young Scholar]

For a 200-employee Wal-Mart store, the report said, the government spends $108,000 a year for children's health care

That would be to care for what? The hundreds of children Wal-Mart doesn't employ? It's hard for me to see why it's Wal-Mart's responsibility that many of its employees have children they can't afford.

But also because of the ambivalence that so many of us feel about this corporate behemoth whose revenues are now an astonishing 2 percent of the entire U.S. gross domestic product and whose dominance of the business world is now larger than GE, Ford, GM and IBM combined and eight times larger than Microsoft's.

That sentence alone shows that this guy has no clue what he's talking about. Total revenues are not equal to "dominance of the business world." Wal-Mart may bring in more revenue than Microsoft, but it's in a cutthroat industry, and if it raised prices it would imediately (in some communities, it might take several years) find itself vulnerable to competition. Microsoft, on the other hand, commands a far more solid position in its industry.