Dislike of Walmart is not liberal or socialist. They have built a tremendously efficient machine. But too much of anything is bad. They have to keep growing even though the market is saturated. Their customer service sucks, product quality is in the toilet and stores are dirty. Where they have most places beat is on price.
Their HQ knows what you bought within an hour of you paying for it. They can track you and your specific buying habits.
Sam built a great foundation but now its all about greed.
Indeed. I am a former Wal-Mart employee (note the past tense). Sam Walton must be spinning like a gyro right now as the bean-counters are running the shop in a way that Sam would never countenance.
Cases in point: This coming 4th of July week, employees are being cut back from 40 to 32 hours so when they get the holiday pay, the company only pays out for 40 hours. Eight hours x how many employees saves a bundle. NO overtime. If you are one minute over, your work week is cut a couple of hours. (The work hour is broken down to two decimal places and there is no second hand on the time clock. If you are caught standing in front of the time clock waiting to clock out, you are fired.)
Their "You're not an employee, you're an 'Associate' (friend, buddy, pal) now means you have the choice of vaseline or 3-in-One oil when they bend you over. Their open door policy is "Don't let it hit you in the butt when you leave." I left on amicable terms but others got told "this is your last day" or "if you don't like the policy, you can leave." And this is just not one store, according to some Lifers who checked around.
The B/S they are pulling would fill a book and sound like what some guys told me went on during the Depression. When service jobs are all that's available in these small town, you are threaded, i.e. screwed.