Must be up in Blue states. I don’t see any bare shelves here in Georgia.
I don’t see widespread bare shelves here (Western PA), but I’m finding that a lot of the items I go to Walmart for are out of stock when I visit.
Why work at Wal-Mart when you can enjoy a higher standard of living by sponging off the government dole.
Head-fake to make you think a carbon tax is a good idea.
I will just have to take your word for it. You couldn’t drag me into a walmart.
Go to Target now since Wal-Mart started searching my wife every time she leaves with an item that has no bag. They never do it to me for some reason, but the Wal-Mart here stinks due to staffing issues anyway.
Target costs a little more, maybe a buck or two for the total trip. Well worth it to actually not have to wait in line at checkout for 20 minutes.
Maybe they are haveing a problem hiring people that only want to work 28 hours/week, ie part time no health insurance.
I could see this as a problem in states that have a lower unemployment rate like NH.
I avoid Walmart because they have always understaffed their stores and I do not like to wait in like for 15 minutes just to buy something. The worst are their superstores where it takes 20+ minutes just to check out your groceries.
I can’t comment on Walmart per se, but the Gov’t certainly does pay people not to work.
And on the flip-side, Gov’t also encourages most companies not to hire - particularly in manufacturing. Everything from OSHA, to Obamacare, to liability and worker’s comp tort law. People want jobs to “come back” - they will not, particularly for relatively low-tech jobs.
This came up the other day so I went to walmart at lunchtime to pickup some things for the office. The store was completely stocked on the shelves and had excessive overflow of items on pallets in the aisles. Only the ammo cabinets were empty. There were 7 lanes open. Lots of floor workers helping customers as well. They are now out of breakfast blend coffee though because I bought 8 bags.
Perhaps Wal Mart could save some bucks so as to hire more folks if they did one simple thing (per observations I and friends have had all over the country):
They never have more than two or three cashiers on duty - EVER - so sell the rest of those useless cash registers.
Only bare shelves in Arkansas are ammo.
Problem: Shortage of cheap labor.
What could possibly be the solution?
Economics 101? Raise wages?
Nah. Raise labor supply! Immigration! Naturalization! Dream Act! Health care and food stamp costs passed to the taxpayer, because God forbid, God forbid, the Walmart shopper should pay 10 cents more for a bottle of shampoo!
The ammo shelves are the only ones bare at the Walmart in Cedar Park.
I hate Wal-mart... Nasty people work there. If it wasn’t for Wal-mart ugly people wouldn’t have a job.
I’ve noticed that all the stores who carry yarn have been cutting back on that section. I’ve starting going on line and ordering through the various stores’ web sites. Otherwise, I can’t get enough of one color or dye lot to do my projects.
In the 14k population town I live in, Walmart basically owned the general shopping. Then, they moved of a semi-Super store.
Since it was a new 24-hour one, I shopped there a few times in the early hours — around 3-4 a.m. That didn’t last long. At that time, they were changing out the meats section. So, no fresh meats were available.
I changed to shopping around 6 a.m. Meats section was replenished, but only 1 check-out was open. One morning, for example, I counted 8 sets of customers with full carts, all waiting on that one checker.
I changed to around 8:30 a.m. One time I noticed there there was only one set of produce bags for the entire produce section. I asked the guy who was stocking why they didn’t have more bags. He said something nonsensical about the set of bags were centrally located. [Now, I notice they do have sets of bags at the end of each counter. I guess others complained, too.]
Now, if I want something from the deli (roasted or fried chicken, for example), I know not to go in before 10 a.m.
I tend to go to Walmart maybe 3-4 times a year for ‘general’ merchandise.
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When Walmart moved to the Superstore on the extreme edge of town, they left the former area without much of any thing. Since then, a Dollar Tree, a Dollar General Store, a Family Dollar, a Walgreens, and a ranch & farm store have moved in to fill the gap. Those stores tend to have less traffic, but they do enough to stay in business. Every dollar they get is one Walmart used to get when Walmart was basically the only store in town.
This story is Bloomberg propaganda designed to create a false impression of a labor shortage. It doesn’t seem possible with high unemployment.
If only we would give the poor immigrants amnesty, then we would have cheap workers like maybe the ones Bloomberg employs.
MIT retail researcher Zeynep Ton
Poonam Goyal, a Bloomberg Industries senior analyst
End Welfare! - and you’ll see the applications come rolling in...then again, I don’t know if I would want these people working anywhere near me...I remember in Logan WV when they opened the first WalMart down there — the employees were taking shipments off of delivery trucks - and then moving them right over to their own trucks - theft was so bad they almost went bankrupt — they had to bring in “outside” employees for months until they could hire trustworthy local employees...
I’m in IL and no big fan of Walmart but I see zero evidence any of this is true.