It is truly amazing that some folks cannot accept the opportunities offered to them.
My mentally disabled cousin has worked for Wal-Mart for 40 years plus. I’m so proud of him.
It has always been my understanding that the Walmart type, low level jobs, ‘Associates’, were meant to be a supplemental income. Not as a primary income to support a family. By raising the base pay, IMO, will raise the cost of their products. Pls correct me if I am wrong.
First I will question where does a city government get the authority to set wages for private entities.
Second I will question where the federal government gets the authority to set wages for private entities. I can think of no where in the constitution where this power is delegated to the federal government.
More demise of America.
How much longer will the country last? That is a serious question.
Walmart would encourage those who want to come out of bondage of the rat entitlement trap to a better brighter outlook. Walmart is the rat poison
Walmart is better off staying out of the District.
If they are smart they will get out now.
Washington DC is not like other places Walmart puts their stores.The labor force in DC is unlike any other.
Those who do not have Gubmint affirmative action jobs or haven’t got an SEIU job are unemployable.,
I get so tired of this.
Yes, the store will have 300 jobs that did not exist prior to the opening.
No, it will not lead to 300 more jobs being available in the retail sales field in the city. Since the sales of the new store will largely come from a reduction in sales by existing stores, the "new" jobs will be offset by loss of jobs elsewhere.
Since WalMart is by definition more efficient at selling, with greater sales per employee than most other stores, there might over the first year or so be an actual reduction in total retail sector jobs.
Walmart is also renowned for paying lower wages and keeping most employees on a part-time basis. Creating the possibility that the total city retail wages might go down.
This is offset by the probable fact that some people presently leave DC to shop at Walmarts elsewhere. So I agree it's complicated. I just disagree that a new retail store will add a net 300 jobs to the local economy.
Oy. So get on the metro and go to VA or MD if you want to go to wally world.
Not saying that I agree with the DC government (I use that term very loosely). But if wally world is such a mecca for the poor that the authors make it out to be, it’s not like it’s cross country journey to go to one.
Democrats doing what they do best — acting stupidly.
I remember years ago when some Wal-Marts had meat departments. Where they actually had butchers cutting meat.
Well, guess what, those butchers tried to unionize. What did Wal-Mart do?
They closed ALL of their meat departments and told the unions to F**K OFF!
If only Wal-Mart had the balls to stop withholding and tell the IRS to stick it up their asses. Now THAT would be a dagger through the heart.
Of course it hurts the poor; that’s the plan. The more they hurt the poor, the more powerful Progressives become.
Walmart needs to follow the same model for the Washington, DC area — build its stores just outside the DC limits. If you build it there, the employees and customers will come.
They want to hurt the poor - it’s how they maintain power over them. Kick them in the teeth, then blame the eeeevull conservatives. They have managed to make most of the poor stupid enough to buy in without question.