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Wal-Mart Asks Workers To Donate Food To Its Needy Employees
Business Insider ^ | 11/18/2013 | Ashley Lutz

Posted on 11/19/2013 8:04:27 AM PST by Responsibility2nd

A Cleveland Wal-Mart store is holding a food drive — for its own employees. 

"Please donate food items so associates in need can enjoy Thanksgiving dinner," reads a sign accompanied by several plastic bins.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer first reported on the food drive, which has sparked outrage in the area.

"That Wal-Mart would have the audacity to ask low-wage workers to donate food to other low-wage workers — to me, it is a moral outrage," Norma Mills, a customer at the store, told the Plain Dealer

 

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: charity; poverty; retail; walmart
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To: conservaKate
You have no idea what you are talking about. I spent 20 years in reatila management and I can state with authority that Wal Mart DOES pay a very competitive wage for retali work!

Your arguemnet against Walmart is just plain stupid. They offer low prices and attract low income shoppers...so that makes them bad? Get a grip. Go back to your Union Local and have a beer with your fellow trolls.

41 posted on 11/19/2013 9:19:14 AM PST by pgkdan
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To: SkyDancer

EXACTLY!!!


42 posted on 11/19/2013 9:20:15 AM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I smell a big union rat behind this story. Not saying it didn’t happen; but someone is pushing it and taking it out of perspective.
Another word for that is propaganda.


43 posted on 11/19/2013 9:24:10 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Under the Democrats; the Lincoln Memorial is closed; but the southern border is open)
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To: mountn man

thats what I mean, 20-24 hours at minimum wage. I’m not knocking Wal-Mart, I just find it ironic and strange.

With Obamacare in place, more of these kinds of boxes will show up in the very near future.


44 posted on 11/19/2013 9:26:39 AM PST by Farnsworth (Now playing in America: "Stupid is the new normal")
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To: mountn man
Nope, not a DU’er and I kinda resent the label. if half are part time, whats that, 20 hours?? at min wage...yeah thats living. If you're so schooled about Wally World, educate me.

Whats part time?
whats full time?
Whats part time benefits?
Whats full time benefits?

look, I'm not knocking Wal-Mart, but don't you think it's kind of sad that America's largest retailer has a box our to donate to it's employees? I find that very ironic.

45 posted on 11/19/2013 9:30:43 AM PST by Farnsworth (Now playing in America: "Stupid is the new normal")
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To: Farnsworth

They pay the wage their employees agreed to work for. Nothing sad about that.


46 posted on 11/19/2013 9:37:05 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Hugin

“Of course you will never hear about how much food Walmart donates to local food banks.”

Got any links proving that?


47 posted on 11/19/2013 9:38:37 AM PST by raybbr (I weep over my sons' future in this Godforsaken country.)
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To: fatima

A turkey is a lot of meat, that can feed a family for a couple of days, or one person a week of sandwiches


48 posted on 11/19/2013 9:39:01 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: raybbr

No, but I’ve seen it first hand.


49 posted on 11/19/2013 9:40:00 AM PST by Hugin ( More firepower1)
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To: mountn man

bump


50 posted on 11/19/2013 9:40:26 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Hugin

“No, but I’ve seen it first hand.”

Okay, I’ll take your word for it. I’ve honestly never heard of WalMart doing that.


51 posted on 11/19/2013 9:41:53 AM PST by raybbr (I weep over my sons' future in this Godforsaken country.)
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To: Farnsworth

It’s like restaurants expecting tips to the waiters.


52 posted on 11/19/2013 9:46:56 AM PST by Theodore R. (The grand pooh-bahs are flirting with Christie, but it's Jebbie's turn!" to LOSE!)
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To: Southern Magnolia
Lot of families have been hard hit by this economy, some more than others.

At least they're working. I'd rather donate to the Walmart employees, than some slacker living on other peoples' tax money.

53 posted on 11/19/2013 9:48:30 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: GeronL
Its Thanksgiving time. Turkeys are on sale. Along with many other things.

During the Holidays MANY things go on sale to their lowest prices all year. Time to buy up and stock up. Or buy up to help out others.

Turkeys go for as little as $0.49 a pound. Even if half of that is waste, that's still less than $1 per pound. And like you said, makes a lot of sandwiches with the left overs. Turkey soup is also great. Make some homemade bread or some Grands biscuits and you have a great INEXPENSIVE meal.

I don't need a turkey for our Thanksgiving dinner, but I might buy 1-2 and put them in the freezer for sometime later in the year. Roasted or deep fried turkey is good anytime.

54 posted on 11/19/2013 9:53:35 AM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Farnsworth
Why do they have needy employees then?

Because high winds blew the roof off their house.

Because they just lost a spouse.

Because one of the kids is sick.

Because their spouse was laid off.

Because their house burned.

Shall I go on?

I used to work for a closed union shop and every week we had someone collecting for some employee in need. They were making around $23 an hour and that was 20 years ago.

55 posted on 11/19/2013 9:55:50 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: conservaKate
Walmart’s entitled to make a profit. Just don’t feed me the line they pay their people a competitive wage. They don’t.


I'm no fan of Walmart and I try to avoid shopping there as much as possible. In this part of the country we have Winco which is also open 24/7 and is an employee owned pays a decent wage for retail.

I have always felt that their was a responsibility that went with being a consumer just as there are responsibilities to being a citizen. As mentioned before I think we sometimes need to make a conscious decision to support the kind of stores we want to see in our communities every dollar is a vote. There's a great passage John Bunyan's book “The Road to Hell” on the reason you shouldn't always buy at the lowest price or sell at the highest price.

However as for the strict economics, the conundrum here gets at the whole reason for the study of economics: scarcity. There just isn't enough to go around. In the market economics sense the employee is the seller of their labor and if they can find a better price for their labor. So in that sense if WalMart's wage weren't competitive no one would work there. So in the sense of whatever the market will bear it is competitive; or no one would sell Walmart their labor hours. If only life were that text book simple. In this economy, there are plenty of people who will take what they can get and if Walmart raises their wages either they have to hirer fewer people (keeping only the most productive employees)or they have to raise prices. So why are the liberals upset to find that these people on the bottom of labor market are in need of help. Are they mad they have a job and aren't on food stamps and welfare? Or are at least trying to work their way up instead of sitting at home surfing the web on their Obamaphone.

56 posted on 11/19/2013 9:56:54 AM PST by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Hmmmm, maybe they COULD enjoy Thanksgiving dinner if the executive scum in charge of the company weren't forcing them to WORK on Thanksgiving, in a never-ending one-ups-manship contest between greedy retailers.

Black Friday is no more. It's now Black Thanksgiving, and all WalMart's employees and many others in the retail industry are suffering for it so "shoppers" can get their cheap flat screen TVs and trample each other a day early.

57 posted on 11/19/2013 9:57:09 AM PST by MCH
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To: GeronL

of course...


58 posted on 11/19/2013 10:03:59 AM PST by Farnsworth (Now playing in America: "Stupid is the new normal")
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To: conservaKate

What is a competitive wage? The Murphy Express gas station or the Circle K?


59 posted on 11/19/2013 10:13:37 AM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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To: Responsibility2nd

What a concept....People helping each other, without the government getting involved.....Can’t have that, now can we?


60 posted on 11/19/2013 10:14:47 AM PST by dfwgator (Fire Muschamp.)
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