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Wal-Mart to Hire Up to 150,000 in China
AP ^ | 3/20/06

Posted on 03/20/2006 11:39:15 AM PST by iPod Shuffle

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1 posted on 03/20/2006 11:39:16 AM PST by iPod Shuffle
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To: iPod Shuffle
Hiring 150,000 employees for a total salary of about $500k per year!

Guess the article doesn't mention the age of those 150,000 workers, does it...
2 posted on 03/20/2006 11:43:59 AM PST by TucsonJames
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To: iPod Shuffle; Gabz

Is it Saturday already? *Smirk*


3 posted on 03/20/2006 11:44:55 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: iPod Shuffle

Think there will be protests by non-employess re: job benefits over there?


4 posted on 03/20/2006 11:46:15 AM PST by synbad600
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To: TucsonJames
Hiring 150,000 employees for a total salary of about $500k per year!

Wal-Mart approves (labor) unions in China
For Wal-Mart, unions are made in China, too: Why aren't U.S. workers worthy of same organizing?

5 posted on 03/20/2006 11:49:48 AM PST by Willie Green (Throw the bums out!!! ............ALL OF THEM.)
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To: iPod Shuffle

How does one say in Mandarin 'Welcome to Wal-mart. Would y'all like a cart?'


6 posted on 03/20/2006 11:56:13 AM PST by pikachu (Be alert --we need more lerts!)
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To: iPod Shuffle

It will be a lot cheaper for Wal-Mart' to get their inventory at the source.


7 posted on 03/20/2006 11:59:47 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: iPod Shuffle

Why isn't Maryland getting those jobs?


8 posted on 03/20/2006 12:15:25 PM PST by agere_contra
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To: Toddsterpatriot; Mase; expat_panama

How can this be? I thought Wal-Mart is a subversive element in the U.S.?


9 posted on 03/20/2006 12:17:27 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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Trade is a two way street. Just think of the thousands of American suppliers that will now have their products displayed to a billion Chinese folks.
10 posted on 03/20/2006 12:18:28 PM PST by PJammers (I can't help it... It's my idiom!)
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To: iPod Shuffle

Is it called "Great Wal-mart" in China?


11 posted on 03/20/2006 12:20:15 PM PST by wolfcreek
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To: 1rudeboy
How can this be? I thought Wal-Mart is a subversive element in the U.S.?

You can make jokes all you want Rude, but if they keep outsourcing thier sales to Chinese workers pretty soon you're going to have to drive all the way to China to buy cheap Chinese knock-offs.

Then you'll be sorry!!!!

12 posted on 03/20/2006 12:37:06 PM PST by expat_panama
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To: 1rudeboy
How can this be?

Indeed. I've been told on FR that no American company can do business in China unless they are majority owned by the Chicom government. Of course, since China supplies 100% of Wal-Mart's products it's like they're a Chinese company already anyway. (ignorance off)

13 posted on 03/20/2006 12:37:09 PM PST by Mase
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To: Diana in Wisconsin; Mrs.Nooseman; bfree; Graybeard58; CSM; metesky; wanderin; sitetest; ...
Is it Saturday already? *Smirk*

ROFL.........WalMart Ping!!!!!!!!!

14 posted on 03/20/2006 12:43:04 PM PST by Gabz (Smokers are the beta version)
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To: Gabz

Glad to see that you are still above ground. Haven't heard from you lately.

Wal-Mart is expanding in China? I would say that it's time to buy more Wal-Mart stock. China is a huge market, sounds like good business to me.


15 posted on 03/20/2006 12:48:24 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: Graybeard58

I was out of town and computer deprived a good bit last week.

Sounds like a good business decision to me as well.


16 posted on 03/20/2006 12:58:01 PM PST by Gabz (Smokers are the beta version)
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To: PJammers

" Just think of the thousands of American suppliers that will now have their products displayed to a billion Chinese folks."

Oops....I must have missed those flying pigs....


17 posted on 03/20/2006 1:12:07 PM PST by OpusatFR
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To: iPod Shuffle

900 million Chinese walk in to a McDonalds and they all order the #5 Extra Value meal.
The manager comes out front to talk to them and says,
"Gee, we don't see many Chinese in here."

"And with this atmosphere of hedonistic individualism capitalistically exploiting the labor of the masses and wasting the People's agricultural resources,"
say the Chinese,
"you won't see many more."


18 posted on 03/20/2006 1:36:20 PM PST by tumblindice (Running dogs & paper tigers, stooges and lackeys of bourgeois capitalistic vampires. Any openings?)
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To: pikachu
"How does one say in Mandarin 'Welcome to Wal-mart. Would y'all like a cart?'"

Huanyin guanglin Woerma! Nimen xuyao yiliang tuiche ma?
19 posted on 03/20/2006 1:38:29 PM PST by okie73104
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To: 1rudeboy; A. Pole
I thought Wal-Mart is a subversive element in the U.S.?

I wonder if Marx would approve? Let's ask A.Pole.

20 posted on 03/20/2006 1:38:45 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Why are protectionists so bad at math?)
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