Excellent article -- This statement really says is all:
"We want clean air, clean water, good living conditions, the best health care in the world. Yet we aren’t willing to pay for anything manufactured under those restrictions."
I am convinced that Walmart's business plan is to become the world's largest "company store." By keeping wages and prices low, Walmart pretty much guarantees that most of its 1.5 million employees can only afford to shop at Walmart, thereby retaining a large part of what Walmart pays out in wages within the Walmart economy.
Ever been accused of being cynical? Does Wal-Mart pay better than all those poor mom and pops they put out of business? You bet they do. By shopping at Wal-Mart, 100 million Americans every week are able to make their dollars buy more thereby increasing their standard of living. Many of them probably have a little extra cash leftover, thanks to Wal-Mart, to place into a 529 or an IRA so their kids get a better education and won't have to work at a lower wage job. The horror!
76% of all Wal-Mart's managers have come from the ranks of their hourly employees. Wal-Mart managers are well compensated for the retail industry. Wal-Mart employees are free to shop anywhere they like but why would anyone -- poor, middle class or wealthy -- want to pay more?
What the hell are you talking about.
I work at WAL~MART and I shop at other places as well,i.e. Fred Meyers,The Gab,Mervyns and so on and so forth. I buy my Groceries at Albertson's,Safeway and at the local Grocery store.
BTW,I have people working with me that worked for a Unionized retailer and they all say the are making the same amount of money as they did with the Union job and that they actually keep more of there money,because no DUES are taking out. You must be a Union lackey.