Posted on 11/19/2013 8:04:27 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
"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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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.
EXACTLY!!!
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.
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.
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.
They pay the wage their employees agreed to work for. Nothing sad about that.
“Of course you will never hear about how much food Walmart donates to local food banks.”
Got any links proving that?
A turkey is a lot of meat, that can feed a family for a couple of days, or one person a week of sandwiches
No, but I’ve seen it first hand.
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“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.
It’s like restaurants expecting tips to the waiters.
At least they're working. I'd rather donate to the Walmart employees, than some slacker living on other peoples' tax money.
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.
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.
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.
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.
of course...
What is a competitive wage? The Murphy Express gas station or the Circle K?
What a concept....People helping each other, without the government getting involved.....Can’t have that, now can we?
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