um sorry, but you don’t know what you’re talking about. It has nothing to do w/ union scale. There are retailers who are not union and pay their employees a really good wage, with great benefits and treat employees in a fair manner. COSTCO, Trader Joe’s and WINCO...to name some local area retailers.
Walmart’s business model is to attract lower income customers...no one said that was a bad thing. What is not such a great thing is that they pay so poorly that their employees rely on state assistance. THAT’s the bad thing. Why are tax payers bailing out a retailer who has the ability and profitability to pay a decent wage? I do not wish my tax dollars to pay $$ because a large private company hasn’t figured out how to provide benefits to their employees.
Again you're wrong and in way over your head. You don't know enough about Free market conservatism to carry your trolling any further. It is NOT Walmart's duty or responsibility to ensure that it's employees sustain themselves. It is there responsibility to pay for work received...and if that part time single mother with five baby daddies can't afford to buy a flat screen TV working part time as a cashier I don't see that as wal Mart's fault.
What's your solution? A mandatory "Living Wage"? If you think that tax dollars that are redistributed to the poor are a subsidy to Walmart you really are at the wrong site.
Do a little research before you spew. Tell me what Walmart's profit is. Tell me the profit return percentage. Tell me, using those numbers how much Walmart could add to their employees pay or benefits?
My buddy's wife has been at Walmart for over 20 years. For over 10 years she has been making just over $20 an hour.
You're the one with that problem.
What do you consider "a really good wage,..?"
COSTCO, Trader Joe’s and WINCO...to name some local area retailers.
That's YOUR local area, which is not everyone else's. Where I live the poultry processing plants always had the best wages and benefits for low/unskilled work.........UNTIL WalMart came into the area. Now they get the people that can't get a job at WalMart.
What is not such a great thing is that they pay so poorly that their employees rely on state assistance.
Before you start busting on the private sector, I suggest you check into how many people who work for the government, including many in the military, also rely on state assistance.
I do not wish my tax dollars to pay $$ because a large private company hasn’t figured out how to provide benefits to their employees.
Hate to burst your nonsensical bubble - but it is NOT the responsibility of any business to provide anything to anyone other than what an employee agrees to or a customer agrees to pay.
If the employees are really upset, they will rise up (not 100 of them out of 2 million). When Walmart has large-scale discontent, they will have to pay more money to make their employees less discontented, because you need employees to at least not be unhappy in order to provide reasonable service, which you need to grow your business.
COSTCO has an entirely different business model. They do stores in high-volume higher wage areas. They charge membership to keep out “unwelcome” elements. And a lot of rich people like that. And they buy fewer items, but in large quantities, giving them a fairly low cost profile, even taking into account the membership fees.
And they have the business you can get from the people who are attracted to that model. Walmart has the business of people who are willing to brave anything to get what they think are cheaper goods.
I’m not a fan of shopping at Walmart — I’m willing to spend a bit more to shop at a cleaner, brighter store. My wife buys groceries at Walmart though, along with a lot of other things.
I have a part-time job as a haunt monster at a theme park, we get $8 an hour plus a hazard premium, and a bump for returning from the previous year. Nobody would live on that wage. So it’s a lot of kids in college (it is great pay for those kids), kids who haven’t had jobs before, and people like me looking for a fun thing to do for a month.
If the company had to pay $15 an hour, they’d employ 30% less of us, and then they’d be in a downward spiral, because the scares wouldn’t be as good, so people would stop coming, so they’d have less money. As it is, if there’s some bad weather, they start telling people not to show up for work sometimes, because you can’t pay more in wages than you take in gate receipts.