Posted on 04/17/2015 8:51:24 AM PDT by cotton1706
The closures could last up to six months and affect roughly 2,200 workers in Texas, California, Oklahoma, and Florida, CNN Money reports.
Wal-Mart employees say they were completely blindsided by the news, having been notified only a couple hours before the stores closed at 7 p.m. Monday.
"Everybody just panicked and started crying," Venanzi Luna, a manager at a store in Pico Rivera, California, told CNN Money.
All workers will receive paid leave for two months. After that, full-time workers could become eligible for severance, according to CNN Money. But part-time workers will be on their own.
Local officials and employees have questioned Wal-Mart's reasoning for the closures.
According to ABC News, "no plumbing permits have been pulled in any of the five cities where the stores were suddenly closed for at least six months."
A city official in Pico Rivera confirmed to CBS Los Angeles that the city has not received any permit requests for building repairs.
In Midland, Texas, where another store was closed, a city official told ABC News that his plumbing inspector was turned away when he visited the store and offered to help secure construction permits.
Wal-Mart plumbing technician Codi Bauer, who worked at the now shuttered store in Brandon, Florida, questioned the company's time frame for the repairs.
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I like to use the phrase “corrupt store” meaning everyone from management on down. Too many employees to investigate not to mention fighting with NLRB on firings and what not. Easier to just shut it down and rehire 6 months later.
It doesn't make any sense.
It's just plain nutty.
If for no other reason than there is plenty of vacant retail space in SoCal.
I heard an interview with an author - could have been the one you’re talking about, who was a DC “insider” and was giving away the stuff they “knew but weren’t talking about” in a novel format.
If using closed Wal Mart facilities for detention centers is the best the plotters can come up with, we don’t have to worry about them.
Currently, my ‘06 Toyota costs 22.37 cents per mile to drive (gas, maintenance, repairs. Makes shopping online an option.
Guess what — it’s nobody’s business.
That would kinda have to be the case.
If it were only one employee and the management found out about it, AND the management wasn’t corrupt too,
they’d just fire them.
But a whole store of corruption, I can see that too.
After all, we have Detroit as an example.
Many local communities treat Walmart as the golden goose to tax and to permit the hell out of it. Their scam inspectors are in Walmart more than a regular employee, figuring out new ways to scam Walmart for more money besides the enormous sales taxes and property taxes paid each quarter/year by Walmart.
About a decade ago, Walmart closed a big store in a backrupt city run by libs and opened an even bigger store a few miles away in a different county/city.
Good employees were give the opportunity to go to the new store. Which has been a huge success.
Apparently, due to the fees/demands by the city/county where the original store was, made Walmart to make the decision to close that store and move to a friendly city/county.
I can state categorically that one of the stores closed under the “Plumbing Premise” is as low as a store can be.
This Ghetto Mart is a dangerous place to go. Hookers all over the place, strip joints and who knows what else.
I figured, the pipes were full of guns, needles, and fetus’s.
T-minus 2 days via the April 19th theory....
Have it shipped to your local Walmart and skip the shipping fee, combine the pick up with normal shopping, like picking ups some milk and eggs and groceries.
If the government is looking for windowless detention facilities, there are hundreds of abandoned and near-empty malls in this country.
One of the store closed was the first to protest Wal-Mart wages back in 2012, per Drudge.
Exactly, employees and customers are simply stealing all the profits and more.
Meanwhile where we live, they have just built a second walmart close enough to shoot a rifle to the other, and both parking lots are full.
Yes, it could be a "shot across the bow" to employee protesters. As in "if there are any problems at your location, then YOU may find yourself on the street".
Here’s the clue:
https://www.google.com/#q=dfw+walmart+employee+theft
Well, if this is true, I’m gonna post up at the bakery!
Hadn’t read any theories that presented dates, but given the recent news stories about the guard in CA and ISIS in Mexico, I’m not surprised.
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