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 would agree. I think Walmart will continue to close stores whose sales and sales dollar volume will not support the higher wages>
Somehow, I missed the “April 19th” theory. Could you fill me in?
I hate to be in the dark, without my tinfoil.
“no one knows why”
Bull pucky. Walmart knows why.
And just where would WalBorg move its inventory to empty the buildings for inmates?
Interesting. Does Walmart have some important quarterly or annual results due to come out in the next six months? Because if so this could be an attempt to manipulate the corporate shrink figures.
I worked in that industry at one time. Was in a store with high shrink (go out to the parking lot, toss a rock in any direction, and it would have landed in a housing project). Corporate was always engaging in weird machinations to try and cover or explain our shrink. Window dressing for the stockholders.
Yep, couldn’t close those stores because it would be “racist”, right?
Yep. I’m not saying its detainement but put up a fence around the parking lot with a guard gate and bring in about 50 job johnnies and showers in an area inside the fence. Put up bunks and use the Subshop facility at the front door as a kitchen and you are in bidness.
Likely its union busting or they just need to close some stores because their bottom line is hurting.
4/19 is Patriots Day....Battle of Lexington and Concord was fought in 1775. Also the day that both the Waco assault and Oklahoma City Bombing took place.
Plus by weird coincidence I believe it is also Hitler’s birthday. So those who believe Waco and OK City were false flag events are always expecting the next one to drop on April 19.
But why would they publicly sit on the “plumbing problems” meme if that’s not the case. Telling the public that they’re closing stores due to financial hardship is not something we’re unaccustomed to hearing. It’s not a truth that’s hard to swallow. Telling people there are plumbing problems at individual stores across the country while not even having permits pulled makes the public suspicious.
Something is def. going on, even if it’s something deviously simple.
Yep. So, one wonders if they have plans for new stores in more business-friendly locales close to these stores. And then there’s the re-staffing implicit I with that. Need popcorn.
If you can name the author and book, I’d love to know.
It’ll take some digging.
If I don’t get back to you today, ping me next week.
What theory is that?
Some are saying the economy may collapse in September.
OkeeDokee.
>>If the government is looking for windowless detention facilities, there are hundreds of abandoned and near-empty malls in this country.
Walmart stores have very limited access. Start counting all the exterior doors on a typical mall and then look at a Walmart. Plus. A Walmart store is a huge open building with high ceilings where the mall is a maze of hallways, corners, and interior walls. You could control thousands in a Walmart with a relatively small number of guards with very few modifications to the store.
I grew up in Pico Rivera... question...are all these stores in heavily Hispanic illegals areas?. I know Pico is...
Thanks. Now I remember that theory. Getting on, as they say, and becoming a tad forgetful.
no need for stores. most of the population can be corralled by controlling a few dozen key bridges, tunnels and passes
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