I walmart evil?

[Bob Klase]

Your point? I return it for a refund. I still haven't got one. Big whoop. I don't buy things I don't have a use for.

The point is that Home Depot and other stores have a counter right at the front door for people to return that don't work. What's the difference between them and Walmart?

I find your completely irate intrangence very puzzling, to say the least. You don't imagine you're convincing me to go to Walmart, do you?

Shop whereever you want. I don't care if you ever go to Walmart. If you want make complaints about Walmart like "sometimes people buy things at Walmart that are defective", then show how that's worse than buying something at a different store (one you do like) that's defective.

I could complain that this forum is bad because it has moderators that sometimes edit or delete posts. Even if that's bad, it makes this forum no different than others with moderators that edit or delete posts.

 

[jj]

Absolutely.

Then you are speaking formally for Walmart?

Please publically confirm your authority to do so.

 

[webfusion]

JJ, you are banned from all WalMart stores forever ...

jj -- Here is an official picture of me. Is this sufficient proof of my authority?

 

[jj]

jj -- Here is an official picture of me. Is this sufficient proof of my authority?

No, it's not. Please comply.

 

[webfusion]

On behalf of all WalMart stores worldwide ---

JJ ,, you're just 'persona non-grata' and I urge you to stay away ---That is really the only way we can make good on our motto: "Satisfaction Guaranteed"
As long as you remain outside our stores, we'll fulfill that promise to you.

In compliance with my Supreme Smiley Authority, here is your new WalMart Card. Present it at the door to our greeter, and I'll guarantee you don't get in!

 

[jj]

JJ ,, you're just 'persona non-grata' and I urge you to stay away ---That is really the only way we can make good on our motto: "Satisfaction Guaranteed"
As long as you remain outside our stores, we'll fulfill that promise to you.

In compliance with my Supreme Smiley Authority, here is your new WalMart Card. Present it at the door to our greeter, and I'll guarantee you don't get in!

Your failure to comply is noted. Btw, are those ugly anti-walmart stickers copyrighted?

 

[webfusion]

Have no idea.
Ask the AFL-CIO local 338.
They are the ones who offer the unhappy-faced opinion that WalMart is a bad neighbor.

And I can bet they change their tune in a flash if WalMart ever became unionized! Then WalMart would be the shining happy face for the community!

 

[WildCat]

Presumably they now don't so travel, and presumably that cost jobs at those distant outlets. If the WalMart has diverted enough custom to support 350 jobs, it may have cost as many elsewhere. The headline figure is misleading.

Actually, my figure was way off. According to the Chicago Tribune, there were 25,000 applicants for 350 jobs. All but 500 of the applicants lived in Chicago. And those jobs had health plans, dental, and 401(k). Evergreen Park increased their tax base by over $1 million, it's a small town so that represents a 20% increase in tax receipts for them. I guess Chicago is so wallowing in dough they don't need the money.

If - for instance - the city is protecting outlets that source locally against an outlet that doesn't, that makes good sense for the city as a whole. Money circulating locally increases aggregate demand, and the longer it's nearby the better my chance of getting hold of some of it. Companies such as WalMart tend to suck money straight out of a community.

It is none of the city's business where the products come from! And if that was their reason, they've kept it secret. They have no problem w/ Target, K-Mart, Home Depot, Menards, or any other big-box national store. No, Capel, the only reason they wouldn't allow it is because of labor union pressure. The unions have made WalMart their whipping boy and poster child. And frankly, the unions don't give a crap if anybody has a job except union workers. The 90% of the work force that is non-unionized could all eat dirt for all the unions care, they're a one-trick pony.

 

[jj]

Have no idea.
Ask the AFL-CIO local 338.
They are the ones who offer the unhappy-faced opinion that WalMart is a bad neighbor.

And I can bet they change their tune in a flash if WalMart ever became unionized! Then WalMart would be the shining happy face for the community!

Just so it's clear, I'm about 75% with you on the union issue. THey go wrong, too. Look at the steel industry. Well, look at what's left of it.

 

[joobie]

And I can bet they change their tune in a flash if WalMart ever became unionized! Then WalMart would be the shining happy face for the community!

yeah, imagine that: walmart fixes what they see as the problem and they decide it ain't so bad. big surprise.

 

[specious_reasons]

I take issue with the poster who said that tax payers end up footing the bill for medical costs of the employees there because Wal-Mart doesn't have health care. When I worked there they had a health care plant that you could enroll in. It was voluntary though, which made sense because a large number of the employees that I worked with were either retiree's who had medicare anyway or school kids who were still covered under whatever insurance their parents had. I think that is a fact that gets lost when people talk about the low wages and lack of medical care for Wal_mart employees; a large number of Wal-Mart employees are people who aren't looking for full time work in the first place. In my experience they hired a lot of students, single people, retiree's and people looking for a second job.

That was me. It seems that I had the wrong information about that. I'm not positive Wal-Mart is doing right by the employees in terms of health-care, but I certainly mischaracterized it earlier.

I still don't like going there.