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Originally Posted by woj Walmart profit Margin (ttm): 3.57% and besides, that logic is ridiculous, so walmart provides millions of jobs, and somehow people manage to label them as the bad guy, wtf? no one is forcing people to take on these jobs, if they don't want to stock shelves for $7/hr maybe they should get some skills so they could get a better paying job?

When I was 17 I got paid $2.35 in 1972 (Union Wages) working part time in a discount store -- that would be $12.87 in 2011. (Shows you how bad inflation (the hidden tax) has been.)

Walmart, Target and others are paying $8 - $10 average. If that is not a spiral down I don't know what is. People that work at these stores, if they are single mothers, qualify for state and federal subsidy programs in many places -- who do think pays that money that they get?