Ok check this.

Walmart pays MORE than Min wage.
They have Quartly Profit Sharing. This depends on your store but the one that a friend works at she makes $1,200 - $2,200 a year Extra
You get a 10% discount on Items
They match your 401K
Health Benifits 80% covered
after 20 years you get 20% discount for Life.
Most employees are not working to hard...

Seems fairly good to me since they already start at more than Min wage!

So a company cuts hours, because there isn't enough work, then works them overtime when there is, and you have a problem with this? The Company should just pay set hours even if there isn't enough work?? But now the employee is making 1.5 X for the extra hours worked... Man I tell you...

Get USE to this cutting of hours. Kroger is Hiring like crazy and cutting peoples hours so they do not have to pay health care... Thanks Obama!

They match your 401K, How much match 100%?
After 20 years you get 20% discount for Life. Dam, 20% off a Walmart price is dam low!

2 competing problems... Competitive advantage and globalization.

Basically, globalization drives down the price people are willing to pay for manufactured goods - shipping those low paying, non-technical jobs overseas where wages are lower. Forcing workers currntly employed in those jobs elsewhere.
If a country had a strong competitive advantage in certain sectors/economies, (eg: China/India has labour, Canada has natural resources, America *used* to have science and technology), then jobs should flow into those economies producing more goods and services in which it has a natural advantage in, allowing trade for the cheaper goods.

This ideally generates jobs in higher paying sectors, driving up average pay elsewhere.

The problem stems from losing your competitive advantage.... You can't just 'raise wages' without people having to pay more... And if you suddenly have to pay more for your goods, you'll find other ways to buy them... (EG: with globalization increasing, you'll order your new clothes straight from china, rather than off the shelf in walmart, you'll get your gadgets from dealextreme rather than bestbuy/circuitcity..)

it's a downward spiral to just try and 'raise wages', you need to fix the economy by focusing on areas in which your country/county/state has a natural competitive advantage in.

lets see you make shit to begin with and now they cut your hours. So what do you do that month? take a few payday loans now you are in the hole that gets deeper and deeper. Yep thats a good plan.

Actually to raise everyone up at walmart to 12 an hr costs a customer 30 cents. Maybe you can still stay competitive but you only make 10 billion instead of 16. Is that so bad? So a ceo makes 50 million a year instead of 100 million. Costco pays a good wage and wallstreet fought the ceo on it and he told them fuck you. Its all about greed I got mine fuck you.

Is it safe to say that average wallmart employee is not very bright when it comes to matters of how business and economy works?

Really how is that? When the costco employee can be paid a living wage.

LOL at people wanting it both ways. You are fine with companies not paying a living wage but are then appalled when people not making a living wage need supplemental government assistance.

There is a huge different between minimum wage and a living wage. In some areas a living wage is more than twice the minimum wage.

The same could be said for a forklift operator or laborer making $16/hr.

Edit: whoops that was supposed to be a reply to mineistaken.

Walmart is reporting biggest black thursday/friday ever...

Well there's your answer... If people are willing to pay 30 cents more, then they'll start shopping at Border's, linens 'n' things, circuit city, etc....
Better service, higher class of people, less lineups...

borders was cheaper than barnes and noble but had awful management. There is more to running a company than fucking employees.

It is 100%, but up to what amount the person did not know...

Yes, after 20 years of "service" to walmart you are what they call vested, and get 20% the rest of your life. I believe that is even off Sale and clearance things..

Should Walmart be starting at $10-$12 yes, I believe a company of this magnitude should be able to...

Well, Kinda like sales on the adult sites.. Should manwin cover my Low months???? HAHA

At which point the Waltons transfer it to Chinese banks where they also conveniently run slave mills.

You must not know how supply and demand works.

Walmart employes like 4 million people. Twice as much as the second largest employer in the country.

Exactly.

If FUCKING WalMart paid and provided health insurance at reasonable levels, WE wouldn't have to pick up the tab!

Check this shit out:

Walmart Workers To Get No-Cost Surgery At Mayo Clinic, Other Top Hospitals

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_1958673.html

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Well, according to Republicans, millions of WalMart workers are just supposed to walk away and find millions of better paying jobs. :1orglaugh

Ex-fucking-actly.

Didn't Walmart shut down the whole store and left town the last time some idiots tried to strike or form a union?

Yes. They also spy on their employees and make life difficult for anyone that suggests unionizing.

It's not only about supply and demand.

There is a PROBLEM with WalMarts ENORMOUS profits while the workers live in poverty and lean on the taxpayer. That problem can be addressed legislatively. If We The People decide the status quo is an outrage, we can change it. The country is here for the people. The people make the rules. Not the corporations. The problem is we've forgotten that. We're half asleep. We can MAKE WalMart cover health insurance. We can MAKE them pay higher wages by raising the minimum wage.

WE decide the rules. If a company is going to do business in America (and they DO want to) then they should be required to pay their employees a livable wage. If they can't afford to, then they can't afford to be in business. (WalMart can So afford to).

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I will. Colossally ignorant and reeking of....

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That's more than minimum wage.
Whoa, your right of entitlement and distribution of wealth ideals remind me of someone half your age.

This is what so many people miss. Especially those who are locked into the right-wing media bubble.

I have no problem with success. I applaud it wholeheartedly.

What I have a problem with is excessive greed. If you add up the Walton heirs' combined net worth, it's approaching nearly $100 Billion, yet most of their employees live in near-poverty. To quote a movie line: "How many yachts can you water ski behind?" They could pony up a mere 2% of their wealth and provide health benefits (not to mention a little bit better wage) to all their employees, but no....

The Walton heirs also spend a lot of money perpetuating the lie that Trickle Down/Supply Side economics actually works, when it's been proven that it actually doesn't. But hey, it lets them keep more money while treating their rank-and-file workers like glorified serfs, so go for it...i guess.

Just wondering if I have this right. Walmart makes so much money that they should just give everyone a raise to almost double what minimum wage is, thus making it where no mom & pop operation can get any employees?

For a such smart guy, you certainly lack the common sense with this subject.

Jesus fucking christ you are retarded.

Fuck, its useless to argue with you so I will just call you a fucking retard and go about my day.

In 2004.... One Wal-Mart store with 200 “associates” costs taxpayers over $420,000 per year in government assistance to the poor.

Don't even get me started on the millions in cash incentives they receive from local governments to open new stores. In many cases they are given the land to build on and the city hooks them up for free with water, sewer, etc... all paid by you. The American taxpayer. They also receive millions a year in cash incentives to keep the stores they build, where they are.

They have already put the mom and pops out of business.

Do I really need to mention anything about the chinese?

Holy fuck some of you are stupid as shit on this subject.

I don't know did they? do some fucking research. 3/4 of the people on this board don't know shit. Unless you are currently sober, he knows all about shit.

This morning I ran out of toilet paper. I thought to myself... where the fuck can i get toilet paper to wipe my ass with at 1am? Fuck I dont want to go to walmart. But that was the only place available. At the moment there are no alternatives. I could have wodded up a piece of paper and get all the starch out of it, but Ive grown accustomed to soft delicate paper to wipe my anus clean.

More proof walmart owns my ass.

Walmart employees are pussies.

These guys took over the factories and used GM products to build weapons.

Were you asking anyone specifically?

They are the largest employer in the world. They set the standards on pay.
If they are forced to raise wages, other big box retailers would have to follow suit in order to compete.

Meanwhile, walmart accepts corporate welfare in numerous ways and china is polluting the world and growing stronger.

The only way for Americans to really compete at this point in manufacturing, is flood the prison system with low waged workers for .50 and hour.

If companies like Unicor have their way, that's where we are headed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Prison_Industries

good post :thumbsup

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