On 11/25/2010 12:14 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
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> "George" > wrote
>>
>> Or maybe because they give printed instructions to employees on how to
>> obtain their "benefits" since their wages put a good portion of their
>> employees in the official poverty class (>50% of the folks on public
>> assistance in my state are walmart employees) Or maybe because
>> walmart's strategy to destroy US manufacturing to insure their margins
>> actually isn't a good thing now that it has played out and many jobs
>> are gone forever? Obama can't keep picking folks pockets to
>> "stimulate" the economy forever instead of having real jobs.
>
> The wages are about the same as other stores pay. If you are going to
> bash once store, be sure to bash all the others along with them.
>

Actually they aren't. And Walmart is well known for an extreme overuse
of keeping people at part time status.

> Same with moving jobs overseas. WalMart may be the biggest importer, but
> just look at the origin of similar products in Sears, Lowes, Best Buy,
> Target or wherever.

Sure, but Walmart was the one that really made it the acceptable thing
to do.

>
> We recently had an opportunity to supply WalMart with a product for next
> summer. They told us the price they would pay, we told them "no thanks".
> The volume was great, but with no profit, we won't touch it. There
> present supplier is afraid to say no and is having financial problems.
> It is a choice they are making.
>
But isn't that pretty simplistic on your part to amuse it is the same
for all other businesses since whatever it is you do can't possibly
represent the situations of other businesses?

> Don't forget to put a portion of the blame on the US consumer that is
> hunting that low, low, low price.

Absolutely, many US consumers didn't connect the dots.