I guess you can pay your employees more when you outsource their health care costs to healthcare.gov....
Just sayin...
Also by raising the cost of labour it hurts the small time operators in the area becasue now they have to raise wages to prevent workers leaving for wal-mart....
I miss the old wal-mart when sam ran it, not the crony crapitalist big govermeent monster it has turned into...
The local Sheetz convenience store pays more than the local Walmart. A night stocker quit and went to Sheetz where she took a job as a cashier on night shift. That was after the WV minimum wage went to $8.00 per hour.
Note that Wal-Marts purchasing power has increased substantially as the US Dollar has rallied over the past few months.
While China maintains a “dirty peg” to our dollar, virtually every other supplier to Wal-Mart is desperate to maintain their exports and have been racing to “devalue” their currency.