The liberal way: Find golden goose. Kill golden goose.
LRAA reads like something that came out of Atlas Shrugged. Basically says large companies can pay more, so they have to, regardless of the already law minimum wage.
What’s the requirement to be on the DC Council — an IQ of about 75 is about all I can believe based on their actions in response to the way WMT has worked with the community. WMT went way out of the way at every turn to accommodate the desires from the surveys and the DC Council wants to pull the rug from under them. They’ll end up with nothing and blaming WMT — watch and see I’m right on this.
I cancelled my membership in Sam's Club and will not purchase anything from Wal-Mart.
The WaPo comments section on this article is about to go into meltdown mode - the rate of comment coming in is faster than I can click down and read. Even more interesting is the fact the WaPo editorial page called out the Council for their anti-business actions.
Guessin’ some Council members feel they didn’t get enough grease from Wally World.
Do they enjoy being the victims of armed robbery and/or the trashing of their property?
I think they should just walk away and let “the District” continue to do without stores that carry affordable merchandise.
Where are you going to find that many people in DC to actually work in the stores? The vast majority of people in DC are either working for the government or on the government dole.
Wal-Mart should STOP construction until they know the outcome of the vote in the city council.
And put up a sign explaining why it stopped.
The thugs that run Wash DC had better be careful. WMT has threatened to cancel construction of three planned stores.
I recall an article about Wal*Mart closing a successful store in Canada solely because the town government got too uppity.
My advice to Walmart is to close down the building of the stores they are working on and get out.
I remember Hechingers. The theft there by employees was so great you could buy tools and other things on the street with the Hechinger price still on it. That didn’t count what the customers were stealing.
Sears left DC except for West of the park. Up near Chevy Chase. When you hire in DC remember, what you see is what you get.
I hope Wal-Mart pulls out of DC and fast......
The obvious reply is to stop ALL work, immediately, on the stores under construction, and put all activity on hold.
If the vote passes, end all contracts, pull all items of any value out of the sites. . .
And then release a rumor that George Zimmerman has a hideout in one of the buildings.
The DC “yutes” will take it from there, Wal-Mart gets an insurance payout. . . .and DC gets three empty lots full of wreckage. . .
regardless of wages, such a store would be theived out of business in a couple months.
They should cut their losses and leave. There are a bunch of Walmarts within striking distance of DC in Virginia and Maryland. If people want to shop there, they can drive a few minutes out of the city and find one. If they don’t want to shop there, they can stick with places such as the Soviet Safeway on Capital Hill and the Social Safeway over in Georgetown. Or they can drive to the Pentagon, keep going South for a mile or so and hit Shoppers Food Warehouse and Target. All the otherwise unemployable people who thought they might get a job at the new Walmarts can just pound sand, I guess.