Posted on 04/17/2015 8:51:24 AM PDT by cotton1706
The closures could last up to six months and affect roughly 2,200 workers in Texas, California, Oklahoma, and Florida, CNN Money reports.
Wal-Mart employees say they were completely blindsided by the news, having been notified only a couple hours before the stores closed at 7 p.m. Monday.
"Everybody just panicked and started crying," Venanzi Luna, a manager at a store in Pico Rivera, California, told CNN Money.
All workers will receive paid leave for two months. After that, full-time workers could become eligible for severance, according to CNN Money. But part-time workers will be on their own.
Local officials and employees have questioned Wal-Mart's reasoning for the closures.
According to ABC News, "no plumbing permits have been pulled in any of the five cities where the stores were suddenly closed for at least six months."
A city official in Pico Rivera confirmed to CBS Los Angeles that the city has not received any permit requests for building repairs.
In Midland, Texas, where another store was closed, a city official told ABC News that his plumbing inspector was turned away when he visited the store and offered to help secure construction permits.
Wal-Mart plumbing technician Codi Bauer, who worked at the now shuttered store in Brandon, Florida, questioned the company's time frame for the repairs.
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I’m going with my “rampant employee theft” theory.
A FReeper opined a few days ago that the closed stores may be used for internment of American citizens during martial law.
I’m not inclined to tin-foil-hattery, but given the current climate, such a thing is not outside of the realm of possibilities, even if it is seemingly outlandish.
Walmart’s plumbers Crack is cracking
Sure sounds like it.
Employees of the Pico Rivera store were among the first to hold Black Friday protests in 2012."
And liberals will complain about the closings after having complained about Wal-mart for years and wanting them to go away.
L’ll just take a wild guess that:
1) The vast majority of those former employees were part-time, since walmart’s business model is to stay as far away from full-time employees as possible...
2) The liberal idiots think there are no consequences for pressuring companies like WalMart to raise the pay of low end workers. Now instead of leaving voluntarily to find higher paying jobs, they are now forced to find one.
Karma is a bitch.
A FReeper opined a few days ago that the closed stores may be used for internment of American citizens during martial law.
I have a relative that jumped immediately to the “FEMA CAMP” conclusion. But that doesn’t make much sense - seriously, a Walmart as the perfect detainment facility?
Personally, I often have to decide if I want to spend a flat $6 fee (often less) for shipping and shop in my bathrobe or get in the car, fight traffic, jockey for parking, stand in line, risk not finding what I want, etc. for the instant gratification of having it now.
Personally, I often have to decide if I want to spend a flat $6 fee (often less) for shipping and shop in my bathrobe or get in the car, fight traffic, jockey for parking, stand in line, risk not finding what I want, etc. for the instant gratification of having it now.
No theory is outlandish, given this administration. I didn’t buy the plumbing problems theory from the get go.
a Walmart as the perfect detainment facility?”
...plenty of parking and toilet paper!
Nonsense. The bathroom facilities at Walmart superstores are only enough for a few people at a time, not the hundreds that would be housed in them.
Debra Jackson said she likes shopping at the Dollar Palace because it is convenient and casual. “I don't have to get all dressed up like I'm going to Wal-Mart...
It’s large, it’s non-descript, literally in the middle of a major metro area, and most WalMarts don’t have windows. Setup a few strong entryways, and you have the perfect detainment facility.
Someone wrote a fictional post-apocalyptic story a few years ago and used a grocery store as a detainment facility. The name escapes me, but the methods were outlined in intricate detail and left me wondering if they knew something we didn’t.
You’re assuming they’re going to let you have access to “facilities?”
Employees of the Pico Rivera store were among the first to hold Black Friday protests in 2012.
"This is the first store that went on strike," an employee told CBS Los Angeles. "This is the first store in demanding changes for Walmart."
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