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Walmart Closes LA Store Over $15 Minimum Wage
Breitbart.com ^ | 17 Jan 2016 | Chriss W. Street

Posted on 01/18/2016 5:41:11 AM PST by Rockitz

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21 posted on 01/18/2016 6:13:22 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Rockitz

Amazing how capitalism works.


22 posted on 01/18/2016 6:13:45 AM PST by armydawg505
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

the robo issue is really an app issue. The question is how soon?

Mcdonald’s will soon have an I phone app that allows an order to be placed on the I phone and picked up at a dedicated drive in window. no money will change hands because the transaction will be conducted via a credit card or perhaps a Mcdonalds card.

The new Mcdonald’s already have two drive ups. Making one a dedicated purchase by ap window will not be a difficult transiton. When in the drive Q, the order number is punched in to the device and it is staged at the window for pick up


23 posted on 01/18/2016 6:15:09 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
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To: Rockitz
According to Movement organizer Brooke Anderson, "As people deeply committed to environmental and climate justice, we condemn Walmart as a climate criminal and we stand side-by-side with Walmart's workers organizing for $15 per hour, full time work, and the respect they deserve."

In other words, it's okay for Wal-Mart to be a "climate criminal" and to destroy the earth so long as they pay their workers $15 an hour.

Of course the "climate criminal" charge is a bunch of BS, but this just goes to show the rank hypocrisy of the left. They will spout lies in order to bully people and corporations to get what they want.

I think Tom Wolfe coined it "Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers."

I can't wait for Donald Trump to get elected so that we can start pushing back on these loudmouths - who have been allowed to push their socialist leftist agenda unchallenged for all this time.

24 posted on 01/18/2016 6:15:44 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

It was all part o f the ‘plan’ formulated waaay back before WWI......dumb down the masses to the point that they are solely dependent on government for everything.................


25 posted on 01/18/2016 6:15:53 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Rockitz

A 33,000 sq ft store is a WM neighborhood store...

There is no way that size store can support a $15.00 an hour wage...

Unions kill off the one bright things to happen in this area, a store were people can buy food at reasonable prices and services like pharmacy, check cashing, money orders... they could care less...

They are the lowest scum...


26 posted on 01/18/2016 6:16:12 AM PST by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Rockitz

This really is a shame. Some city developers and politicians worked hard to get companies like Wal Mart and other “big box” stores to set up shop in urban areas to give inner city residents more choices. Then, with the stroke of a pen, they undercut it with these BS minimum wage increases. So inner city residents will be back to paying 20% or 30% more at Mom & Pop stores.


27 posted on 01/18/2016 6:16:47 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: CARTOUCHE

Most thefts from stores are from their own employees.........................


28 posted on 01/18/2016 6:18:18 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Rockitz

I saw a study based on value/volume of sales that $15.00/hour pay at Walmart adds less than a penny on the retail dollar. So if it is a low volume sales Wal Mart then it should just close and not use a min wage hike an excuse.


29 posted on 01/18/2016 6:19:24 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Perhaps we need to apply the Davis Bacon Act, the “prevailing wage” law, to workers in liberal bastions. However, make it a percentage of median net worth in that zip code.

“No 1%’er should make 20 times what his garbage collector/plumber/gardener/paperboy/housemaid earns!”

“To the Barricades! Social Justice for the Oppressed!”


30 posted on 01/18/2016 6:20:15 AM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: SamAdams76

“climate criminal”?...............these people are insane...............................


31 posted on 01/18/2016 6:20:38 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: central_va

yes, but was the study worth a damn?


32 posted on 01/18/2016 6:21:32 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

........and government employees, at every level, DO NOT PAY TAXES..........................


33 posted on 01/18/2016 6:22:00 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Rockitz

“Furthermore, Walmart’s closure in Los Angeles means that shoppers will still be able to go to neighboring cities to shop at Walmart”

Interesting sentence. I wonder if maybe the LA city mothers may find a way to ban travel to neighboring towns to shop. Or maybe using purchase receipts to require those “Shopping Tourists” to pay their fair share.


34 posted on 01/18/2016 6:22:18 AM PST by Tupelo (Honest men go to Washington, but honest men do not stay in Washington.)
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Mcdonald's will soon have an app that allows an order to be placed on the phone and picked up at a dedicated drive in window. no money will change hands because the transaction will be conducted via a credit card or perhaps a Mcdonalds card.

I already use Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts this way. I have phone apps with pre-loaded amounts and all they do is scan my phone to debit it. When the balance gets down to a certain amount, it reloads a small amount of money from my checking account. I almost never have to go to to ATM machine for cash anymore because coffee is about the only reason I would pay cash for anything.

35 posted on 01/18/2016 6:23:15 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Red Badger
........and government employees, at every level, DO NOT PAY TAXES..........................

That is only partially correct. They pay Federal tax on income. But they are exempt from a number of state taxes; also many of their generous benefits are not taxed as income.

What you said seemed so outrageous that I looked it up. Unfortunately, the truth is bad enough!

One of the first links I found was:

Advantages of Government Employment in the United States

36 posted on 01/18/2016 6:28:30 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: central_va

Please cite the study


37 posted on 01/18/2016 6:31:06 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: central_va

Walmart didn’t say it was because of the wage increase. Breitbart did. Walmart is closing a bunch of stores nationwide.


38 posted on 01/18/2016 6:31:59 AM PST by saleman
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To: freeangel
Oh, oh. A big box desert. What will the obamas’ do about this? Mandate the store stay open?

Ah, the ol' Venezuelan Solution.

39 posted on 01/18/2016 6:34:25 AM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting , knitting, always knitting.)
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To: super7man

Start hoarding toilet paper. ;-)


40 posted on 01/18/2016 6:35:30 AM PST by r_barton
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