Posted on 01/18/2016 5:41:11 AM PST by Rockitz
Los Angeles residents of impoverished Chinatown were shocked to learn on January 17 that the Walmart they pleaded for years to get would be shut down at 7 p.m. Sunday evening due to the city’s new $15 minimum wage ordinance, and union harassment.
(Update: The closure was described by the company as one of 154 closures “that took into account a number of factors, including financial performance as well as strategic alignment with long-term plans.â€)
Immigrant Hispanic and Asian residents of central Los Angeles campaigned for years for a “big box†retailer to locate in their economically depressed neighborhood to compete against liquor stores that sold a limited number of food items at very high prices. In September 2013, Walmart finally opened a 33,000-square-foot grocery and drug store in the Chinatown area.
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Liberals piously called this negative impact a “reasonable tradeoff worth embracing,†whereas conservatives and business owners called it proof that risky government interference would destroy jobs and put more people on welfare. But there are no independent studies of what a 50 percent, let alone 100 percent increase would do.
Furthermore, Walmart’s closure in Los Angeles means that shoppers will still be able to go to neighboring cities to shop at Walmart, taking sales tax payments away from LA.
Breitbart News reported in late July that local union bosses want their locals exempted from the law, since businesses were already making plans to cut employee head count.
The same month, McDonald’s opened its first robotic restaurant in Phoenix, and hotels in L.A. announced they were planning to reduce guests’ daily room cleaning, or charging extra for doing so.
Private sector union membership has plummeted from almost 40 percent of the workforce in the 1960s to a new low of 6.6 percent in 2015.
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Amazing how capitalism works.
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
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.
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.................
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...
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.
Most thefts from stores are from their own employees.........................
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.
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!”
“climate criminal”?...............these people are insane...............................
yes, but was the study worth a damn?
........and government employees, at every level, DO NOT PAY TAXES..........................
“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.
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.
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:
Please cite the study
Walmart didn’t say it was because of the wage increase. Breitbart did. Walmart is closing a bunch of stores nationwide.
Ah, the ol' Venezuelan Solution.
Start hoarding toilet paper. ;-)
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