To the left they ARE evil, they:
Won't allow unions,
Do allow choice in healthcare,
Do support school-choice,
Do refuse to sell pornography, and
Won't EVER allow unions.
Let's face it - if a company doesn't have some union thug being paid $40 an hour to sweep floors (when he actually spends half his time playing cards and drinking coffee) then the liberal press is going to go after that company. They consider it un-American to run a company in a way that gives the consumer more for their money. The Big Three, on the other hand get by with huge salaries that most of us cannot even begin to keep up with and even larger payouts to CEO's and the press frets endlessly over their survival.
The Barons of Big Labor on the Left will always sneer at the success of Walmart.
But they will alienate the rest of us if they keep avoiding the word "Christmas" as a matter of policy.
Walmart is good for the Peoples Republic of China.
The book should be titled "Is capitalism good for America?"
I won't shop at WalMart NOT because they are bad for America, but because they are too cheap to hire enough check-out cashiers.
I cant tell you how many times we would fill up the cart with stuff, only to find a 45-minute check-out line 18-shoppers deep.
At that point, I would simply leave the shopping cart filled with all the stuff, and walk out.
And it's not like WalMart is unaware of their problem. On CNBC financial channel, the CEO recently talked about how the company keeps track of the number of abandoned shopping carts they find in the check-out lines each day.
If there's too many, they know their customer service stinks.
To me, it always stinks.
If this is true then how come Costco can offer higher average salaries and a much better benefit package to its employees and still compete with Sam's Club on prices and quality of goods?
Wal-Mart is going to do whatever it wants to do. I honestly don't care because I don't shop there. But I really find it annoying when they try to paint themselves as something that they are not and that's a company that gives a moments thought to their employees. Wal-Mart employees are not considered an asset by the company, they're something to be put up with. Why else would internal management talk about cutting 401K contributions or the disadvantage of long term employees vs. new hires?
If liberals don't like it, it's usually good for America.
Certainly is good for us. Saves about $40 or more a month on groceries plus the savings on various other items and during the gas problem, it saved almost 15 cents per gallon.
We have to drive a little over 50 miles to get to one but since we only shop once a month the trip more than pays for itself.
Wal-Mart employs about 1.3 million people, about 1% of the American work force. Its sales, at around $300 billion a year, are equal to 2.5% of U.S. gross domestic product. It is not, however, an especially profitable company. Its net profit margins, at about 3.5% of revenue, are broadly in line with the rest of the retail industry. In fiscal 2004, Microsoft made more money than Wal-Mart on just one-eighth of the sales.
Wal-Mart has become the target of Dem politicians because the labor unions are pressuring them to punish this non-unionized business. It is pure propaganda and resembles the same kind of demonization that is being directed towards the oil industry. The Left (socialists and communists) in this country just don't like capitalism.
I don't see anyone being forced to work at Wal-Mart.
Auto engines come from Germany, Transmissions come from France and all other parts mostly come from Mexico and Canada.
The replacement brake parts for my GM cars and trucks have Made In China stenciled prominently on the carton.
I love WallyWorld! Many people don't because it started in Arkansas.
If it had started and kept its headquarters in New York there would be no HateWallyWorld propoganda.
However in the short run Wal-Mart is good for America..
And whether America rises or falls is in God's hands...
Yet we go out of our way to frustrate Him
Believe it or not, American business has been through this before. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., the grocery-store chain, stood astride the U.S. market in the 1920s and 1930s with a dominance that has likely never been duplicated. At its peak, A&P had five times the number of stores Wal-Mart has now (although much smaller ones), and at one point, it owned 80% of the supermarket business.
And then came the Unions and Government support for those Unions. They broke A&P.
For all the griping, moaning and cursing of Wal Mart, you never see their parking lot vacant!
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"Wal-Mart and China are a joint venture," Gereffi replied. "And both are determined to dominate the U.S. economy as much as they can in a wide range of industries."
This hand-in-glove partnership increases the squeeze on U.S.-based manufacturers to outsource or shut down. Privately, they report that Wal-Mart house brands, made in China, are undercutting their American-made products. Some add that Wal-Mart buyers "advise" and push them to move a certain share of their production abroad, up to 30 percent, and then periodically check to see whether American firms are meeting Wal-Mart's quota for overseas production.
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Of course, their goods are made with slave labor in China. Who are these slaves? Mostly people who have spoken out against China's oppressive communist regime.
I have never shopped at Wally World and never will.
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