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| Let me start by saying this, I work for Wal-Mart as an overnight stocker. I also went to high school in a small town. I do not make minimum wage, I make about 9.60 an hour, (I was being payed 9.10, but they gave me a raise just to make my wage competitive with the surrounding job market). I have never worked off the clock, in fact, you can get fired at Wal-Mart for doing that. The prices aren't much lower, that much is true, and I only buy my lunch at Wal-Mart, yes the quality is shit. But I remember when the supercenter came to that little pissant town. It was like we had joined up with the 20th century. I bought my first computer from wal-mart, which was shitty but thats because of the manufacturer, not because of wal-mart. When I go to work, I don't feel that my soul is being crushed, and I get paid better there then at Wendys or mc fucksticks. But I will give you the secret of wal-marts demise, which DM has already guessed. Unionize the employees. It is wal-marts achilles heal, and they know it, oh boy do they know it, they are shit scared of it. But I'll tell you one fun fact, when 9/11 happened, wal-mart was the first on scene with free food, blankets, water and other things needed for basic living. For like a couple of weeks, freight was pretty scarce at the distribution centers. They never advertised this, because they thought it would be crass to take credit for helping people in need. They do alot of things like that, and noone ever hears about it. In the end your just going to have to face facts, wal-mart is to other retailers what mammals are to reptiles, its just plain and simple evolution, and the buissness world is darwinistic as hell. Now instead of just sitting there and ineffectually coveting wal-marts demise or boycotting them, why don't you try and unionize the employees? It would kill them dead, do it quick before the primate of retailers comes into the scene. |
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