Walmart

I rented this documentary tonight.
I strongly urge me fellow FreeOnes members to try and watch it in the near future. It will open your eyes to the tactics of the biggest company in the world is getting away with.

Sorry this wasn't a "porn-related" topic...but its filthy in a different way.

http://www.walmartmovie.com/

Wal-Mart:
Low Prices!
BUT
Low Morals and Values....

The Satyr Icon

I've seen it. I agree with everything except small businesses complaining. Another thing, Wal-Mart must be the retail store with the most employees, so if someone doesn't like what they receive from the store, why work there? You also have to look at it from another perspective. What if Wal-Mart didn't exist? And I think the main reason why the benefits are crap because of the union companies and the lawsuits they receive on a daily basis. But again, the store if filthy rich so it really doesn't make sense why they don't offer better benefits. The part about the crime in the parking lots was also interesting.


I would like to hear the other side of the stories because you know, there is another side to this story. The movie was ok but I didn't think it offered enough substance. I saw something similar on MSNBC that was more detailed.

i am so glad they are not here!

But you can get 3 copies of Time Cop on DVD for $19.95!

I avoid Wal-Mart like the plauge. I have no respect for the company, there beliefs or Sam Walton, there leader.

I used to work for them and they are so evil that all there corporate executives should be executed for high treason.

Another part of the film I thought was odd was that Walmart had all the resources available for their employees to take avantage of various services-Welfare, WIC, and so on...
Why would you do that as a company? You are actually admitting to your own workers that you pay shit and don't care about their families.
I do understand that many of the interviews were fueled by employees that maybe hated Walmart to begin with. I will say this, I work for a fairly big retail chain right now...and many of the same business practices I saw in that film are being applied to our store from managemnet on down. Its almost like my store is following the same business model.

Here's an example of bullshit at my store. I do not receive commission for the products I sell. I am told that with every product I sell, I must place a barcode sticker on the product. The employees were told that this procedure "tracks our sales" so they can adjust the schedule's hours each week. Huh?
My department only has one fulltimer and everyone else is part-time. The other part-timers besides me only work like 1-2 days a week. Why do you have to track my sales? You can't figure it out who works the department more? Who do you fucking think? :dunno:
I have worked for many different stores. Three of the stores I have worked for have all closed for business.
These idiots that run retail stores have no clue how to treat their workers. All they are interested in is the numbers at the end of the day.

Also wanted to post this. Quite interesting reviews.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/1580082319/104-8496830-9919906

Wal-mart aint no different than..........

-Home Depot
-Lowes
-McDonalds
-Target
-Burger King
-Macy's
-JC Penny's
-Sears
-Subway

And the list goes on.

Protest Wal-Mart, you gotta protest everybody. Wal-Mart is targeted cuz they are #1.

Peace.

the fact is that you can't have profit without exploitation. it doesn't make it right, but you have to understand that's the way it works. No one is going to give thier time and money out of the goodness of thier heart, and if they do, it's because they aren't trying to make a profit. I'd say to support local businesses because while, as you pointed out fullmoon, they may not differ so much in thoery, their livelyhood is directly effected by thier community, so out of purely profit-motivation they can't burn the community. walmart can cuz they can afford it, and that's why they practice cut and run.

I'm a consumer, so I shop Wal-Mart to save as much of my hard earned money as possible. If there were an alternative I would consider it.

So, if you're a Wal-Mart employee and you don't like it there, do what I did with the last job I hated: quit. I used to work at a store a long time ago and I saw most of the employees there just like me were all students, either college or high school, just working there part time.

I don't know about Wal-Mart, but I'm under the impression that retail stores would around their employee's schedule to allow them time to go to school or something, so that hopefully one day when they're done with schooling they can quit that misserable job and start their career.

I remember hearing about this book written by a woman who was some...hrmph. She had some high paying profession, or something - she was well to do, at any rate. She decided to quit that job and go work in numerous low-end jobs, like McDonald's and Walmart and wrote a book about it.

Evidentially, Walmart was the worst of any she'd worked at, but I haven't read the book myself. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

I have a few friends from college who are from small towns, and their walmart is basically putting every small business out. This forces them to shop at Walmart, even for clothes(shudder).

Re: Walmart -- it's the size that matters ...

Wal-mart is just too damn big. That's always the problem. There's absolutely no way they can avoid it -- no change in direction or attitude will. And their focus on prices is expensing its own consumers -- but 90% of consumers care about initial price, so they really have themselves to blame.

Walmart is a deplorable American institution. Everything about it is dirty. Just look at the parking lot and then at the throngs of filth walking into the place. As a wise man once said "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public". And this explains the popularity of hordes of American shit like Walmart, McDonald's, and Jessica Simpson.

If anything this country lacks is taste and class. There are no morals here, that's for sure. Everyone lives this "you only live once" mentality.
Good examples would be: An old sofa on your front porch to an old broken down caddilac in your back yard.

I never shop there unless I absolutely have to. I used to spend $100/wk there ten years ago. Now I spend about $30/month. Bunch of greedy aholes.

I should watch the program.
I once worked for WalMart about 10 years ago, and there was good and bad. As an individual, I moved up from Cashier to Customer Service... The benifits aren't that great, and at the time the pay wasn't that good either.

Wal-Mart is committed to "buying american", however, in my area, they went Non Union when they built their building, and I have a lot of issues on the effects that Wal-Mart has on small businesses.
I still shop at Wal-Mart though, it's at a good price, and as long as there is places like Target to give them competition, that will help out the consumer in the long run.

I go out of my way not to shop at Wall-Mart. I know it probably doesn’t make a difference and there will be tons of people that will shop there because they don't care or are so poor that they can't afford to shop at other local places. The people that say that wall mart wasn't the first or the only ones to do what they do are right, but in my mind Wall-Mart exemplifies more than almost anything else a lot of what is wrong with big business, cutthroat capitalism, and the U.S.A.