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I pay the same taxes as everybody else. You think Walmart is causing the nations taxes to go up? LOL.
Actually if you look at the poverty level making 8 bucks an hour you are above the poverty level if your single or a couple. If you have kids and are working at Walmart making 8 bucks an hour you should be looking for a different job. Or if you and your spouse both work at Walmart making 8 bucks an hour you will fall above the poverty line for a family of five. So what are you even talking about?
Let me tell you that here in Canada Walmart is the lousiest of any of the major grocery stores. They will never make it here if they don't improve a LOT. I just hate their sneaky way of selling things. A package of meat for $10. WTF????? How much per pound??? It should be illegal to sell like that. I'm a thrifty shopper and I would lose a lot of money if I grocery shopped at Walmart. All the major grocery stores have big sales on items every week. Not Walmart. They claim to price match but make it very difficult because of packaging differences, size differences and just plain don't carry the item. Those Mom and Pop stores you are talking about, they are "Convenience" stores and are not meant to be primary shopping destinations.
I don't know how things work up in the land of maple syrup but if you can't figure out that something is cheaper at walmart than your regular grocery or vice verse then you aren't a very frugal shopper like you claim. I know what I buy on a pretty regular basis to feed the kids and know what is cheaper at wally world than my usual store and what is cheaper at my usual store than walmart. I never buy meat at walmart.
Yup me neither. I suppose it's fresh to some degree but I get good quality at a decent price at Wegman's if I'm in a bind I'll go to Giant.
Let me tell you that here in Canada Walmart is the lousiest of any of the major grocery stores. They will never make it here if they don't improve a LOT. I just hate their sneaky way of selling things. A package of meat for $10. WTF????? How much per pound??? It should be illegal to sell like that. I'm a thrifty shopper and I would lose a lot of money if I grocery shopped at Walmart. All the major grocery stores have big sales on items every week. Not Walmart. They claim to price match but make it very difficult because of packaging differences, size differences and just plain don't carry the item. Those Mom and Pop stores you are talking about, they are "Convenience" stores and are not meant to be primary shopping destinations.
What choice does the working poor have if they live in a food dessert? Hope in the Volvo with the 2 kids, dog and cat and drive out to Maryland?
NO, they use their meager means to buy Ramen at the convenience store at twice the price of a regular store and four times as much as the WalMart.
So, why should Mom and Pop be charging 4x the price and paying their workers 1/3 less than WalMart has to without offering healthy selections for the simple reason their store is too small?
Talk about cutting off noses. And here, where I live they are certainly the price leader except when there are big sales at a grocery store. Every day prices are lower usually by far.
Even if Walmart were to pass 100 percent of the wage increase on to consumers, the average impact
on a Walmart shopper would be quite small: 1.1 percent of prices, well below Walmart's estimated
savings to consumers. This works out to $0.46 per shopping trip, or $12.49 per year, for the average
consumer who spends approximately $1,187 per year at Walmart. This is the most extreme estimate,
as portions of the raise could be absorbed through other mechanisms, including increased productivity or lower profit margins.
This new law will force Mom & Pop stores to raise their wages to compete with the Box Stores.
It may put many out of business.
Unintended consequences.
And people will drive in from outside the district seeking higher wages at WalMart therefore allowing WalMart to pick people with more experience therefore making the working poor compete harder for jobs they probably won't qualify for.
There is no way in hell that Wally would pay the sky-high real estate prices in Montgomery County, Md, Arlington County, Va, the City of Alexandria, Va., or northwestern Fairfax County, Va. That leaves Prince Georges County, Md where Wally already has several stores close to the DC line.
One never knows, but in all lilihood, 6 stores would have created 2,000 jobs for people who will remain unemployed for years after this whole matter is forgotten.
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