Walmart - Good or Bad? (Chicago: buying, wages, living)

[lajollaeleven]

Chicago seems to have a love hat relationship with Walmart. City council hates it, citizens love it. Any opinions.

[IcantSELLmyHouse]

They treat the Vendors very bad and I try to support a company that does most of its buying in USA.

[Union Proud]

I am too boycotting wally world.Why shop at big box stores that ship 80% of products from china.That goes for the rest of them too.We are putting our own americans out of jobs.

[NYrules]

Originally Posted by Booboy

I am too boycotting wally world.Why shop at big box stores that ship 80% of products from china.That goes for the rest of them too.We are putting our own americans out of jobs.

I also agree in part, but it really is our own faults. When unions are screaming of wanting companies to pay people $25 an hour to operate a punch press or some average machine, and give full benifits up the ying yang, then what is the company to do? Charge $50 for a matchbox car, $300 for a pair of sneakers, $ 6000 for a 25" television set, or ship their operation over seas where people are willing to work just to work? They are happy making enough $ to put food on the table, and are not looking to make enough to drive Mazzeratis, and wear all Armani like our union people here seem to want. I can understand wanting to make the big bucks... We all do, but we are pricing the American worker right out of the market. The mexicans are taking all the labor jobs in the US, India took all the phone and office stuff away from us, and now China is rapidly taking away all of our manufacturing. We better wake up is all I can say.

[Union Proud]

Originally Posted by NYrules

I also agree in part, but it really is our own faults. When unions are screaming of wanting companies to pay people $25 an hour to operate a punch press or some average machine, and give full benifits up the ying yang, then what is the company to do? Charge $50 for a matchbox car, $300 for a pair of sneakers, $ 6000 for a 25" television set, or ship their operation over seas where people are willing to work just to work? They are happy making enough $ to put food on the table, and are not looking to make enough to drive Mazzeratis, and wear all Armani like our union people here seem to want. I can understand wanting to make the big bucks... We all do, but we are pricing the American worker right out of the market. The mexicans are taking all the labor jobs in the US, India took all the phone and office stuff away from us, and now China is rapidly taking away all of our manufacturing. We better wake up is all I can say.

We have to earn a living wage to survive out here.The question is why executives are making 10s of million of dollars.Should the work force receive nice wages? We are the people who puts in the labor.Their jobs doesn't exist without us.

[bungalowbob]

I think Walmart is better suited to where the economy is doing better, such as Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas etc. in the south. Chicago & the rust belt are still tied to the dead unions of the fifties. That is why Walmart is hated in the North, and loved in the West (exclude Cali) & South. I love Walmart!!!

[Union Proud]

Originally Posted by bungalowbob

I think Walmart is better suited to where the economy is doing better, such as Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas etc. in the south. Chicago & the rust belt are still tied to the dead unions of the fifties. That is why Walmart is hated in the North, and loved in the West (exclude Cali) & South. I love Walmart!!!

Its better suited why because the wages are really low in the south.The job i do pays half of what i can make here.Some places in the south pays below our minium wages here for the same job.

[Avengerfire]

Kmart (as much as it can suck) and Target have way more products made in the USA than Walmart. As this is important to me, I avoid Walmart.

[~NeonFire~]

[Not from Chicago, IL] I also try to avoid Wal-Mart as much as possible. Some of the policies disgust me and other things mentioned in this thread; but when I go back home, it's pretty much the only department store where you can get certain items.

[UnderTheLiveOaks]

Look, I think WalMart sucks too, but as there is really only one WalMart in the city, and that's brand new, I don't know that this even belongs in the Chicago forum.