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I don't own Wal-Mart stock. I hardly go there any more since our store moved to a less convenient location. But they do have the closest fabric and sewing department in my area, something Target doesn't have.
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Haven't owned stock since I worked there. I just don't believe Wal-Mart is the beginning of the down fall of commerce. To each his own. I'll keep shopping there and the rest of you can do what you want.
dont buy a tv from wal mart that says rollback,most of those tv's were returns from customers,then wal-mart sends them off to the company who repackages it then wal mart sells it again,I know my good friend works there.They just got a tv back that still had the defective tag on it.
I buy these cheese steaks from Costco for $8 a box which has 6 in it,at wal mart they sell each one for $2.50,now is that really the lowest price they can offer to their customers.
and yes I have seen many mom and pop stores that pay more than wal-mart,I have worked many jobs even at wal-mart myself and quitting was the best thing that ever happened to me,I was actually surprised at how many more places pay better than wal-mart once I started job hunting.
The average wage for a Walmart Sales clerk is $8.23 and average wage for a cashier is under $8 - $7.92. Hardly what I would call good pay.
It's not much money, but it all depends on the area. In the area where I live around 8 bucks an hour is a good wage, not great, but it pays the bills. As for the mom and pop shops I have a friend that worked at a local grocery store and has worked there for about 3 yrs now and makes only $ 6.15 an hour and this for about all the grocery stores. It is not just Walmart that pays wages that are hard to live on, but so do the mom and pop stores.
I work as a sales specialist for Lowe's Home Improvement while attending college, and while our company is by no means a "goody two-shoes," we make Wal-Mart look like pond scum. I'm quite happy working for my company, and I'll go so far as to say that we're a role model that Home Depot and Wal-Mart should aspire to emulate. I have a 10% employee purchases discount, a 15% discount on employee stock purchases, limited benefits as a part-timer (and comprehensive benefits for full-timers), 401(k) employer match, a discount on new GM and Ford vehicles, paid vacation time, sick time, jury duty time, holidays, etc. Our managers (for the most part) treat us as societal equals and don't "talk down" to us. Do part-time Wal-Mart employees receive all of these perks? I think not. Why? For as much as I love working at Lowe's, Wegman's, an upscale grocer in the Mid-Atlantic area, routinely wins a "Top 5" position on annual "Best Places to Work" lists, as they even put my own company to shame.
Being a "big-box", as you can see, doesn't mean that you necessarily have to be an unethical hell hole like Wal-Mart. Granted Lowe's also destroys Main Street America in the same fashion that Wal-Mart does, but at least my employer is shrewd enough to realize that if you treat your employees with respect and common courtesy that they'll more than return the favor by being more motivated to drive sales even above the initial outlay for employee perks. As someone who earns a great student wage of $10/hr., I'm MUCH more content working here than I was at my former employer, where I was only making $6.65 after two years of outstanding, dedicated service and eventually stopped caring about my job performance as a result of feeling neglected and unappreciated. Since I feel like Lowe's appreciates my time and effort, I return the gesture by striving to attract repeat business. There's an old adage that goes something like "you scratch my back; I'll scratch yours." It most certainly applies here.
I truly wish more of you would stop calling us liberal neo-fascists or whatever and EDUCATE YOURSELVES! Wal-Mart is the sewer of big-box stores for employment concerns. As a retail associate who was abused in the past I gladly boycott any business that I deem to be unfairly treating its employees, and Wal-Mart is top on a VERY short list I currently have. I can rattle off several others in only my subdivision alone who likewise boycott Wal-Mart for the same reasons I do---mistreatment of employees. If Wal-Mart would simply EDUCATE ITSELF and realize that by treating its associates as valued assets instead of expendible liabilities, then they could actually become MORE profitable as the millions who currently boycott Wal-Mart based upon social justice issues might be enticed to start shopping there again. I myself would shop at Wal-Mart again if and when they paid their employees a living wage with modest benefits so that my own paychecks wouldn't have to finance the medical care of Wal-Mart employees' children!
Its the year 2008 and people are just finding out that cashiers do not make as much as bond traders?
Money motivates people. I hope to open my own business venture in Downtown Scranton, PA in the future, and I will gladly forfeit some of my profit margin in order to ensure that my staff is happy. Why? I know that employees who think they are being treated well by their employers will be happier overall and will have a greater sense of loyalty to them, wishing to see them succeed as a way of payback. Happier employees generate more sales. More sales generate more profits. In essence a shrewd manager can indeed dig into his or her profits in the short-term to give his or her employees a financial boost while experiencing long-term sales revenues increases that outweigh the initial outlay for these "perks." It's a win-win situation---your employees are happier (and you feel better about yourself as an employer as a result) and your profits increase as your clientele appreciates your motivated staff and are more inclined to give YOU their business as a result of your competitors who have unmotivated staff.
I generally agree with you, but Walmart is like McDonalds. There is going to be an ever-changing array of people working there. The pay is low because nearly anyone can do that job with little or no training. So the long-term factor only matters when choosing managers. The reality is that unless you are in the front office, Walmart is not a place in which to chart a career. Its a place you have a job for awhile and hopefully move on.
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. But they do have the closest fabric and sewing department in my area,
That reminds me of when all of the Woolworths closed and I went to Caldor to try to find sewing things and asked for the notions department . Try doing that to a teen-aged worker today & you will get a look that clearly shows that no one uses this phrase anymore (or sews either, I guess).
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