Wal-Mart & The Hypesters

[TwilightPro101]

I hate the lines at Wal-Mart. They are always so long and slow. What sucks, is that at my Wally World there are about 12 registers. But when it busy only 6 are in use? Why can't they ask for help and get rid of the line?

That's why I shop there late, late at night.

Because they never hire enough cashiers to balance the shift. They hire only as many as they believe will hit them at that period of time.

 

[Ash J. Williams]

I actually don't mind Wal-Mart.

Oh, and look what I found...

 

[JTStarkiller]

Don't shop there too often, but since I work nights, and stay up til at least 6am every day, it's nice to get new releases on Tuesdays at midnight and enjoy them before I go to bed.

 

[3dman27]

i like shopping at walmat but i wish they return to selling more movie score cdsND DVD BOX SEASON SETS

 

[eat aliens]

I hardly ever go to Wal-Mart.
I always shop at Target, where the stores are actually clean and I don't have to worry about getting run over by some lazy fatass on a rascal.

 

[redmarvel]

Walmart has some very bad business practices...

Wal-Mart employs more people than any other company in the United States outside of the Federal government, yet the majority of its employees with children live below the poverty line. "Buy American" banners are prominently placed throughout its stores; however, the majority of its goods are made outside the U.S. and often in sweatshops. Critics believe that Wal-Mart opens stores to saturate the marketplace and clear out the competition, then closes the stores and leaves them sitting empty.
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the employees on average take home pay of under $250 a week. The salary for full-time employees (called "associates") is $6 to $7.50 an hour for 28-40 hours a week
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One-third are part-time employees - limited to less than 28 hours of work per week - and are not eligible for benefits.
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Wal-Mart employees start at the same salary as unionized employees in similar lines of work, they make 25 percent less than their unionized counterparts after two years at the job. The rapid turnover - 70 percent of employees leave within the first year - is attributed to a lack of recognition and inadequate pay
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Full-time employees are eligible for benefits, but the health insurance package is so expensive (employees pay 35 percent - almost double the national average) that less than half opt to buy it. Another benefit for employees is the option to buy company stock at a discount. Wal-Mart matches 15 percent of the first $1800 in stocks purchased. Yet most workers can't afford to buy the stock. In fact, not one in 50 workers has amassed as much as $50,000 through the stock-ownership pension plan. Voting power for these stocks remains with Wal-Mart management.
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only after Wal-Mart's "Buy American" ad campaign was in full swing did the company become the country's largest importer of Chinese goods in any industry. By taking its orders abroad, Wal-Mart has forced many U.S. manufacturers out of business.

http://www.pbs.org/itvs/storewars/stores3.html

 

[Showtime]

My company supplies Wal-Mart with some of their goods, so I will keep silent.

 

[redmarvel]

Then there's this take on the mega store:

Wal-Mart is not just the world's largest retailer. It's the world's largest company--bigger than ExxonMobil, General Motors, and General Electric. The scale can be hard to absorb. Wal-Mart sold $244.5 billion worth of goods last year. It sells in three months what number-two retailer Home Depot sells in a year. And in its own category of general merchandise and groceries, Wal-Mart no longer has any real rivals. It does more business than Target, Sears, Kmart, J.C. Penney, Safeway, and Kroger combined. "Clearly," says Edward Fox, head of Southern Methodist University's J.C. Penney Center for Retailing Excellence, "Wal-Mart is more powerful than any retailer has ever been." It is, in fact, so big and so furtively powerful as to have become an entirely different order of corporate being.

Wal-Mart wields its power for just one purpose: to bring the lowest possible prices to its customers. At Wal-Mart, that goal is never reached. The retailer has a clear policy for suppliers: On basic products that don't change, the price Wal-Mart will pay, and will charge shoppers, must drop year after year. But what almost no one outside the world of Wal-Mart and its 21,000 suppliers knows is the high cost of those low prices. Wal-Mart has the power to squeeze profit-killing concessions from vendors. To survive in the face of its pricing demands, makers of everything from bras to bicycles to blue jeans have had to lay off employees and close U.S. plants in favor of outsourcing products from overseas.

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html

 

[rdh007]

My company supplies Wal-Mart with some of their goods, so I will keep silent.

You really are the great compromiser.

 

[PhotoJones]

Wal-Mart is basically Hell incarnate.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Walmart has some very bad business practices...



http://www.pbs.org/itvs/storewars/stores3.html

Then there's this take on the mega store:



http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html

Yeah Wal-Mart is one gigantic *****e, but I suffer from what most Americans suffer on this issue: One big freaking case of "I don't give a f**k because Wal-Mart's prices are so low and they have everything there I need!"

 

[Darthphere]

And its just not the lot getting flooded. So many people shop at the damn Wal-Mart that its impossible to find a good parking space. You have to park far as hell from the store. I think I can find a better parking space at Dolphin Mall than at that shopping center.

Dolphin Mall needs a Parking garage.

 

[Prognosticator]

I go to Wal-Mart. Their DVD selection is crap though compared to Best Buy.

But their prices are GOLD compared to "Best Buy"!

 

[Prognosticator]

Yeah Wal-Mart is one gigantic *****e, but I suffer from what most Americans suffer on this issue: One big freaking case of "I don't give a f**k because Wal-Mart's prices are so low and they have everything there I need!"

Yeah, but if I garnered my DVD collection from Sun Coast, I'd have 5 DVDs, as opposed to 200!

 

[Darthphere]

But their prices are GOLD compared to "Best Buy"!

Not really. Best Buy and Circuit City usually offer new releases for like $13 on their week of release. "OMG! Wal-Mart has is for $12.54!" or some random ass price.

 

[Prognosticator]

I've NEVER seen that.

 

[Darthphere]

I've NEVER seen that.

Then you are blind.

 

[Prognosticator]

Nope. BB still sells ALL of the HBO series DVD sets for about $90 a piece, months after Wal-Mart lowered them to about $65.

I go into BB looking for specific stuff, and it's always marked up. I rarely find a "deal" that I like there.....but I mostly buy online now so it doesn't matter.

 

[Darthphere]

Nope. BB still sells ALL of the HBO series DVD sets for about $90 a piece, months after Wal-Mart lowered them to about $65.

I go into BB looking for specific stuff, and it's always marked up. I rarely find a "deal" that I like there.....but I mostly buy online now so it doesn't matter.

Did you miss the part where I specifically stated "new releases"?

 

[LexCorp]

Wal-Mart dose not...SUCK Burn in HEEELLLLLLLL.

I agree, we have nothing in the UK that compares to the might of WalMart

 

[Prognosticator]

Did you miss the part where I specifically stated "new releases"?

I read it. And perhaps I'll start checking out the new releases. But I'm in the habit of buying DVDs that have been out a while. Most of the new stuff doesn't appease me as much.

 

[Darthphere]

I read it. And perhaps I'll start checking out the new releases. But I'm in the habit of buying DVDs that have been out a while. Most of the new stuff doesn't appease me as much.

"I hate pretentious movie watchers"-Berman.

 

[SapphirePrima]

Wal-Mart is a good place to buy magazines too.

 

[Prognosticator]

well played.


i mostly buy DVD box sets of TV shows now though.

 

[PyroChamber]

Even though it's owned by the same company, I like Sam's Club better.