The Company Store

[kalm]

The real irony here isn't that Walmart pays so little that it's employees feel compelled to host a Thanksgiving food drive at the store for some of it's own needy associates. The point has been made ad-nauseum regarding poor people having kids, owning iPhones, flat screens etc. and expecting to survive on Walmart wages - which is valid.

The irony is that while this goes on at the largest private employer in the world, the Walton heirs control more wealth alone than the bottom 40% of Americans.

What a great system!

(btw, check the last name of the Walmart spokesman in the article…you can't make this shit up! )

Walmart is defending a holiday food drive for needy store associates at one of its Ohio stores, saying the workers are voluntarily helping colleagues who are experiencing "unforeseen hardships."

In a photo that is being distributed on the Internet by Our Walmart, a labor group that receives funding from United Food and Commercial Workers International Union that is pushing Walmart to unionize its employees, several large plastic bins behind the scenes of a store in Canton, Ohio, are shown with signs that read: "Please donate food items here so Associates in Need can enjoy Thanksgiving Dinner."

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/ohio-wal ... d=20927026" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Grizalltheway]

15 hours
What do ya get
Another day older and deeper in debt

[Ivytalk]

(btw, check the last name of the Walmart spokesman in the article…you can't make this **** up! )

Ummm, yeahhhh...

[andy7171]

You're right. They should close their doors and live as hermits.

[kalm]

You're right. They should close their doors and live as hermits.

[andy7171]

You're right. They should close their doors and live as hermits.

If you don't like working at wall mart, go somewhere else?

[kalm]

If you don't like working at wall mart, go somewhere else?

Yes, you're missing the big picture...

[Baldy]

If you don't like working at wall mart, go somewhere else?

Yes, you're missing the big picture...

That the vast majority of the jobs at Walmart are low skill jobs that virtually anyone with opposable thumbs can do and are paid accordingly?

[Grizalltheway]

Yes, you're missing the big picture...

That the vast majority of the jobs at Walmart are low skill jobs that virtually anyone with opposable thumbs can do and are paid accordingly?

So are most of the jobs at Costco, but you don't see their employees resorting to food drives.

[kalm]

Yes, you're missing the big picture...

That the vast majority of the jobs at Walmart are low skill jobs that virtually anyone with opposable thumbs can do and are paid accordingly?

And are the number one private employer in the world and some of their own associates need food drives to be able to afford their products while the heirs of the company have more wealth than the bottom 40 % of the country.

Jee...why don't the 47% pay taxes?

[ASUG8]

Jee...why don't the 47% pay taxes?

Interesting that one can make that comment this year and not seem elitist.

[Grizalltheway]

Jee...why don't the 47% pay taxes?

Interesting that one can make that comment this year and not seem elitist.

Also interesting that you failed to recognize the sarcasm in that post.

[ASUG8]

Interesting that one can make that comment this year and not seem elitist.

Also interesting that you failed to recognize the sarcasm in that post.

I saw it....just an observation that it's hardly thought of as that far off base now.

[Chizzang]

Wal-Mart is entirely a product of America... it's who we've become
Look no further than this article as an example of "what is America all about"

Another America specialty:
The American upper middle class has now successfully been trained to hate the poor
As a result they angrily defend the rights of the .001% (the 400 families that control 50% of the funds)

As is obvious:
1% cannot completely sway ballots
1% cannot completely control or manipulate laws and bills
But if you get the entire upper middle to do all your dirty work TA DA..!!!
Problem solved

Defending Wal-Mart
A uniquely American tradition

[Baldy]

That the vast majority of the jobs at Walmart are low skill jobs that virtually anyone with opposable thumbs can do and are paid accordingly?

So are most of the jobs at Costco, but you don't see their employees resorting to food drives.

As are most of the jobs at Target (who on average make LESS than the average Walmart hourly employee), but one of their stores isn't having a food drive, either.

Your point?

[Baldy]

That the vast majority of the jobs at Walmart are low skill jobs that virtually anyone with opposable thumbs can do and are paid accordingly?

And are the number one private employer in the world and some of their own associates need food drives to be able to afford their products while the heirs of the company have more wealth than the bottom 40 % of the country.

Jee...why don't the 47% pay taxes?

You tell 'em Che !!!

[GannonFan]

That the vast majority of the jobs at Walmart are low skill jobs that virtually anyone with opposable thumbs can do and are paid accordingly?

And are the number one private employer in the world and some of their own associates need food drives to be able to afford their products while the heirs of the company have more wealth than the bottom 40 % of the country.

Jee...why don't the 47% pay taxes?

Solution??? Plenty of angst but I don't hear a solution.

[Ibanez]

Here is an interesting article on the retailer.

The average Walmart "associate," Wake Up Walmart reports, makes $11.75 an hour. That's $20,744 per year. Those wages are slightly below the national average for retail employees, which is $12.04 an hour. They also produce annual earnings that, in a one-earner household, are below the $22,000 poverty line.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart- ... z2lJKM1veR" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

If Walmart took its entire $22 billion of annual pre-tax income and used all of it to give each one of its 2.1 million employees a raise, this would amount to about $10,000 a year apiece.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart- ... z2lJJqyWGM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

If Walmart were to eliminate its $22 billion of income before taxes by giving every employee a raise, it would then pay no taxes. Which wouldn't help our national budget deficit.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart- ... z2lJKBGoWt" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;