Walmart rant

[Rastoff]

Im sure the behavior of Sam's sons bothers him more than the store's condition.

I avoid Walmart as much as possible. The employees get paid peanuts. Worse, Walmart works hard to keep their employees below full time so they don't have to pay for benefits.

 

[LVSteve]

I'm with David. If you are on your break why are you on the shop floor distracting those that aren't? There are workplaces where you can get away with it being a social event, but retail is not one of them.

 

[DeathGrip]

I don't go there much but when I do......I slip through the Garden Center right into Sporting Goods.

Once in a while I get lucky.....and find a nice Orchid.

My Wife stops there regularly and tonight she told me they had the elusive white pocket tees.

Tomorrow I'll go and take my Dad to get some other things.

We'll laugh at the sights.... He's heard "Wallmartians" on utube.

 

[GaryS]

In some stores I've been known to say to checkers, not roughly but quietly, "That's Mister Dude to you, son."

THAT could be a whole different rant thread by itself.

 

[GaryS]

I avoid Walmart as much as possible. The employees get paid peanuts. Worse, Walmart works hard to keep their employees below full time so they don't have to pay for benefits.

Every company is going to be doing that in a year or so.

 

[Wes Smith]

Walmart needs a Union

 

[erick1987]

Anyone play Walmart bingo?

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[revho]

Walmart is my personal hell here on earth. I dont go in them.

 

[BJoe]

I got to be the last person on the planet BUT I have NEVER set foot in a Walmart store. Don't have anything against them it's just that I have always has closer choices.

20-30 years ago I was in a K mart and I remember that it smelled like real stale popcorn. I assume Walmart is the same.

 

[DeathGrip]

I got to be the last person on the planet BUT I have NEVER set foot in a Walmart store. Don't have anything against them it's just that I have always has closer choices.

20-30 years ago I was in a K mart and I remember that it smelled like real stale popcorn. I assume Walmart is the same.

Beware the "Blue Light Special".

 

[redlevel]

Walmart is a pretty good place to shop. I buy oil, gas treatment and diesel additive, some batteries, lots of other stuff there. I have never encountered a really rude employee there, just a few clueless ones. For a spell of about two years, I got my hair cut at Wm. I probably have 10K of .22lr and 3K of .45ACP stashed away that I bought at various Wms from 2008-2010. When they start getting it again, I will start buying it again. Hoarding.

Why do we complain about Wm selling stuff made out of the country when many of us (not me) drive foreign cars and trucks, use electronics made in foreign countries, cell phones, etc? Don't blame Wm. Blame the factors, what ever they are, that make it so much cheaper to manufacture quality stuff in foreign countries.

You think Wm should let all their workers be full time so they have to provide bennies? That would be silly, bad business, and any board of directors of any company would laugh you out of the room if you suggested such.

 

[feralmerril]

Let me know if I am wrong on this. As I understand it the reason walmart and the rest of the retail world has part time employees is that if they are worked full time the owner is required by goverment regulations to provide health insurance and possibly some other bennies. Anymore there is no such thing as full time checkout clerks, fast food employees etc that work 40 hours. How much a month is average health insurance now? I pay around $700s a month for my wife AND that is after my old company pays part of it! At 40 hours a week the employer must pay about a average of $5.00s a hour just for insurance! Is that walmarts fault--or the goverments?
I know there are programs behind the scene in business that not many people hear of. Many yeats ago now, my ex father in law was a audiologist. There was some liberal program that re embersed him X amount per hour to hire his office girl. I dont recall what the requirements to get on that program was but I doubt a big outfit like walmart would get that help.
Walmart did put a lot of ma and pa stores out of business. I grew up in a very small village in wisconsin. (eureka). My folks moved there in 1952. There was three grocery stores and two bars. The grocery stores have been gone since the late 50s or 60s. Walmart wasnt around then yet, it happened because of the popularity of the new larger supermarkets comeing in to surrounding towns. Its evoloution with the times and growing population. A lot or maybe most villages nation wide I belive have shrunk as to where the citys have grew. (Excluding detroit).
I think overall is getting a bum rap and I really think it is somewhat due to a fad of bashing them.

 

[shouldazagged]

Every company is going to be doing that in a year or so.

A great many already are, but that doesn't make it right in my book. I don't like the idea that Wal-Mart is so huge it has the customers, the manufacturers, and their employees by the short ones.

I'm just suspicious of any entity with that much power.

 

[chud333]

Guess i'm pretty lucky as the 2 stores close to us are staffed
mostly with "adults" who are conscious of the rule (the customer
is always right). Friendly most times and the few times i've
gotten the " i don't really want to be here" attitude it's from a
kid right out of high school. We also are kinda stuck on the
groceries as the 2 small grocers here in our small town are about
double the price on most all food stuffs as Wallyworld. We still
patronize our local small hardware and grocery stores from time
to time but most of the Mom and Pop stores are gone sadly.

Chuck

 

[EllDee]

I have a rule, if I get upset with a store I no longer shop there.

THIS IS THE BEST

 

[tops]

If workers don't work full time the employer doesn't buy their insurance and by not working full time the worker can't pay their own insurance. With no insurance they can't pay the bill when they are sick so I end up paying for them when I go to the doctor. Also by working part time they don't have as much grocery and housing money and I get to supplement that. Larry

 

[feralmerril]

Walmart isnt alone in this. I belive almost all retail does the same. Large and small. Even lockheed aircraft where I was a guard hired "part time guards" for the same reason. I was there from 1965 to 2,000 and I think they started hireing part timers around the late 1980s. I am not real sure if they did it to not haveing to buy their insurance, (or if that even was possible) take us permanent guards overtime or both.

 

[rwsmith]

I'm sure it's getting worse

I won't go in Walmart unless I have to. K mart was ok when it first started but many years ago I quit going in there altogether. Rude service is worse than no service.

 

[pharmer]

I was in Walmart on Wed. Running my stuff I noticed 6 bananas were 5 1/2 lbs. When I balked, the person in partial English "That's what it says." I calmly asked her to remove the 12 pack of diet dr pepper from the scale and mysteriously it was 2 lbs. No apologies just voided the original item and re scanned. If you don't watch the errors are always in their favor. Joe

 

[durango]

I shop at Walmart frequently. It's not because I agree with everything that Walmart does. Rather, it's that it irritates my pro-union, anti-2nd Amendment cousins. I really do enjoy that. Is that bad?

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By the way, if you want good service at Walmart, go around 11pm-1am. The stockers know where everything is and are very friendly and helpful.