Wal-Mart strike turned out to be an epic fail

[Chris A]

How higher would the prices be?

http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/retail/bigbox_livingwage_policies11.pdf





Doesn't seem unreasonable $0.46 extra on average per shopping trip to Walmart and considering that their own employees would probably spend that much more in a convenient place to get that new bottle of shampoo or whatever groceries they might need before going home. It is not a bad situation.

I wouldn't be surprised if many people posting in this thread had that change lying around the house, or in the cushions of the couch or in their cars.

Unless of course you just have to have the most rock bottom price no matter what the cost.

Why single out Walmart plenty of low paying jobs out there. Lets bring the minimum wage up to a liveing wage say $15. Per hour or higher. I admit that idea is crazy but why just single out Walmart ?

 

[HeXen]

No one uses paper phone books anymore

who are you speaking for? We have and use them in our house.

 

[Chris A]

Raising the minimum would do nothing.

If it was $15 then youd have to bump everyone in america with a higher skilled job up even more. The whole point of shitty jobs is to make you aspire for a better paying one. If you can't do it tough shit.

Higher minimum wage just causes inflation as wage vs job eventually reaches equilibrium again on the entire job market. Or they figure out how to use less employees.


Walmart workers do not add much value to product which is why self checkout or buying stuff in amazon is an easy alternative. If you don't add much value you don't get paid much. Shipping goods and electronics have eroded the value retail sales ever had. So there you go. Blame it on the advancing of technology and distrbution and shipping efficiencies compared to a hundred years ago and why a retailer has lost its ability to raise margins and pay more like small town stores do.

Shall we cry for the telephone switchboard operation whose skilled job at the time was erased by advancements. Or hell I work for a phone book company aka local search. No one cries for the phone book people when we fire them. No one uses paper phone books anymore and the company needs to get with the times. I work in the grossly more profitable online search division. Evolve and keep up or die in a low paying service job. Technology has killed the living wage job as the definition of "skilled" moves higher. Hell we used to have typing pools before copiers right?

I agree. There is no easy answer to this. I know blaming Walmart for people's problems is not the right answer because if you force them to increase wages others will have to follow.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

^^to me its more like WalMart has been treating employees like cattle for quite some time. These folks are really looking for a few dollars more per week and to be treated with respect.

 

[hans007]

who are you speaking for? We have and use them in our house.

Its a rapidly declining business anyway. We have stats at work on which states use them more and there are a few where they still have rising use ( mostly in the south). But still in decline

 

[Londo_Jowo]

who are you speaking for? We have and use them in our house.

I throw them away as fast as I get them. I use either Bing, yellow pages, or poynt app on my phone. Google works great on my computer or tablet.