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Walmart salaries approach living wage . . .

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BaliBabyDoc

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I should have known better than swallow their cheap generic drug plan. Once a pestilence upon society, always a pestilence upon society.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is pushing to create a cheaper, more flexible work force by capping wages, using more part-time workers and scheduling more staff on nights and weekends, The New York Times reported on Monday.
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Corporate says they need staffing changes to better serve their customers. IMO, if you are roaming WalMart at 2AM, you need more help than a person making $7/hr can offer.

Investment analysts and store managers say Wal-Mart executives have told them the company wants to transform its work force to 40 percent part-time from 20 percent, the Times reported.
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Can you imagine the effect of having the nation's largest private employer moving that many people to part-time status?

company officials said part-timers now comprise 25 percent to 30 percent of its workers, up from 20 percent last October, according to the newspaper.
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I wonder what Hilary will have to say about this one?
 
It seems like a great business decision by walmart...its just another way for them to keep prices low and keep sales high.
So it moves more people to part time making them either have to find another job or actually getting off their assess and getting educated to work somewhere better than walmart. I mean who truely has aspirations to work full time at walmart?
 
Originally posted by: BaliBabyDoc
Reuters via Yahoo
I should have known better than swallow their cheap generic drug plan. Once a pestilence upon society, always a pestilence upon society.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is pushing to create a cheaper, more flexible work force by capping wages, using more part-time workers and scheduling more staff on nights and weekends, The New York Times reported on Monday.
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Corporate says they need staffing changes to better serve their customers. IMO, if you are roaming WalMart at 2AM, you need more help than a person making $7/hr can offer.

Investment analysts and store managers say Wal-Mart executives have told them the company wants to transform its work force to 40 percent part-time from 20 percent, the Times reported.
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Can you imagine the effect of having the nation's largest private employer moving that many people to part-time status?

company officials said part-timers now comprise 25 percent to 30 percent of its workers, up from 20 percent last October, according to the newspaper.
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I wonder what Hilary will have to say about this one?
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Thanks for the heads up. I will update my Wally World thread.
 
Originally posted by: Drakkon
It seems like a great business decision by walmart...its just another way for them to keep prices low and keep sales high.
So it moves more people to part time making them either have to find another job or actually getting off their assess and getting educated to work somewhere better than walmart. I mean who truely has aspirations to work full time at walmart?
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That would be awesome, be great to see everyone quit Wally World, then let's see Walmart waller.
 
Originally posted by: Drakkon
It seems like a great business decision by walmart...its just another way for them to keep prices low and keep sales high.
So it moves more people to part time making them either have to find another job or actually getting off their assess and getting educated to work somewhere better than walmart. I mean who truely has aspirations to work full time at walmart?
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Business tactics like these are why labor unions came about in the first place and I for one hope the pendulum swings in the unions favor soon. Don't expect any mercy when it does, because if there is one thing the common person has had shoved down his throat is that in business, like war, ANYTHING is fair.
 
Often Corporations will do some "good" to cover the bad they do. I watched a documentary once that mentioned a major Corp that spent some $20k on some charitable thing, then started a $multi-million advertising campaign featuring the "good" they did. I don't recall any of the details, as the previous sentence shows( 😀 ), but Walmart is a master of deflection. Critics point out how Walmart stores destroy Town Centers, Walmart promotes all the "created" jobs. God forbid that the people of those Jobs attempt to organize(stores suddenly become "unprofitable") or even(in this case) expect fulltime employment.
 
Wal-Mart really wants the sort of image that it's various billion-dollar PR campaigns suggest, but unfortunately you cannot buy it. Instead it takes much more substantial efforts to be known a good corporate citizen. Efforts that Wal-Mart seems unwilling to make.
 
Originally posted by: Drakkon
It seems like a great business decision by walmart...its just another way for them to keep prices low and keep sales high.
So it moves more people to part time making them either have to find another job or actually getting off their assess and getting educated to work somewhere better than walmart. I mean who truely has aspirations to work full time at walmart?
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People who want health insurance or 401k's. Part-timers aren't eligible, so yeah , big cost saver for them.

:thumbsdown:
 
1 more reason to not shop at Whoremart.
I don't know why Target manages to have pretty much the same prices, but a much more upscale feel, but they do.

 
Originally posted by: senseamp
1 more reason to not shop at Whoremart.
I don't know why Target manages to have pretty much the same prices, but a much more upscale feel, but they do.
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Hmmm.... So instead of allowing them to move millions of workers from full time to part time, your solution is to put those workers out of a job entirely?

Good example of why the libs, after all the bluster, won't take the Congress back this year.
 
Originally posted by: ajf3
Originally posted by: senseamp
1 more reason to not shop at Whoremart.
I don't know why Target manages to have pretty much the same prices, but a much more upscale feel, but they do.
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Hmmm.... So instead of allowing them to move millions of workers from full time to part time, your solution is to put those workers out of a job entirely?

Good example of why the libs, after all the bluster, won't take the Congress back this year.
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Actually, it may be a good example of why the libs WILL take back control of Congress.
 
Originally posted by: ajf3
Originally posted by: senseamp
1 more reason to not shop at Whoremart.
I don't know why Target manages to have pretty much the same prices, but a much more upscale feel, but they do.
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Hmmm.... So instead of allowing them to move millions of workers from full time to part time, your solution is to put those workers out of a job entirely?

Good example of why the libs, after all the bluster, won't take the Congress back this year.
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Re-read what you said, that doesn't concern you at all?
 
Originally posted by: ajf3
Originally posted by: senseamp
1 more reason to not shop at Whoremart.
I don't know why Target manages to have pretty much the same prices, but a much more upscale feel, but they do.
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Hmmm.... So instead of allowing them to move millions of workers from full time to part time, your solution is to put those workers out of a job entirely?

Good example of why the libs, after all the bluster, won't take the Congress back this year.
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No, My solution is for those workers to get better jobs at Target, where I shop. Whoremart isn't the only place that hires people.
Good example of why cons, who have no common sense, shouldn't be lecturing others about economics, or anything else for that matter.
 
Originally posted by: Cooler
A national Wal-Mart strike would fix this problem...
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Kind of hard to strike without an organized labor union.

As for Wal-Mart, I dont know why they would move them to night, or weekends. That costs them more money. They pay night differential as well as weekend differential.

The majority of jobs as Wal Mart that are part time are cashiers and cart pushers.
 
Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Thanks for the heads up. I will update my Wally World thread.
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How about keeping the discussion here? Long threads with twenty million updates you're so fond of are completly useless (see ~IWANNA~ in hot deals). You can't keep track of a discussion of 20 different news pieces all in one thread...
 
Originally posted by: sandorski
Often Corporations will do some "good" to cover the bad they do. I watched a documentary once that mentioned a major Corp that spent some $20k on some charitable thing, then started a $multi-million advertising campaign featuring the "good" they did. I don't recall any of the details, as the previous sentence shows( 😀 ), but Walmart is a master of deflection. Critics point out how Walmart stores destroy Town Centers, Walmart promotes all the "created" jobs. God forbid that the people of those Jobs attempt to organize(stores suddenly become "unprofitable") or even(in this case) expect fulltime employment.
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One prominent example is pharmaceutical companies. When they give "free" samples to physician offices, the companies write off the retail cost of the drug despite the fact that the medications cost pennies to make. But physicians don't just give free samples to patients with low incomes. Many of the free samples are used by office staff. Some will go to patients regardless of income. Then Big Pharma claim in their advertisements that they give "X millions of dollars" each year in free medications.
 
Originally posted by: Wreckem
Originally posted by: Cooler
A national Wal-Mart strike would fix this problem...
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Kind of hard to strike without an organized labor union.

As for Wal-Mart, I dont know why they would move them to night, or weekends. That costs them more money. They pay night differential as well as weekend differential.

The majority of jobs as Wal Mart that are part time are cashiers and cart pushers.
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My guess is that as WMT pushes more people to part-time, the workers will have fewer options as to when they work. In essence, a larger workforce competing for fewer time slots. In that context, WMT will probably pay a substantially lower night/weekend differential than they did previously.
 
Originally posted by: senseamp
Originally posted by: ajf3
Originally posted by: senseamp
1 more reason to not shop at Whoremart.
I don't know why Target manages to have pretty much the same prices, but a much more upscale feel, but they do.
Click to expand...

Hmmm.... So instead of allowing them to move millions of workers from full time to part time, your solution is to put those workers out of a job entirely?

Good example of why the libs, after all the bluster, won't take the Congress back this year.
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No, My solution is for those workers to get better jobs at Target, where I shop. Whoremart isn't the only place that hires people.
Good example of why cons, who have no common sense, shouldn't be lecturing others about economics, or anything else for that matter.
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You dont actually think Target has a higher percentage of full-time workers, with bennies....do you? Or ANY retailer for that matter...

EDIT: Target is a worse employer than Wal Mart:

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A survey by the UFCW found that starting wages are similar in Targets and Wal-Marts -- possibly higher overall at Wal-Marts ? and that Target benefits packages are often harder to qualify for and less comprehensive.

A Target employee who asked that his name and store location be kept secret said he can barely make ends meet on his salary of $8.40 an hour.

?After three years, I have received less than $1 an hour in raises. I started at $7.65,? said the worker, adding that he does love his job because of camaraderie with his co-workers. ?We are never compensated and rarely even recognized for meeting our goals.?

In today?s market, could retail really be any different? Fair labor advocates think so. Hesse notes that in several unionized grocery stores in the Twin Cities, hourly wages hover around $13 to $17 an hour, roughly double Target?s. Now SuperTarget?s sale of groceries threatens the survival of union grocery stores.

Even other major big box retailers have managed to pay significantly higher wages and achieve higher employee retention. The prices at Costco Wholesale Corp., the nation?s fifth largest retailer, are competitive with those at Target and Wal-Mart, but it pays full-time employees an average of around $16 an hour along with generous health benefits.
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Target is no better than Wal Mart. Source: http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13508
 
The thing is there are actually people who WANT this kind of work and these kinds of hours....too bad you are all so short sighted you can't see that.

It fits thier needs, be it because of school, children's schedules, family obligations they may be a single parent on some sort of assistance and they can only make so much, if they go over they loose it.

It is the attitude of the pompus jacka$$es on the board that assume that everyoone who works at Walmart wants to work full time. Yet they turn around and place a label on those that work there saying what loosers they are.

Don't assume that what you want is the same desire everyone else has...eveyone leads a different life and who the hell are you to decide what is good for someone else?

Isn't that like the religious right telling everyone they are going to hell because they don't beleve in the same God?

The fact those that want to move up and do well at Walmart can, just like anywhere else. Walmart does what it does to keep prices low for the people who shop there.

Don't like their business practices? Don't shop there...go to Target, or Kmart or wherever, but if you do don't bitch because the prices are higher when they have to pay a better wage and provide insurance.

Many stores are no different than Walmart, yes including the mom & pop stores, the thing is Walmart happens to be the big kid on the block....if it were Target in that position, the same stuff would be said about them, it really makes no difference.


<----not a Walmart employee btw. Just an observation because I actually talk to employees while I shop there.
 
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