They build in Triads, Supercenter or converted Supercenter and two Markets, they blanket populated areas even at the cost of taking business away from one another.
There is a Walmart 10 minutes away, you can find a Walmart in any location without knowing where their located, it's really brillant marketing, but at the cost of the smaller retailers.
100 years ago every town had a General Store, hardline, food, clothes, etc. Walmart is the new General Store of the world. Low prices, low wages.
Walmart is a cancer this country and want to destroy the American Dream by taking out all competition. They move into small towns and suck them dry and then move out. Walmart is parasite that must end for the sake of our country. They are ran by racist and only want to hire out to illegals.
Nothing but a pile of trash with a price tag! Almost everything I buy there breaks within the first couple of days or couple of months. They barely pay their employees minimum wage and then throw them away like a peice of trash when they don't perform. They have cameras to protect their stuff but when something is stolen out from your car they don't stinking care. The prices aren't lower. Flimsy, lead filled, poisionous, preserva Let's give ourselves a Christmas present and not shop there!
Wal-Mart sells a high quality dog food & a high quality dog teeth cleaning treat that are made in America - That's about the only quality USA made pet products in Wal-Mart . Electronics & hard goods merchandise are made in Asia.
Wal-Mart's Midwest USA competitor Meijer does a much better job identifying country of origin for grocery products. I don't trust the grocery products at Wal-Mart. The cashiers at Meijer seem to like their job. The happy Wal-Mart cashier is a rarity.
I have the luxury of being both a FORMER Walmart employee AND a CURRENT Walmart employee. When I got fired, I hated Walmart instead of facing my attitude problem, but I came back; and today I think Walmart is the best company in the world. If you want to succeed there, you must respect the individual. That means co-workers, customers, management, and the company at large. Disgruntled employees bitch and moan because that is easier than manning up to their sorry, pathetic attitude issues.
There is actually no "plague" to be seen in that map at all. Except for a very narrow strip along the ocean on the west coast, 90% of the stores are all redundantly concentrated strictly in the southeast. there is virtually nothing to be seen in the entire northeast, the midwest, the northwest or southwest. It is indeed a gigantic L-shaped area of almost totally BLANK space, as if Walmart is avoiding it like... the plague!
@themredweirdoshow It's pretty concentrated in the northeast, FYI. The reason that the midwest, northwest and southwest have fewer Wal-Marts is because those regions have FEWER PEOPLE.
I live in Wyoming - our population barely cracks 500,000. It's obvious why we would only need 10 Wal-Marts in the entire state, and why Wal-Mart wouldn't waste so much money building new ones here.
Because there are barely any wal marts in the midwest thats why...and in a related note birth control boast a 98% effciency in most preventable pregancy!!
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i don't know why people like wal mart most of the stuff they sell is total crap- crap for sale crap for sale-- i guess the fat stupid people like to buy cheap crap
@lowaces Actually poor people cant afford better products. Wal-Mart pisses me off in many aspects but it does raise the standard of living for many poor people who cant afford better products.
@slingshot2427 i've been to wal mart enough times to know not to go there any more -- i usually end up looking at the fat people ankles as they aimlessly push thier carts around looking for crap -- now i'm more of an internet shopper
This is like watching a giant pimple grow on your face...and then it just keeps growing...and then you realize it isn't a pimple, it's herpes, and there are a bunch of them, all over your mouth and face. But you know what, Wal-Mart is operating a nearly perfect neoliberalist corporate model. We either need to rid ourselves of neoloberalism, the real cancer here, or learn to deal with the effects of our chosen market strategy (BTW, our market strategy is turn everything over to big business).
@bluesmaster14701 new york city and I think it's because as new yorkers we don't support big business markets like that, we like or corner stores and local grocery store cuz u can go in there and not have enough money or no money at all and they will allow u to pay them back and sometimes give u stuff for free... Big business wouldn't do that, they about.. I kno there's some in westchester and up state ny but not in manhatten or the Bronx we love local stores
@akasy1 i think there are over 4k walmarts and like 3.5k sam's ..then you have all the sub companys they own in the US.
i live in the town it all started in, you cant go any city in the AR/OK/MO/KS area without seeing a walmart, or a sams, or a neighborhood market. they kill the local business with low prices, drawing in consumers like sheep. During that process they also strangle vendors with twisted market tactics and the vendors continue to put up with it....because its Walmart.
@bluesmaster14701 new york city, and I think it's because as new yorkers we don't support big business markets like that, we like or corner stores and local grocery store cuz u can go in there and not have enough money or no money at all and they will allow u to pay them back and sometimes give u stuff for free... Big business wouldn't do that, they about.. I kno there's some in westchester and up state ny but not in manhatten or the Bronx we love local stores
No, really. Sureree knows what he's talking about.
He may not have expressed himself eloquently, but WalMart does fire the good employees.
They do this because it's monkey work (I used to be one of their monkeys), and good employees expect raises, benefits, and tend to stay long enough to accrue more/better opportunities.
I worked at Walmart for 2 years. They keep wages down by constantly turning over their workforce. About every six months, the entire staff will be different.
It's completely unnecessary for them to have good, long term employees, because generally people can be taught to do any job in a Walmart store in less than a week (usually within the first day).
Good employees last longer, hence they get paid more, and have more vacation time, so they're fired for ridiculous reasons.
It honestly happens.
That $15 per hour employee is replaced by an $8 per hour employee, and because of the nature of the work, productivity is barely lowered.
I used to work for Walmart. It's a TERRIBLE place to work. I love the Penn and Teller show, and generally agree with what Penn Jilette says, but he WAS painfully wrong when it comes to Walmart. Walmart is NOT good company because it gives jobs to the underclass.
Walmart TERRIBLY mistreats its underclass employees, but the only other option is a system that creates MORE underclass people to be taken advantage of by the government instead of by corporations.
true communism does not kill those who oppose them.(although look at the death toll caused by "proper" government in comparison) like any belief, theory or way of life it can be held to extremes that are the result of a common day hitler ( by that i mean a great rally-er, one who has the ability to call mass hysteria frenzy and followers)
@hossrex I used to think like you do, but then I realized life is about minding your own business. Employees with respect and humility don't get fired. It is when you get bossy, or cocky, over-confident, or lax, that problems appear. The minute you think you're a "good employee", you stop being worth a dime. If Walmart strived to get rid of good employees, most management wouldn't have started off at the bottom, and the company wouldn't have hordes of 10, 20, 30, and 40 year associates.
@JoshuaH688: "Employees with respect and humility don't get fired."
That's not true. You've obviously never worked for Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart is monkey work. Anyone can do it. A ten year veteran making $15 dollars per hour is only going to be MARGINALLY more valuable than any idiot with an hours worth of training.
So Wal-Mart will manufacture reasons to fire people making more than a couple bucks more than minimum wage. It's impossible to prove you weren't a slow or lazy worker.
What the store hopes for... and I mean this with all sincerity... is that the "good" employee reapplies after 90 days (the minimum time), and rejoins the staff with a complete loss of benefits, accrued time, and wages.
It happens because it's monkey work. Anyone can do it. Some may do it better, but a monkey that can open a banana in 5 seconds isn't all that much more useful than a monkey that can open a banana in 7 seconds... especially if the first monkey wants twice as many bananas.
WALMART LABOR FACT: They fire all the good employees and keep the bad ones. They sometimes go on "firing sprees" the impose "hiring freezes" causing overworked, exhausted employees. They continue to look for stupid reasons to fire people such as not clocking out at 5:59 and bullshit like that!
Over a quarter Billion dollars were donated by Wal-mart to children's miracle network, st. joseph's hospital and other "by donations only organizations." They provide medical necessities to families of children who can't afford the costly health coverage for a cancerous children (most don't). Only in America would we protest "give more to the poor!" but protest them paying much less for food, clothes, supplies, etc. . . This country's days are numbered--due to its citizens.
A lot of that money that Wal-Mart donated to Children's Miracle Network came from employee's and customers. I'm not sure of the percentage, but I would be willing to bet the majority of it came from the employee's and the customer's. If Wal-Mart Corporation gave any significant amount, I would be surprised.
Wow, I'm a moron huh? Nice way to talk intelligently to someone who made a comment. I know for a fact that a lot of the money donated to Children's Miracle Network comes from employee donations and from customers. Wal-Mart may match the money raised, or go over that amount to donate to CMN but I did not assume anything. I know for a fact that a significant amount donated to CMN comes from customers and employees. How do I know that? Because I've sold enough balloons to customers for CMN.
Sure, laugh it up and neg rate my comments, ... but when your U.S. economy is destitute and collapses this year, you have no internal production facilities to work your way out of the mess or even supply yourselves the goods that you can no longer afford to buy-in, ... don't expect any help from the multinational corporates that raped your country - some of which directly received bailouts of ***YOUR*** money.
Lemmingherda: "don't expect any help from the multinational corporates that raped your country"
You say that like it was the American people lining up at a collection plate to hand out 700 billion dollars to the multinational corporations.
We're a Republic, not a Democracy, and in a Republic things happen slow. Every representative we have (be they congressman, senators, or the president) was elected because of the LAST problem, not the current mess.
McConsumer; *SNAP* My first thought was "gee, I wonder if anyone has told the CDC!" hahaha
Anyone who mistakenly thinks each one of those "Dots" means more U.S. jobs, ... guess again, each one of those dots represents the death of a plethora of small U.S. stores (most of which would have been selling U.S. made goods) and the local culture around them, loss of their employees jobs, the conversion of people onto the corporations slave wages and flooding the area with badly made Chinese goods.
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another lazy idiot surmising a phenomenon without investigation that brands a catch phrase for the idiot Masses to agree
you think the conquering psyche from Alexander to Hitler suddenly that breed of man has disappeared. they have traded in their military uniforms for business suits and bombers for mega stores
their goal is still the same to conquer and destroy until theres nothing left to ruin but themselves
Idiot? Who exactly is it that make false assumptions on very general phrases? Look at the spread of Wal-Marts. Just like an organism finding environments where it flourishes. Not only in business but the same phenomenon can be seen in the growth of cities, the dissemination of info on the net, and others.
I didn't "brand a catch phrase" it was already out there. I merely commented on the aptness of such a metaphor. I made no mention of motives, only the patterns those motives manifest as.
Not necessarily. Maybe it's just that we are not as self directed as e think. I mean, if our patterns end up looking the same as patterns from bacteria, can e really say that it is us that is responsible for these achievements? Something along those lines.
I think that these patterns are greatly influenced by the fact that they (or WE) are in a closed, limited space, much like a fishbowl.
As for the question whether or not it is us that influences our 'patterns'..well, yes and no, because we are natural, but only, so far, have a limited amount of space and resources to work with...idk.
do you think that people really enjoy where they shop? or do they shop because they absolutely have to for basic vital needs, despite the aggrivation of poor service and product quality?
Must be nice to live in a major metropolis, Yamamamanama. WalMart is practically the only store in town where I live, outside of a couple of dollar stores. Didn't used to be that way but it is now. Sad indeed. Thanks a lot, Wal Mart.
addisontexas, because Wal-Mart focuses on the lower price, a weakening dollar only helps the company in that more people will come to Wal-Mart to try to maximize what they make. As far as China is concerned, Wal-Mart will do whatever is necessary to bring lower prices to its customers, even if it means having stuff manufactured in China--thats business. Thats Wal-Mart! Go Wal-Mart!!!
I bet you are one of those uneducated people that work as a cashier and weight 300 pounds and have little teeth in your mouth and make a dollar an hour.
This is true. From an economic point of view they are just doing what all businesses try to do- maximize shareholder wealth.
However, there may be long term side effects since much of the goods sold comes from China, adding to the trade US trade imbalance. Also, there is the side effect of suburban style big box stores replacing traditional urban store fronts, contributing to urban sprawl.
Nothing can stop them except for the falling value of the US Dollar.
not to mention the fact that in this country... this GREEEAAAT!!!! government/alongside of the IRS, lies to us in a reform inclusion that we have to pay for federal income tax out of our wages that we bust our asses for... They are stealing your money from your paycheck, every week, evey two weeks, out of your commissions...that you work hard for.... they tax our asses enough on the gas, and supplies to barely survive out here!! We have to pay for water that they reuse and chemically treat!!
I'm going to college.....if people don't like WAl-Mart....don't shop their......many people support WAlmart by buying its merchandise.....
I am going to college....Capitalims rocks....
Power corrupts....absolute power corrupts absolutely.....but it rocks absolutely to.....
it wouldn't hurt for Wal-Mart to have a bit more competition.....but Wal-Mart will eventually have to have its end.....the mastermnds behind it won't live forever....
Sigh, another billion dollar corporation ripping off everyone. From its workers that it cheats by unpaid overtime, and jimmying hours of their records. Or paying selling a toy for 14.98 which cost 18 cents to build..
Not everyone has the choice to go to college. Just because you could make that choice doesn't mean everyone has it that easy.
And there should be decent options for people who don't want to go to college. No one deserves to make $6 an hour just because they didn't go to school.
now walmarts slowly taking over the world...they're building on in germany....hahahahaha...hahahaha...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. starbucks and walmart are going to rule the world in the year 2034
I don't blame it on Wal-Mart blame it on everyone having sex and thinking more kids are the answer. Wal-mart is only part of the problem. It's overpopulation stupids!
If it wasn't Wal-Mart it might just be another dollar store to take it's place with stuff made in China to fill the demand.
To be honest with you, Until WalMart Came to Canada, Prices were very high, I used to pay 13 bucks for my chev 20 van oil filter at Canadian Tire, that same year wall mart came to town Fram Filter 4.99, Its not all bad if your not ritch,
Walmarts in the USA fire people who try to start unions... They encourage thier employees to file for welfare and federal health care... We, the american people, pay over 1 billion dollars in taxes to support Walmart employees for welfare and federal health care
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Wal-Mart is able to provide low prices because it has perfected logistics and "just-in-time delivery." There are no intermediary warehouses, because the stores themselves are the warehouses. And since there are workers present overnight anyway (stocking the shelves), the organization has smartly decided to remain open 24 hours a day. Wal-Mart employs plenty of Americans, provides low-price products for plenty more, and ensures a competitive free market.
No compitition you say? Well it kills and has killed many other smaller businesses. It is a monster eating other smaller monsters. Yes, compitition with this one is greatly sized.
yeah, if you took enconomics you would know why this is bad for the average person, great for the top 10%. lower prices always lead to lower wages. I dare you to try and support a family on 8.00 an hour. Thanks retail. thanks for killing my country.
EntourageMan- Have you been in a Walmart? There are tons of people working there that are over 20. And even teenagers deserve to make over $7/hr... You can't save for college with that kind of money, you can barely buy a car.
where is it written anywhere that says walmart has to pay anyone over minimum wage? minimum wage is set by the government not walmart. and most company's if your work performance is minimum you get payed minimum. i hear a lotta deadbeats complaining about there pay, when they didnt even work for half of it.
this has to be one of the more ignorant things ive heard in a while... in all reality you get what you pay for... pay your workers less, expect less work, less loyalty, less everything... to me it seems to be a bad business practice, you know exploiting workers for their need to pay bills and stuff... but that just me
Actually, that's corporate capitalism. Capitalism was the mom and pop grocery store, the greeting card store and the pharmacy that went out-of-business when the BIG store came to town. But hey - prices are down, and in today's economy folks like you and I need low prices. Too bad low prices leave little main streets full of empty store-fronts.
Looks like a graph I seen in school when the Nazi's were taking over Europe.Only difference is No concentration camps but abusive child labor in China.Anyone feel like doing the Walmart cheer?
From what I can tell on here, those in favor of Wal-Mart, defend it b/c they shop there, they like saving a buck, etc. And the people who are opposed to it have learned about the company beyond merely shopping there, the things that allow them to have those low prices.
Things like pseudo-slave labor in foreign countries, unfair government subsidies at the local and national level ($1 billion in 2005), paying low wages, not providing affordable health care for employees and encouraging them to get Medicaid ($1.5 billion in 2005), not to mention ignoring environmental regulations, safety precautions in their vast parking lots, and destroying Main Streets across the country...
Everyone should watch Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices. It is a very informative DVD that breaks down the many negative impacts that Wal-Mart has globally and locally. It IS about ideology, because it is the ideology of WalMart that allows you to enjoy their low prices at countless other's expense.
Walmart does not require any annoying savings cards! thank you Walmart! No rebates needed, no membership... The discount is already there! That is why i shop at Walmart!
So a company that supports America and actually has plenty of people working who are available to help customers is as bad or worse than a company who supports foreign countries cheaply and dangerous products just to make a buck, oh and they treeat their employees horribly. Wow you need to open your eyes there.
Looks like a virus outbrake. I find it strange that the US government can't see how this is bad for the economy for US citisens. There are hardly any US goods sold in WM. Mostly made in China, Mexico etc. Politicians have a 4 year lifespan...
If you love Wal-Mart, research the effects it has to small businesses. dozens of other reasons why wal-mart is evil, but that one is just a start. They also fund slavery in places like haiti and china. Well just go look it up and you will see
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It's like a disease
FDashB 1 month ago
It's like a disease
FDashB 1 month ago
They build in Triads, Supercenter or converted Supercenter and two Markets, they blanket populated areas even at the cost of taking business away from one another.
There is a Walmart 10 minutes away, you can find a Walmart in any location without knowing where their located, it's really brillant marketing, but at the cost of the smaller retailers.
100 years ago every town had a General Store, hardline, food, clothes, etc. Walmart is the new General Store of the world. Low prices, low wages.
reeltrouble 6 months ago
@reeltrouble Exactly. Pathetic.
randyseck 3 months ago
Walmart is a cancer this country and want to destroy the American Dream by taking out all competition. They move into small towns and suck them dry and then move out. Walmart is parasite that must end for the sake of our country. They are ran by racist and only want to hire out to illegals.
historyboy08 7 months ago
How many did they build near their existing store and then shut down/abandon the old location? That local governments can't stop that pisses me off.
cochranexyz 8 months ago
Cancer..
talgoam 1 year ago
Nothing but a pile of trash with a price tag! Almost everything I buy there breaks within the first couple of days or couple of months. They barely pay their employees minimum wage and then throw them away like a peice of trash when they don't perform. They have cameras to protect their stuff but when something is stolen out from your car they don't stinking care. The prices aren't lower. Flimsy, lead filled, poisionous, preserva Let's give ourselves a Christmas present and not shop there!
hopecharmer 1 year ago
Wal-Mart sells a high quality dog food & a high quality dog teeth cleaning treat that are made in America - That's about the only quality USA made pet products in Wal-Mart . Electronics & hard goods merchandise are made in Asia.
Wal-Mart's Midwest USA competitor Meijer does a much better job identifying country of origin for grocery products. I don't trust the grocery products at Wal-Mart. The cashiers at Meijer seem to like their job. The happy Wal-Mart cashier is a rarity.
2cOthers 1 year ago
It looks like cancer o.O
Xshaped 1 year ago
I have the luxury of being both a FORMER Walmart employee AND a CURRENT Walmart employee. When I got fired, I hated Walmart instead of facing my attitude problem, but I came back; and today I think Walmart is the best company in the world. If you want to succeed there, you must respect the individual. That means co-workers, customers, management, and the company at large. Disgruntled employees bitch and moan because that is easier than manning up to their sorry, pathetic attitude issues.
JoshuaH688 1 year ago 2
This is what Metastasized cancer looks like.
manmanguy 1 year ago
Yea, so it will be on the HOTSPOT where most people gathered,.
walmartgiftcards 1 year ago
There is actually no "plague" to be seen in that map at all. Except for a very narrow strip along the ocean on the west coast, 90% of the stores are all redundantly concentrated strictly in the southeast. there is virtually nothing to be seen in the entire northeast, the midwest, the northwest or southwest. It is indeed a gigantic L-shaped area of almost totally BLANK space, as if Walmart is avoiding it like... the plague!
themredweirdoshow 1 year ago
@themredweirdoshow It's pretty concentrated in the northeast, FYI. The reason that the midwest, northwest and southwest have fewer Wal-Marts is because those regions have FEWER PEOPLE.
I live in Wyoming - our population barely cracks 500,000. It's obvious why we would only need 10 Wal-Marts in the entire state, and why Wal-Mart wouldn't waste so much money building new ones here.
wyominGangsta 1 year ago
Because there are barely any wal marts in the midwest thats why...and in a related note birth control boast a 98% effciency in most preventable pregancy!!
UnRhetoricalVideos 1 year ago
The only thing this proves that the midwest is still a shitty place to live :D
UnRhetoricalVideos 1 year ago
@UnRhetoricalVideos how? that makes no sense
IndustrialSizeSniper 1 year ago
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Aniusiax1 1 year ago
i don't know why people like wal mart most of the stuff they sell is total crap- crap for sale crap for sale-- i guess the fat stupid people like to buy cheap crap
lowaces 1 year ago
@lowaces Actually poor people cant afford better products. Wal-Mart pisses me off in many aspects but it does raise the standard of living for many poor people who cant afford better products.
slingshot2427 1 year ago
@slingshot2427 i've been to wal mart enough times to know not to go there any more -- i usually end up looking at the fat people ankles as they aimlessly push thier carts around looking for crap -- now i'm more of an internet shopper
lowaces 1 year ago
This is like watching a giant pimple grow on your face...and then it just keeps growing...and then you realize it isn't a pimple, it's herpes, and there are a bunch of them, all over your mouth and face. But you know what, Wal-Mart is operating a nearly perfect neoliberalist corporate model. We either need to rid ourselves of neoloberalism, the real cancer here, or learn to deal with the effects of our chosen market strategy (BTW, our market strategy is turn everything over to big business).
TeeterCamo 1 year ago
MONOPOLY
TheEmpireFutures 1 year ago
@bluesmaster14701 new york city and I think it's because as new yorkers we don't support big business markets like that, we like or corner stores and local grocery store cuz u can go in there and not have enough money or no money at all and they will allow u to pay them back and sometimes give u stuff for free... Big business wouldn't do that, they about.. I kno there's some in westchester and up state ny but not in manhatten or the Bronx we love local stores
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amiirasdf 1 year ago
Walmart has taken over the world.
VloggerGal90 1 year ago
omg if that wil continue its wil be like BNL!!
(frum the movie WALL-E)
xxbbxxbbful 1 year ago
This shit is retarted there's is not that many walmarts in ny...
akasy1 2 years ago
@akasy1 i think there are over 4k walmarts and like 3.5k sam's ..then you have all the sub companys they own in the US.
i live in the town it all started in, you cant go any city in the AR/OK/MO/KS area without seeing a walmart, or a sams, or a neighborhood market. they kill the local business with low prices, drawing in consumers like sheep. During that process they also strangle vendors with twisted market tactics and the vendors continue to put up with it....because its Walmart.
ThePixelChaos 2 years ago
@akasy1 New York city or New York State?
bluesmaster14701 1 year ago
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@bluesmaster14701 new york city, and I think it's because as new yorkers we don't support big business markets like that, we like or corner stores and local grocery store cuz u can go in there and not have enough money or no money at all and they will allow u to pay them back and sometimes give u stuff for free... Big business wouldn't do that, they about.. I kno there's some in westchester and up state ny but not in manhatten or the Bronx we love local stores
akasy1 1 year ago
Wal-Mart is like the Borg...resistance is futile!
84750467 2 years ago
Walmart is like dislexsic Borg.. resistance is futile, your ass will be laminated!
JaniceParton 2 years ago
Logistics - just like any successful total war campaign
OghamTheBold 2 years ago
I'd like to see a superimposed animation of lost manufacturing jobs since 1962.
jnelson5446 2 years ago
So.....how many Starbucks are there?
jamesn6g32 2 years ago 8
@jamesn6g32 Twice as many as there are wal marts.
musubi69 1 year ago
@jamesn6g32 17,133 stores in 49 countries, including 11,068 in the United States, nearly 1,000 in Canada and more than 800 in Japan.
stratman06 1 year ago
f u Walmart=DDD
vj198 2 years ago 3
WALMART is just better at business than its competitors...
ClarksonsinUSA 2 years ago
Or a tough to get rid of rash
surname07 2 years ago
walmart ftw
thrashermario 2 years ago
walmart is helping communist china destroy America
themeaningoflife38 2 years ago
wrong. wall street and bxsh did it.
yycc111 2 years ago
walmart- the secret weapon for global domination.
eltraitor 2 years ago 2
it is just like a zombie fest...
Trying to overtake our society...
AND they only fire the STRONG, WISE employee - because they are smart unlike the WEAK, USED employees...
This should be posted on Fail Blog...
SUPER FUNNY
abcvirus1 2 years ago 2
Also sounds like the Soviet Union.
scarecrow6524 2 years ago
No, really. Sureree knows what he's talking about.
He may not have expressed himself eloquently, but WalMart does fire the good employees.
They do this because it's monkey work (I used to be one of their monkeys), and good employees expect raises, benefits, and tend to stay long enough to accrue more/better opportunities.
I worked at Walmart for 2 years. They keep wages down by constantly turning over their workforce. About every six months, the entire staff will be different.
hossrex 2 years ago
It's completely unnecessary for them to have good, long term employees, because generally people can be taught to do any job in a Walmart store in less than a week (usually within the first day).
Good employees last longer, hence they get paid more, and have more vacation time, so they're fired for ridiculous reasons.
It honestly happens.
That $15 per hour employee is replaced by an $8 per hour employee, and because of the nature of the work, productivity is barely lowered.
hossrex 2 years ago 2
That's the very definition of being CORRUPT
Wehrmacht63 2 years ago
Oh well... someday we'll live in a world where everyone will have an above average income.
Capitalism may be unfair, but communism is the equal distribution of poverty.
hossrex 2 years ago
lol true....and not to mention that communism kills all those who oppose them. Hence communism having murdered over 115 million people
Wehrmacht63 2 years ago
I used to work for Walmart. It's a TERRIBLE place to work. I love the Penn and Teller show, and generally agree with what Penn Jilette says, but he WAS painfully wrong when it comes to Walmart. Walmart is NOT good company because it gives jobs to the underclass.
Walmart TERRIBLY mistreats its underclass employees, but the only other option is a system that creates MORE underclass people to be taken advantage of by the government instead of by corporations.
Walmart=bad.
Alternative=worse.
hossrex 2 years ago 2
Penn is a buffoon who thinks logic is yelling "fuck you" at the camera.
itpduder 2 years ago
true communism does not kill those who oppose them.(although look at the death toll caused by "proper" government in comparison) like any belief, theory or way of life it can be held to extremes that are the result of a common day hitler ( by that i mean a great rally-er, one who has the ability to call mass hysteria frenzy and followers)
aliciadinia 2 years ago
The same people that invented communism invented Capitalism
MsCivilwar 2 years ago
@hossrex I used to think like you do, but then I realized life is about minding your own business. Employees with respect and humility don't get fired. It is when you get bossy, or cocky, over-confident, or lax, that problems appear. The minute you think you're a "good employee", you stop being worth a dime. If Walmart strived to get rid of good employees, most management wouldn't have started off at the bottom, and the company wouldn't have hordes of 10, 20, 30, and 40 year associates.
JoshuaH688 1 year ago
@JoshuaH688: "Employees with respect and humility don't get fired."
That's not true. You've obviously never worked for Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart is monkey work. Anyone can do it. A ten year veteran making $15 dollars per hour is only going to be MARGINALLY more valuable than any idiot with an hours worth of training.
So Wal-Mart will manufacture reasons to fire people making more than a couple bucks more than minimum wage. It's impossible to prove you weren't a slow or lazy worker.
hossrex 1 year ago
What the store hopes for... and I mean this with all sincerity... is that the "good" employee reapplies after 90 days (the minimum time), and rejoins the staff with a complete loss of benefits, accrued time, and wages.
It happens because it's monkey work. Anyone can do it. Some may do it better, but a monkey that can open a banana in 5 seconds isn't all that much more useful than a monkey that can open a banana in 7 seconds... especially if the first monkey wants twice as many bananas.
hossrex 2 years ago 3
WALMART LABOR FACT: They fire all the good employees and keep the bad ones. They sometimes go on "firing sprees" the impose "hiring freezes" causing overworked, exhausted employees. They continue to look for stupid reasons to fire people such as not clocking out at 5:59 and bullshit like that!
surferee 2 years ago 2
They fire all 'good' employees?
A statement like that is so absurd I hardly know where to start.
For one, how successful can a company be by keeping only the slackers?
Wal-Mart has been rock-steady through this recession while the unionized US Auto companies are sinking like a rock.
Rather than trashing Wal-Mart with absurd lies and distortions, why not follow their example?
GasCityGuy 2 years ago
I know what I'm talking about because I am a FORMER Walmart employee. You obviously never have and therefore, not affected by Walmart.
surferee 2 years ago 8
um... im so confused... wats the point of this video?? some people just take up useful space on youtube
ddancer95 2 years ago
it's like a plague is spreading across america!
wick2185 3 years ago
Im moving to nevada
iLoveJerryHsu 3 years ago 4
Over a quarter Billion dollars were donated by Wal-mart to children's miracle network, st. joseph's hospital and other "by donations only organizations." They provide medical necessities to families of children who can't afford the costly health coverage for a cancerous children (most don't). Only in America would we protest "give more to the poor!" but protest them paying much less for food, clothes, supplies, etc. . . This country's days are numbered--due to its citizens.
jmk1a1 3 years ago
A lot of that money that Wal-Mart donated to Children's Miracle Network came from employee's and customers. I'm not sure of the percentage, but I would be willing to bet the majority of it came from the employee's and the customer's. If Wal-Mart Corporation gave any significant amount, I would be surprised.
ogswpd 3 years ago
you assume incorrectly moron. In my area walmart and the waltons have donated millions of dollars to schools libraries and boys and girls clubs
jajjaj3 3 years ago
Wow, I'm a moron huh? Nice way to talk intelligently to someone who made a comment. I know for a fact that a lot of the money donated to Children's Miracle Network comes from employee donations and from customers. Wal-Mart may match the money raised, or go over that amount to donate to CMN but I did not assume anything. I know for a fact that a significant amount donated to CMN comes from customers and employees. How do I know that? Because I've sold enough balloons to customers for CMN.
ogswpd 3 years ago
Wal-mart is also in Canada :D
polinapel 3 years ago
Wal-Mart sucks period
gungadin36 3 years ago
Man I wish I had bought walmart stock back in 1964.
idoubtit2 3 years ago 3
Man I wish I had bought walmart stock back in 1964.me to
jigglehomes 3 years ago
Why pay more somewhere else?
Cheiracanthium 3 years ago
I love Walmart, the name brand foods are cheaper than the store brands at my supermarket.
k9feces 3 years ago 4
If you buy products from Walmart you are doing nothing, ***NOTHING*** productive for yourself, your neighbours, your community, or your country.
LemmingHerda 3 years ago
Yeah, have some pride and pay more money out of your pocket for the exact same product at Kmart!
lainwate 3 years ago
Sure, laugh it up and neg rate my comments, ... but when your U.S. economy is destitute and collapses this year, you have no internal production facilities to work your way out of the mess or even supply yourselves the goods that you can no longer afford to buy-in, ... don't expect any help from the multinational corporates that raped your country - some of which directly received bailouts of ***YOUR*** money.
LemmingHerda 3 years ago
Lemmingherda: "don't expect any help from the multinational corporates that raped your country"
You say that like it was the American people lining up at a collection plate to hand out 700 billion dollars to the multinational corporations.
We're a Republic, not a Democracy, and in a Republic things happen slow. Every representative we have (be they congressman, senators, or the president) was elected because of the LAST problem, not the current mess.
The other option is dictatorship.
hossrex 3 years ago
Democracy or dictatorship? Yeah, those are our only options. Forget about Politi, Aristocracy, Communism, and every other form of government.
ElectricChain 2 years ago 2
Yes, also forget about anarchy. That's not an option either.
ybworld 2 years ago
McConsumer; *SNAP* My first thought was "gee, I wonder if anyone has told the CDC!" hahaha
Anyone who mistakenly thinks each one of those "Dots" means more U.S. jobs, ... guess again, each one of those dots represents the death of a plethora of small U.S. stores (most of which would have been selling U.S. made goods) and the local culture around them, loss of their employees jobs, the conversion of people onto the corporations slave wages and flooding the area with badly made Chinese goods.
LemmingHerda 3 years ago
i see jobs coming to towns all over america!
hindview 3 years ago
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WorldWarTwoSELLER 3 years ago
I swear, everything humans do looks like bacteria spreading.
McConsumer 3 years ago 3
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another lazy idiot surmising a phenomenon without investigation that brands a catch phrase for the idiot Masses to agree
you think the conquering psyche from Alexander to Hitler suddenly that breed of man has disappeared. they have traded in their military uniforms for business suits and bombers for mega stores
their goal is still the same to conquer and destroy until theres nothing left to ruin but themselves
godscuttingyoudown 3 years ago
Idiot? Who exactly is it that make false assumptions on very general phrases? Look at the spread of Wal-Marts. Just like an organism finding environments where it flourishes. Not only in business but the same phenomenon can be seen in the growth of cities, the dissemination of info on the net, and others.
I didn't "brand a catch phrase" it was already out there. I merely commented on the aptness of such a metaphor. I made no mention of motives, only the patterns those motives manifest as.
McConsumer 3 years ago
you consider 'bacteria' to be a bad thing?
ratcrib 3 years ago
Not necessarily. Maybe it's just that we are not as self directed as e think. I mean, if our patterns end up looking the same as patterns from bacteria, can e really say that it is us that is responsible for these achievements? Something along those lines.
McConsumer 3 years ago
I think that these patterns are greatly influenced by the fact that they (or WE) are in a closed, limited space, much like a fishbowl.
As for the question whether or not it is us that influences our 'patterns'..well, yes and no, because we are natural, but only, so far, have a limited amount of space and resources to work with...idk.
ratcrib 3 years ago
Why do people blame Wal-Mart when it's themselves and their neighbors who CHOOSE to shop there?
ybworld 3 years ago 2
do you think that people really enjoy where they shop? or do they shop because they absolutely have to for basic vital needs, despite the aggrivation of poor service and product quality?
surferee 2 years ago
I feel what you are saying. The solution is to open up a competing business. I know the system is rigged, too. But that is the correct solution.
ybworld 2 years ago
"nothing stays the same, ohh i'm sure you have your target and probably k-mart..nothing against them right?
ybworld 3 years ago
It's just business,dude..
Unclem360 3 years ago
Wow, if life is jest a shoppin'center...then why is tryin' to be a casino?
seansarto 3 years ago
Wall Mart thats full of those Shop in Canada too
vadont 3 years ago
"nothing stays the same, ohh i'm sure you have your target and probably k-mart..nothing against them right?
hindview 3 years ago
the east side is more blue then west.
sim5191 3 years ago
Walmart must be stopped at all costs. What's next, the pledge of Allegiance being changed to "One nation, under Walmart"?
johnnyprobes007 3 years ago
there are 2 walmarts in my town
dtmxtimy14 3 years ago
how about we call it NEW WORLD ORDER MART? Same trading deals, recalls, etc?
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malkylle 3 years ago
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bowtech333 3 years ago
lol and they're still going strong.
Everyone loves to bash Wal Mart, but we all know you shop there
JBMileyNLT 3 years ago 3
I don't.
Yamamanama 3 years ago
Must be nice to live in a major metropolis, Yamamamanama. WalMart is practically the only store in town where I live, outside of a couple of dollar stores. Didn't used to be that way but it is now. Sad indeed. Thanks a lot, Wal Mart.
Nacalina007 3 years ago
diseases spread fast!
zakk615 3 years ago
We have 4 wal marts where i live.
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yanster420 3 years ago
Wal-Mart sucks they ruin towns... give jobs to illegals and the chinese and destroy U.S. factory jobs
PhilliChzStk 3 years ago
DUMASS
fguzman77 3 years ago
addisontexas, because Wal-Mart focuses on the lower price, a weakening dollar only helps the company in that more people will come to Wal-Mart to try to maximize what they make. As far as China is concerned, Wal-Mart will do whatever is necessary to bring lower prices to its customers, even if it means having stuff manufactured in China--thats business. Thats Wal-Mart! Go Wal-Mart!!!
techguyjames 3 years ago
I bet you are one of those uneducated people that work as a cashier and weight 300 pounds and have little teeth in your mouth and make a dollar an hour.
rebmayab 3 years ago
looks a lot like.... cancer.
mkabbz 3 years ago 9
maybe we should change the name of our country to wal-mart
YourABelligerentFool 3 years ago 2
Walmart have just gone into partnership with ASDA in the UK maybe you will do a follow up video showing the spread throughout Europe?
bigstiggerNo1 3 years ago
Oh my GOD, its a wal-mart plague that will swallow us all
HeeroGundam12 3 years ago 2
lol the state were i live in on the map u showed it got coverd by blue dots lol!
Pmdbrt 3 years ago
this is a market driven economy that we live in...wal-mart is only doing what most businesses do when they reach the size that they are at
52Mike52 3 years ago 2
This is true. From an economic point of view they are just doing what all businesses try to do- maximize shareholder wealth.
However, there may be long term side effects since much of the goods sold comes from China, adding to the trade US trade imbalance. Also, there is the side effect of suburban style big box stores replacing traditional urban store fronts, contributing to urban sprawl.
Nothing can stop them except for the falling value of the US Dollar.
addisontexas 3 years ago 5
fuck walmart they are greedy bastards!
sierra0318 3 years ago 4
Looks like Nevada and Maine have their stuff together.
WNanette 3 years ago 2
GO GET A JOB, AT TARGET!
hindview 3 years ago
now thats capitalism baby yeah lol
ryanrobinhood 3 years ago
everything walmart sells is made in china. boycott chinese goods! help stop the NAFTA superhighway and NAU
FarangBalls 3 years ago 2
Not everything Balls.
balzysalzy 3 years ago
not to mention the fact that in this country... this GREEEAAAT!!!! government/alongside of the IRS, lies to us in a reform inclusion that we have to pay for federal income tax out of our wages that we bust our asses for... They are stealing your money from your paycheck, every week, evey two weeks, out of your commissions...that you work hard for.... they tax our asses enough on the gas, and supplies to barely survive out here!! We have to pay for water that they reuse and chemically treat!!
HeartAngel42 3 years ago
I'm going to college.....if people don't like WAl-Mart....don't shop their......many people support WAlmart by buying its merchandise.....
I am going to college....Capitalims rocks....
Power corrupts....absolute power corrupts absolutely.....but it rocks absolutely to.....
it wouldn't hurt for Wal-Mart to have a bit more competition.....but Wal-Mart will eventually have to have its end.....the mastermnds behind it won't live forever....
I love going to Walmart...
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Landaux 3 years ago
whats walmart
aiden92695 3 years ago
Sigh, another billion dollar corporation ripping off everyone. From its workers that it cheats by unpaid overtime, and jimmying hours of their records. Or paying selling a toy for 14.98 which cost 18 cents to build..
Such a bad ploy on the economy..
matticth 3 years ago 4
why is she working at kmart in the first place if she's 28? No college? Personal choice is a b**ch!
goalieman4567 3 years ago
that was for jmann.
goalieman4567 3 years ago
@goalieman--
Not everyone has the choice to go to college. Just because you could make that choice doesn't mean everyone has it that easy.
And there should be decent options for people who don't want to go to college. No one deserves to make $6 an hour just because they didn't go to school.
cryspatus 3 years ago
Is it just me, or are all eight Wal-Marts in North Dakota along the two major east-west highways of that state?
DJFrankie2468 4 years ago
a degree wouldn't be bad.
DanialWali 4 years ago
now walmarts slowly taking over the world...they're building on in germany....hahahahaha...hahahaha...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. starbucks and walmart are going to rule the world in the year 2034
KindRyu 4 years ago
That is if the world doesn't end first in 2012 ;)
jrhanson24 3 years ago
I don't blame it on Wal-Mart blame it on everyone having sex and thinking more kids are the answer. Wal-mart is only part of the problem. It's overpopulation stupids!
If it wasn't Wal-Mart it might just be another dollar store to take it's place with stuff made in China to fill the demand.
thatgracefulledge 4 years ago
w0w
skatedavid3 4 years ago
woah........ O.O
crazy4candy2194 4 years ago
To be honest with you, Until WalMart Came to Canada, Prices were very high, I used to pay 13 bucks for my chev 20 van oil filter at Canadian Tire, that same year wall mart came to town Fram Filter 4.99, Its not all bad if your not ritch,
cycimian 4 years ago
wow its like watching bacteria multiply
andyk369 4 years ago 2
Holy canole!
3yahweh3 4 years ago
hmmm i dont see Hawaii on ur map
stangluv 4 years ago
as if there is 56,000 views of this. come on own up how many of you r geeks!
shakeyjake1990 4 years ago
Walmarts in the USA fire people who try to start unions... They encourage thier employees to file for welfare and federal health care... We, the american people, pay over 1 billion dollars in taxes to support Walmart employees for welfare and federal health care
ScareTax 4 years ago
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Wal-Mart is able to provide low prices because it has perfected logistics and "just-in-time delivery." There are no intermediary warehouses, because the stores themselves are the warehouses. And since there are workers present overnight anyway (stocking the shelves), the organization has smartly decided to remain open 24 hours a day. Wal-Mart employs plenty of Americans, provides low-price products for plenty more, and ensures a competitive free market.
MarkSyno 4 years ago
Oh brother!
mrfunnyman99 4 years ago
No compitition you say? Well it kills and has killed many other smaller businesses. It is a monster eating other smaller monsters. Yes, compitition with this one is greatly sized.
pandaokpanda 4 years ago 3
That's capitalism.
bchamness6 4 years ago 2
Go Capitalism!
Starpe 4 years ago 2
yeah, if you took enconomics you would know why this is bad for the average person, great for the top 10%. lower prices always lead to lower wages. I dare you to try and support a family on 8.00 an hour. Thanks retail. thanks for killing my country.
iTeamkill 4 years ago
People save money when they shop at WalMart which they can spend on other things and start businesses of their own.
P.S. Barely anyone who is supporting a family makes $8.00/hour...it's mostly just teenagers.
EntourageMan 4 years ago
EntourageMan- Have you been in a Walmart? There are tons of people working there that are over 20. And even teenagers deserve to make over $7/hr... You can't save for college with that kind of money, you can barely buy a car.
cryspatus 3 years ago 4
where is it written anywhere that says walmart has to pay anyone over minimum wage? minimum wage is set by the government not walmart. and most company's if your work performance is minimum you get payed minimum. i hear a lotta deadbeats complaining about there pay, when they didnt even work for half of it.
jesuslovesmic 3 years ago
this has to be one of the more ignorant things ive heard in a while... in all reality you get what you pay for... pay your workers less, expect less work, less loyalty, less everything... to me it seems to be a bad business practice, you know exploiting workers for their need to pay bills and stuff... but that just me
ryanrobinhood 3 years ago 2
and also, no one said they had to continue working at Walmart. There are other alternatives.
sliver01 3 years ago 4
Actually, that's corporate capitalism. Capitalism was the mom and pop grocery store, the greeting card store and the pharmacy that went out-of-business when the BIG store came to town. But hey - prices are down, and in today's economy folks like you and I need low prices. Too bad low prices leave little main streets full of empty store-fronts.
HarvBand 4 years ago
So why was MarkSyno given thumbs down for his post when his explanation sounds very similar to one in my economics textbook?
DJFrankie2468 4 years ago
Because people just see a big business being successful and just think that only the owners are being helped by it...people are idiots.
EntourageMan 4 years ago
Looks like a graph I seen in school when the Nazi's were taking over Europe.Only difference is No concentration camps but abusive child labor in China.Anyone feel like doing the Walmart cheer?
mrfunnyman99 4 years ago 2
All so Joe Blow can save a few bucks on toilet paper and condoms. Shopping at Wal-Mart is selling your soul.
senorpuma 4 years ago 3
From what I can tell on here, those in favor of Wal-Mart, defend it b/c they shop there, they like saving a buck, etc. And the people who are opposed to it have learned about the company beyond merely shopping there, the things that allow them to have those low prices.
senorpuma 4 years ago 2
Things like pseudo-slave labor in foreign countries, unfair government subsidies at the local and national level ($1 billion in 2005), paying low wages, not providing affordable health care for employees and encouraging them to get Medicaid ($1.5 billion in 2005), not to mention ignoring environmental regulations, safety precautions in their vast parking lots, and destroying Main Streets across the country...
senorpuma 4 years ago
You should see downtown in my city ever since Walmart came in.Looks like a ghost town.
mrfunnyman99 4 years ago
Everyone should watch Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices. It is a very informative DVD that breaks down the many negative impacts that Wal-Mart has globally and locally. It IS about ideology, because it is the ideology of WalMart that allows you to enjoy their low prices at countless other's expense.
senorpuma 4 years ago 2
Walmart does not require any annoying savings cards! thank you Walmart! No rebates needed, no membership... The discount is already there! That is why i shop at Walmart!
IBMeddling 4 years ago
So a company that supports America and actually has plenty of people working who are available to help customers is as bad or worse than a company who supports foreign countries cheaply and dangerous products just to make a buck, oh and they treeat their employees horribly. Wow you need to open your eyes there.
jnichols98 4 years ago
Looks like a virus outbrake. I find it strange that the US government can't see how this is bad for the economy for US citisens. There are hardly any US goods sold in WM. Mostly made in China, Mexico etc. Politicians have a 4 year lifespan...
crosscart666 4 years ago
It's like a cancer.
eneliatarknenah 4 years ago
walmart=ikea
taymacjack 4 years ago
If you love Wal-Mart, research the effects it has to small businesses. dozens of other reasons why wal-mart is evil, but that one is just a start. They also fund slavery in places like haiti and china. Well just go look it up and you will see
Doblosky19 4 years ago
God Bless Walmart? God bless un unionizing, destroying communities, unfair wages, sexist, getting millions from the state and country walmart. WHY?
This is the worst company in the world. There Selfish and complete liars.
FUCK WALMART
jewishandproud9 4 years ago 5