Slavetrainer2007
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Ok i admit i havent read the 5 plus pages of post on walmart bashing. Walmart is a vital part of the american economy like it or not. Its the largest chain department store in the world.
To OP:
I have worked at walmart ( granted it was over a decade ago). Even then while they paid minimium wage their benefits for even their part time workers was better than any other store i have seen.
I shop at walmart because im not an idiot. im not going to a mom and pop store and buy something i can get at walmart for 75% of that or less. I work hard for my money so why donate it to mom and pop?
Some things about Walmart that people dont realize:
1) If you took away all the walmarts right now the unemployment rate would rise by a signicant %. Walmart , while supplying low end jobs does supply alot of jobs, which is important in small town america where i live. We dont even have a super walmart( ours is the old style before "super") and it employees more people than both grocery stores put togather plus has benefit packages.
2) Walmart is not typically the primary household income. It is an addition to the primary household income to most families.
3) Here is an example of a mom and pop store compared to walmart in prices. I have to drive 30 miles to a superwalmart that sells groceries. I wanted to see if it was worth the time and gas to drive 30 miles to do my shopping their. I made a shopping list. I bought only the stuff on the shopping list. It costed me $147.xx . I took the same shopping list to my favorite local store ( which is part of a chain but individually owned) and bought only what was on the shopping list. I spent $218.xx. I saved $75 by driving 30 miles to buy the same thing i do locally. So why shop at mom and pop? so mom and pop can get rich and i go broke?
4) The unions hate walmart because walmart is not union. Unions are a joke, period. "give me money and ill let you work"....Thanks. As someone said the only reason Unions are on walmart is because they want the money. Unions arent like how they use to, they dont protect workers they protect the hand that fills their pocket. Ive had such dealings with unions. Ive seen people wronged by a business( go directly against the union rules) and the union did nothing about it. Why? because the business handed them money to turn their heads.
5) This whole getting goods made in china etc and bad treatment of workers their. I hate to break the news to you but their is bad treatment of workers everywhere. its called the difference between being rich and poor. As for everything made in china or india or korea. are you going to assemble walmart goods for 30 cents a day? I doubt it. The fact is if they paid americans to do it they would have to pay american wages. Which means they would have to raise the prices because they now have more overhead and they have to make a profit. So the $7 an hour your making to make walmart goods is now passed to the customer which is you by the way and now your $7 is even more worthless because what use to cost $7 now cost $11. Its called economics. Making goods in poor countries is acutally better for americans because it keeps inflation down. America like all first world countries has evolved. We are the market not the poor country that makes the goods for the market.
4) Anytime you have a parking lot with 100 plus cars in it their is going to be crime on occassion. Almost ever walmart i have seen has security cameras outside. What more do you want them to do have their own police station ( and actually in high crime neighborhoods they have a police substation) and guard towers?
5) sexism and racism take place everywhere. not just at walmart. in almost ever company. even in BDSM. i had a sub ask me how i felt about jews. i was confused how am i suppose to feel? A jew is a jew, a muslim is a muslim. She told me she was jewish, which dont bother me in the least. but apparently it bothers some people. It makes me think, why do people care so much about labeling other people and stereotyping them? black is black and not all black people are the same you have your trashy hoodlems but their are alot of classy and respectable black people too. Muslims ,not all muslims want to kill each other and people from the west. The sad part is that we are so quick to label people and so quick to sterotype them. Just like we ourselves are sterotyped. You are sterotyped. Come to my community dressed in leather and pvc. They are going to think your cultist that violates womens rights and tortures others for your pleasure.. to them you are a satanist( sp?) and pure evil. but how many of you are? probably near 0. So while a little off topic, remember next time you stereotype someone and define their race, religion or anything else as bad. remember your on the same side of the fence, because you are judged the same way. And if you dont like to be judged by a stereotype associated with your label, maybe you will think not to define someone else that way. And i see it here in the forums. I see the cones get defined as newbie. Yes they may be new to THIS site but they could of been practicing BDSM before you were even thought about.
6) as i said i have a walmart store here. But the city board with much debate just passed a resolution to allow walmart to build a supercenter here. its going to hurt the mom and pop stores here. but how many people benefit from mom and pop stores? mom and pop. you dont. you neighbor dont. your community dont... just mom and pop. So you are sacrificing the good of the community for the sake of padding mom and pops store owners which make up less than 1/100th of the community. Building a supercenter here means a few things. One bigger store more jobs. 24 hour store more round the clock jobs. Which is great for a family with kids. 1 parent can work nights the other days. Theirs not many places here you can work nights and for some families 1 person needs to work evenings /nights( highschool kids have evenings sewed up at most places) our current walmart employees 25-30 people at least. superwalmart will almost double that number( depending on what else they put in it). lower prices means instead of spending that extra $75 on groceries they can spend it on school clothes or school supplies or other things they need that arent as important as food. What a 4 person family spends on food a month, the difference between the mom and pop and walmart can pay an electric bill or 1/2 the house payment or rent. and that is vital to low income small town families. While city people may make $13-$14 an hour working at a gas station , where i live, my trade( carpentry), barely pays that ( non union) and thats for a professional. Walmart is a vital part of the american economy. And whether you like it or not, things would be worse if it didnt exist.
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