That is one good thing about living in America, we can pick and choose where we work. We don't have to be treated like crap if we don't want to.

You try selling anything for the price it costs to get an American to make it. The American can't afford to work for less because he has to make payments on his house, both cars, the boat, the kid's college education, oh and one of them will need a car next year. It goes on and on. I'm not sure what will fix the situation, but singling out Wal-Mart for a systemic problem may be popular, but won't help.

Where do you get your info? In Kansas the average Wal-mart associate starts at about $7 an hour. 40 hour week, so that's about $280 a week before taxes. 52 weeks a year, so that's 14560. That's starting. Before taxes, granted, but there's also associates that have been there 10 plus years making 16 to 20 plus an hour. If you want more money make planes or cars. There's not enough margin in retail.

On health insurance, I work for Wal-Mart (as if you haven't guessed yet) and I have a Health savings account through the company that I pay 8 dollars a paycheck to have maintained, I put an additional $40 that the company matches. It goes into an account that earns interest that I can use to pay medical expenses. Once I've paid the deductible with that, the plan pays up to 80% of the other expenses. It's worked pretty good for me. I don't have kids though, so that might change the math a bit.

You do realize that some of those lawsuits are decades old now? Doesn't mean that they didn't happen, but it could mean that there are policies in place to make sure that it doesn't happen any more often than it does in the local grocery store, or Denny's, or Burger King?


I get a little bitter when everyone is happy to bash the place I work because it makes a good target. How many of you have studied sociology or economics? What do you think of it?

good thing too, I eat a lot of those, you can actually get pretty creative with them, add stuff to em and all.

There is no way I believe someone working at walmart that isn't a manager or anything is making that much money..
The median pay for a walmart employee being there 10-19 years is $14

http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Employer=Walmart.com/Hourly_Rate

Your Walmart is way different from the ones by me.

We don't have dirt, masses of people, and workers that can't speak English.

Also, Target's prices are much higher then Walmart here.

Btw, I'm leaving now to buy my child a bicycle for Christmas.
I'm going to Walmart.

not to mention the food is 1-2 dollars more in price. im sorry but i cant afford to spend 4 dollars on something i can spend 2 dollars on at walmart

Ramen noodles aren't healthy.

american made products are more cause of labor cost. you can thank the union for that...it has finally come back and bit us in the ass.the automakers are now feeling it cause an employee makes $68.00 an hour to put on 5 lug nuts....and we b!tch about government officials that get paid to do nothing.

I don't care what anybody says......I worked for Walmart for 12 years. Did every conceivable job there was to do at Walmart, including Asst. Manager. I would probably still be there if it wasn't for the fact I had an a$$hole for a store manager...so I chose to leave the store and the company. I still shop there on a very regular basis. Would rather shop there then Kmart or Target any day

Cut-n-paste:

Abandons Buy American Program. In February 1985, Walton wrote 3,000 American manufacturers and wholesalers to announce that the chain wanted to buy more American goods. Walton said: “We cannot continue to be a solvent nation as long as we pursue this current accelerating direction. Our company is firmly committed to the philosophy by buying everything possible from suppliers who manufacture their products in the United States.” Today, however, over 80 percent of Wal-Mart’s 6,000 global suppliers are based in China. [Wal-Mart Press Release, 3/13/85; Wal-Mart Literature, 1994; PBS Frontline, 11/16/04]

Yep, I remember those days.

Mr. Walton started something great, and his family destroyed his values.

Mr. Walton started something great in my city. He paid most of it too.

Our city schools lost their accreditation.

Walton made a financial scholarship program for the low income city children. It's pays $1,500 a year per child to attend a school of their choice. It covers kindergarten through 8th grade.

I think it was offered to 100 children in a lottery. Thousands applied for it.

This also helped the private schools that were losing attendance. The kids are getting a better education.

Sadly it seems a perpetual cycle ...

Many people work in minimum wage jobs ... sometimes 2 or 3 of them to make ends meet ...

they need ways to cut the cost of living ... the only way to do that is to buy less expensive products and fewer of them ... less expensive products are produced overseas ...

...and whether or not 'Walmart' is the devil incarnate ... how would you be able to deal with that many more unemployed citizens if they shut their doors tomorrow ...


Something has gone terribly array in the 'American Dream'...


Where is the 'good of the people' in all this?

Don't shop Wal-Mart.

You can buy lotsa cheap $hit from China or a few quality things from elsewhere. You can do without so much stuff too...really you can.

Personal responsibility...Wal-Mart isn't killing us we are.

I worked for the Wal-mart warehouse as a custodian and made 12 dollars an hour and that was within 3 years and 10 yrs ago.My daughter made 9.50 as a cashier in a store just last year..Wal-mart bases it's pay on the local average.also when I worked for Wal-mart I had an HMO health plan,stock,2 weeks paid vacation,personal days and sick days.plus life insurance,long and short term disability and dental.When something is a success people want to tear it down.If I hadn't gotten pregnant,I would still be there today.

That's probably not a bad idea.

its about the only idea that is left.

This is the most true statement of all. Most of what we buy is junk and totally unnecessary.

I remember When John Gotti gave a huge amount of money to help build a childrens hospitol in N.Y.
Everyone loved him for it.
did that make him a good person?