Not to these employees anyway.

Walmart COO surprises Dallas store employees with promotions.

DALLAS -- Walmart is promoting from within. 160,000 employees nationwide will get a raise in a year’s time.
October 29, 2013
Tuesday, the chain store made the announcement by surprising four Dallas employees with promotions.

“It was very surprising, because I wasn’t expecting it -- I was about to cry,” said Demetrius Scott, a seven-year store veteran.

The company used Tuesday’s event as an opportunity to show that despite what critics say, many employees have long careers with their company.

Gisel Ruiz, the chief operating officer for Walmart U.S., flew into Dallas to personally announce the promotions at the east Dallas location.

“Everyone has their share of critics. At Walmart, that is not our focus," Ruiz said. "Our focus is about serving customers and providing everyday low prices."

According to Walmart, 25,000 employees will receive promotions by the end of the year.

http://www.wfaa.com/news/business/Walmart-COO-surprises-Dallas-store-employees-with-promotions-229777061.html

Wal-Mart gets most of their employees salary back anyway (directly or indirectly)...at our local Walmart, employees buy their groceries there, buy their medicines there, buy their eyeglasses there, have their cars fixed there, and eat out at McDonalds there...

The company store harkens back to the old coal mining days.

There was a song about it that became very popular as a quaint reflection on the social injustice of the "old days" during the increasingly prosperous fifties. I think it put the almost forgotten, but once famous Tennesee Ernie Ford on the map. Here he is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfu2A0ezq0

How fitting that the company store should once again rear its ugly head as we bury ourselves past our noses in the Catch 22 of losing more money the harder we work, desperately trying to get out from under.

As George Carlin said, "The game is rigged folks."

That is due in part to the fact that Walmart employees get an employee discount for certain items. Plus, why would you go elsewhere to shop when you can shop at your own place after you get off work?

I have gone to some crazy places in my travels and have run out of things. I know Walmart has saved me in a serious pinch by being able to get things when most everything else is closed. I am not fond of some of their policies, but I don't think it is that bad. JMO!!!

Wal-Mart is only the perfect indication of the trend of corporate monopolization and decline in freedom of choice that cuts your own throat the more you deal with it.

Most of the products are made more cheaply in other countries like China, and buying more Chinese products means buying less of your own domestically-produced ones, so the twofold "blowback" you suffer is a skewed balance of payments resulting in a trade deficit that sends your country's money to China, thus impoverishing your own country and shutting down the domestic businesses that can no longer compete price-wise with the cheap Chinese crap. This results in a whole bunch of your countrymen getting laid off & unemployed.

So when you think about it, is the short-sighted policy of saving a few bucks really worth all the poverty & grief it causes to your neighbours, your country, and eventually to you?

Apparently so.

Wal-Mart is the greatest success story involving the American Dream, from essentially nothing to the worlds largest retailer. Although their practices may be crappy to those who wholesale to them, Wal-Mart does not hold a gun to their heads and force them to do business with them. It is by these practices that so many people can save money, it is also this ideology that made Wal-Mart what it is that allows Wal-Mart and others to open at 9 o' clock on Thanksgiving for Christmas sales.

and that is what sticks in the Craw of the "liberal" Statists!

You know... I knew that there would be at least one liberal that would snap at the bait. They just can't help exposing themselves for what they are. God help you ignorant ones, for you will never see the truth.

Never see the truth?...That coming from on of the willfully blind is most amusing. What's wrong with being liberal?...I'm not technically liberal, I'm an altuistic voluntarist egalitarian commie anarchist and proud of it!

An altuistic voluntarist egalitarian commie anarchist.
Short for ignorant one.

An unwarranted, irrelevent, and uncreative ad hominem - strike two

I'll try to use monosyllabic words in future to accommodate the anencephalic hecklers.

When you own the media you can sell the world as a good buy, on prices you set, and service, products or trends you dictate, and only the largest can afford....and people will still buy.

Just look at elections

Seven corporations, all on the stock exchange, own 90% of the media. They support one side of the 2 party lie or the other.

With corrupt corporate lobbyists influencing/bribing members of congress for regulations of their industries.....basically writing those regulations, small business and the people are offered up as sacrificial lambs in their greed.

But being the only game in town does not make you the best deal for the money, simply the only one with the ability to remain in operation by offering the lies of slightly lower prices by volume sales.... inflation and taxation does the rest.

Walmart plays in that game, but if you've ever read the story of Sam Walton, Walmart has morphed into something other than his dream under those actions.

Of course they shop there. They get a decent discount on WalMarts already low prices.

"What is a foreigner doing writing about Walmart? You don't even have Walmart!"

True, well sort of - but no.

Let me explain:

I have made quite a few trips to the U.S.A. and invariably create a stir at U.S.A. baggage search (or whatever it is officially named), first because I may be only visiting for say three days, I'm not there on business, claim to be competing as an international sportsman, am over sixty years of age, and my suitcase is three quarters full of food products! What's he baked into them?

What's HIS problem?

ANSWER: Walmart.

Wherever I find myself in the U.S.A. I end up sourcing food / drinks from Walmart (there being little else available) and it's open in the middle of the night, after competing and rest.

Heavens preserve! How do any Americans remain slim and healthy?!

Yes, I confess to being a vegan and difficult in that respect but even normally animal free foods are not so in the U.S.A., and invariably packed with completely unnecessary calories.

I could make a list pages long but cite but two examples - bread and baked beans. Nearly all loaded with milk! Yes, I do know that Walmart occasionally stock milk free unleavened bread. Sometimes. What's milk doing in with baked beans?

Soya based products are virtually zero, and any philosophy of creating a slim fit health U.S.A. non existant.

I love the U.S.A. (bar Vegas) but eating there it's either (1) Get a house there and find suppliers which tourists invariably never find, (2) Get fat, or (like me) (3) Always be hungry and lose a pile of weight.

Walmart, you need to brighten up your ideas and possibly hire a nutrition counsellor.