How do you feel about Wal-Mart?

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Registered: 07-04-2008
How do you feel about Wal-Mart?
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Wed, 11-26-2008 - 6:23pm

I read this op/ed (it's tied in with the automotive industry issues) http://www.indystar.com/article/20081119/OPINION12/811190304/1301/ARCHIVE the other day and it got me thinking. I've always heard about the lousy way they treat their employees but...it's their prices that keep me going back. Since I've moved to the South it's been even worse. They have Super Wal-Marts here where there is a grocery store in the Wal-Mart.

Now, there was an article the other day in my local newspaper with the mayor asking people to do their Christmas shopping downtown and buy local to support our mom & pop stores. Now, I'd love to do that but I have three kids and you know where I'm going.

Part of me really doesn't like what Wal-Mart stands for but the other part of me feels like "why should I pay more when I know I can get it cheaper there?"

Any thoughts?

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
Sun, 12-07-2008 - 6:02pm

<I'll ask again. If $60/hr for unskilled work at an autoplant is simply a decent wage then why not set than as the min. wage>


Who said $60/hour for unskilled work at an autoplant is simply a decent wage?

Sopal

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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-20-2008
Sun, 12-07-2008 - 6:03pm

Really? where was that said?"Walmart could raise their prices a few cents and pay the employees wages so they may be able to afford health care..... I knew I could get someone to understand my way of thinking"

I believe i asked you to contact your congressman about MINIMUM WAGE, not walmart wage!

great play on words, typical!

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-20-2008
Sun, 12-07-2008 - 6:21pm
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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-20-2008
Sun, 12-07-2008 - 6:27pm
thanks for your concerns.
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-20-2008
Sun, 12-07-2008 - 6:37pm
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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
Sun, 12-07-2008 - 7:04pm
Hey...it was your assertion, I was just asking where/how you came up with that, plus Politics Today doesn't have a CL anymore, so maybe you were thinking of another board.

Sopal


Sopal

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iVillage Member
Registered: 11-19-2008
Sun, 12-07-2008 - 7:05pm
Yeah...52% of them...and not with any kind of demonstration of his skills or experience. I guess Zogby was right.
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-09-2008
Sun, 12-07-2008 - 8:49pm

You can "guess", you'd be wrong, but you can "guess".

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-20-2008
Sun, 12-07-2008 - 8:50pm

"I have conservative family members who don't even recognize the party anymore since the take over of the neoconservatives"

If there were a time machine available, I am afraid the conservatives before Nixon would not recognize the party of Nixon and his progeny. The big spending, interventionist, anti-civil liberty Republican Party of today is not even conservative by traditional standards, it's just plain weird, incompetent and corrupt. In a word, or three, it's totally screwed up. For their own sake and ours, I hope they can bring themselves back to respectability.

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-19-2008
Sun, 12-07-2008 - 8:55pm
And yet the Zogby poll is backed up with facts, experience and credibility...all you've got is "wishful thinking." ; )

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