Wal-mart facts

[03trubluGT]

A good portion of Walmart employees are eligible for various entitlement programs as a result of low salaries, part time employment, and lack of employee benefits. A piece of your check goes to these folks.

I seldom do not side with corporations/businesses, but the ethics of Walmart piss me off. It is wage slavery, like sharecropping in the Old South or in the textile mills of the progressive era.

I would rather a "piece of my check" go to someone who gets off their ass and works (as a subsidy) than a "piece of my check" go to some POS that sits around and pops out kids so she doesn't have to work at all. And then that POS has a baby daddy that lives with her and steals/sells dope and drives an Escalade with 26" rims.

[TxFordGirl]

Do you go to walmart? Lol

ONLY if I have to.

[Binky]

As far as the China imports - they leave out a fourth item.

The stuff may be manufactured over there, but its created, developed/engineered and marketed here in the States. Majority of the actual money stays here in the US.

Sucks for those in manufacturing, but outsourcing the manufacturing side is just an economic reality. The cheaper it costs to build, the more profit and more successful you can become.

(One of my clients has Walmart as a major vendor for their product - and export all their mfg to China. They are only a 60 person firm, but they do all of the creative/accounting/adminsitration work and are well paid across the board - expanding/growing like crazy too)

[Moose242]

Please explain.

A good portion of Walmart employees are eligible for various entitlement programs as a result of low salaries, part time employment, and lack of employee benefits. A piece of your check goes to these folks.

I seldom do not side with corporations/businesses, but the ethics of Walmart piss me off. It is wage slavery, like sharecropping in the Old South or in the textile mills of the progressive era.

[Chili]

That's funny. I never see white people at the one on 183.

And the one on 635 has all the same issues as the other one, no matter the time of day. It's just a different race that is the offending party.

I will not go to the one on 183 anymore.. The one on 635 wasn't too bad the last time I went, though it has been a couple of years.

[GhostTX]

I avoid Wal-Mart during the day at all costs.

I actually enjoy going in there after midnight to people watch the tweakers. It gets really funny when one of them spots you doing it.

This.

9-10pm shopping = in and out. No crowds. And I find the stockers at night are friendlier and actually know where crap is.

[03trubluGT]

My problem with Walmart is the number of employees not eligible for benefits that the US taxpayer has to pick up the tab for.

Please explain.

[bcoop]

I live in Valley Ranch and the Wal Mart @ 635&MacArthur isn't usually too bad. However if you go to the one in South Irving you fucked up, that is the most white trash I've seen in one place since a nascar race. It is also the best place to play Wal-mart bingo!

That's funny. I never see white people at the one on 183.

And the one on 635 has all the same issues as the other one, no matter the time of day. It's just a different race that is the offending party.

[Wicked98Snake]

I live in Valley Ranch and the Wal Mart @ 635&MacArthur isn't usually too bad. However if you go to the one in South Irving you fucked up, that is the most white trash I've seen in one place since a nascar race. It is also the best place to play Wal-mart bingo!

[HarrisonTX]

I avoid walmart at all costs. I do all my shopping at HEB.

This. Dollar wise, I'm sure HEB is nearly on the same level as wal-mart.

I've been inside wal-mart 3 times in the last 6 months. And once was to get a free battery.

[Strychnine]

It gets hilarious when that someone shows up to the counter with Coleman fuel, acetone, hydrogen peroxide, and 8 years worth of matches only to notice that I am standing right in front of them eyeballing his cart.

I was in the grocery store yesterday after work grabbing a some beer for after our MTB ride and the guy in front of me in line had 3 items on the cart.

1 loaf of bread
2 liter cream soda
1 can of dog food

And he paid in quarters.



In my mind I pictured him sitting indian style on the floor, eating a dog food sandwich and washing it down with cream soda and damn near died laughing right there behind him.

[Snatch Napkin]

I avoid Wal-Mart during the day at all costs.

I actually enjoy going in there after midnight to people watch the tweakers. It gets really funny when one of them spots you doing it.


It gets hilarious when that someone shows up to the counter with Coleman fuel, acetone, hydrogen peroxide, and 8 years worth of matches only to notice that I am standing right in front of them eyeballing his cart.

This opens the chance to tell him he forgot his ephedrine and lye as I watch the color run from his face.

[GrayStangGT]

I avoid walmart at all costs. I do all my shopping at HEB.

HEB is by far the best grocery store, the only thing I go to wal mart for is bullets and if I need something in the middle of the night. Never groceries

[td4087]

Engine oil and Motorcraft oil fiters are cheaper there than anywhere esle, as well as WD40, brake cleaner, antifreeze, hand cleaner,ect. That's all I give a fuck about. So I will continue to shop there.

[Machx2]

Me too.

Wal Mart has the nastiest people .

Do you go to walmart? Lol