Wal-Mart

[57Brave]

Evil?

Good for communities ?

Do you see cheap prices and ignore the rest?

Why do they treat their employees like crap?

[zitothebrave]

Walmart like pretty much all big corporations is evil. Anyone who thinks they're good is wrong.

[weso1]

I don't think they're evil or good. They just are what they are. While they hurt some they help others with their cheap prices.

It's just a bottom rung job and thus the benefits and pay should be that of a bottom rung job.

If you think Walmart is evil then you should also think those who work there are evil. They are the demons that help keep the business afloat.

[BlackwaterPark]

Walmart and people that shop there are evil. I have not stepped foot in one, nor has my family in over 8 years

[Tapate50]

I am sure they do their fair share of good, and fair share of bad. Just like most people out there...

Don't really have a feeling towards them one way or another. In college, they had a very liberal return policy I know that!

But yeah, don't have a feeling on WM.

[sturg33]

I suppose they are evil for offering cheap prices for poor people

[zitothebrave]

I suppose they are evil for offering cheap prices for poor people

That lack of grasp on global economics is why america is losing ground to China at a rapid rate. Poor people don't need ****ty flat screen TVs.

[sturg33]

That lack of grasp on global economics is why america is losing ground to China at a rapid rate. Poor people don't need ****ty flat screen TVs.

Hmmmm... you know that WM is the biggestg grocery store in the world, yes?

[Tapate50]

I do not go there for electronics, but I'm sure some people do.

[thethe]

The thing I usually forget about Walmart is that they employ more people than just those in their department stores. So there are good jobs working for Walmart. But, I do err on the side of thinking they are bad overall for this country. Its just more consolidation of wealth that in the end is bad for the country IMO.

[50PoundHead]

Mark Thanksgiving Eve as a day on which I agreed wholeheartedly with weso1 and tapate50, with whom I hope I'm on congenial terms although we often disagree.

Corporations do what corporations do. They act in their self-interest as we all do, but I've been impressed by a lot of the stuff Wal-Mart is doing in communities through its foundation. Sure, a lot of that is window dressing, but they could be swallowing all that money and have chosen to do some interesting and good things with it.

I probably don't agree with a lot of their corporate uber-politics, but they get to participate in the free market. I don't shop there much (only when it's the closest store when I'm on a road trip), but that's my choice.

[yeezus]

Was watching Maher talk about walmart. I'm not sure how anyone can defend this place.
He said one of the stores was having a food drive........for their OWN EMPLOYEES.
You sell food, and the people you employ cannot afford food? 4 of the 10 richest people in the US are heirs to the walmart throne. They pay minimum wage, and avoid paying a huge amount of employees health care by carefully working out hours.
Look at costco, then look at walmart.

[sturg33]

Was watching Maher talk about walmart. I'm not sure how anyone can defend this place.
He said one of the stores was having a food drive........for their OWN EMPLOYEES.
You sell food, and the people you employ cannot afford food? 4 of the 10 richest people in the US are heirs to the walmart throne. They pay minimum wage, and avoid paying a huge amount of employees health care by carefully working out hours.
Look at costco, then look at walmart.

OK… I'll look at Costco…

Now I'm looking at Walmart.

Walmart is wildly more successful.

[Tapate50]

Was watching Maher talk about walmart. I'm not sure how anyone can defend this place.
He said one of the stores was having a food drive........for their OWN EMPLOYEES.
You sell food, and the people you employ cannot afford food? 4 of the 10 richest people in the US are heirs to the walmart throne. They pay minimum wage, and avoid paying a huge amount of employees health care by carefully working out hours.
Look at costco, then look at walmart.

Could have stopped at Maher.

[CK86]

I'd be happy to support Costco but they're nowhere near my area so until then I'll shop at Walmart. Cheaper prices means I'm there, fully admit it.

[CrimsonCowboy]

Cannot not stand them. Worst customer service I have ever seen. Haven't spent a dime there in over six years and don't plan on doing so any time soon. I go into Target a lot. Don't have a Costco in Mobile, though rumors a couple months ago said one was coming in the near future.

[goldfly]

I suppose they are evil for offering cheap prices for poor people

wal mart is awful for this country and the people

they are a terrible business and i haven't given them a penny in over a decade and i plan to live a while and never give them a penny again

[goldfly]

OK… I'll look at Costco…

Now I'm looking at Walmart.

Walmart is wildly more successful.

amazing

[acesfull86]

I don't think they're evil or good. They just are what they are. While they hurt some they help others with their cheap prices.

It's just a bottom rung job and thus the benefits and pay should be that of a bottom rung job.

This.

When I drive by WalMart, there are two steady lanes of traffic coming from two different directions feeding into an already packed parking lot. Doesn't matter what day or what time. I think it's absurd to call something unequivocally evil when they have as many regular customers as Wal Mart does. These people are shopping there of their own free will for their own benefit, not for the benefit of the Walton family. Hitler? Evil. Bin Laden? Evil. Wal Mart? It's a ******* department store, people.

[goldfly]

walmart has done more harm to this country than Bin Laden