Interesting article on Wal-Mart
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Wal Mart = cess pool of America.
Hate that store and hope they all burn to the fking ground.
Augusta won't be allowed to shop there.
Hate that store and hope they all burn to the fking ground.
Augusta won't be allowed to shop there.
Jack I have to give you credit. You are alot smarter man than most give you credit for. Its taken me years to finally come up with what you must have been thinking when you opened up this site. And who you figured would be your clientele
Bravo my intelligent friend. Bravo, love the teeth
Bravo my intelligent friend. Bravo, love the teeth
actually, my customers are the sportsbooks but i didn't open the site to make money, that came later. i opened the site/forum so i could get a group together to talk about sports betting. after a year or two there was a shitload of traffic and the sportsbooks came to me. i was lucky, not smart.
and since you keep brining it up about the teeth. christ!
i neglected my teeth forever. i needed 2 root canals and 4 crowns. since 3 of those teeth were front teeth it didn't look right so i had the whole top crowned. he said i would never have to worry about them ever again and i better not have to because it cost me $18K.
I'm just wondering why one of the biggest corporations in the world shouldn't pay health benefits? Instead they counsel their employees how to apply for State benefits (Medicaid) and cost working people tax dollars to cover these individuals.
Maybe this is how they became one of the "biggest corporations in the world":shrug: Adding health benefits to all employees would obviously raise the prices that make Wal-Mart so insanely popular.
BTW, I did not say that Wal-Mart should or should not provide health benefits, I simply wrote that those employees who do not approve of their compensation package are free to seek employment elsewhere.
For the record, I do not shop at Wal-mart, or any other super mart, although I know that my wife shops at Target.
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Just think of how much money they have saved by eliminating one "L". Across all of those store signs around the world, it has to be in the hundreds of dollars.
Jack I wish I had teeth like that. You look like james Garner when you smile. Tell me the chicks dont dig you. Ive had 1 root canal and Im months overdue for another. Im just testing my threshold of pain. Plus I think Im addicted to Orajel.
Apply that same theory to auto makers.
See how much your "cheap" jap ride will cost in another 5 years.
Cie: It's capitalism, I get it. The people that do that sort of work don't have any leverage so WalMart gives them the least of everything.
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The last Wal-Mart thread here at MJ had some good stuff in it.
One point I would make is that I can tell many of you folks don't hang out in poor rural areas. A Wal-Mart arriving there suddenly saves locals several hundreds of dollars a year--it's like giving a noticeable cash stimulus check every month to low-income rural folks. Hate Wal-Mart for that.
The excellently engaged Wal-Mart thread on here from previously year was started, with regret it seems, by Jack.
One point I would make is that I can tell many of you folks don't hang out in poor rural areas. A Wal-Mart arriving there suddenly saves locals several hundreds of dollars a year--it's like giving a noticeable cash stimulus check every month to low-income rural folks. Hate Wal-Mart for that.
The excellently engaged Wal-Mart thread on here from previously year was started, with regret it seems, by Jack.
You want to know why America is so screwed up, just read some of the posts in here by guys approving of Wal Mart. So Walmart+ screwy people = USA.
WAKE UP
WAKE UP
Terryray your right. But in doing that the mom and pop stories in those small towns start to disapear. Then when they do the prices at walmart creeps up. And the health care proplem becomes ours that have to pay for insurance. With being taught how to get there insurance from a state plan is nice saving for walmart. Add that to your check out price when you shop there your helping pay for it. As to clean ours here is not bad. However I agree our Target is nicer.
amen,brother........you`re free to shop where you please...don`t shop there...just don`t try and tell me not to shop there...
Prices creep up, but not that much.
when I stayed with my buddy in Yates Center, we hadda drive over half hour to nearest big Walmart in Chanute. Been there several years, but still, folks in Yates, and all the many towns around complained about having to drive to ugly Chanute to save the money. But save money they did! Many of these folks scrimped, but all understood the savings you accumulate from those drives to Chanute. Newly expanded Walmart in Iola means bit shorter drive now.
The new and fancy Walmart (151st st) by my property outside of Kansas City is nicer (with more upscale clientle) than most any Target. And if you visit retail worker discussion forums online, you find they all say that Walmart better place to work than Target.
Those mom and pop stores offer same or less healthcare benefits overall, so it's a wash there.
Most those mom and pops were going away before Walmart got big. In Yates, just a few left. I would visit the barber, custom meat counter at gro, and restaurants (tho recent Subway helped kill one local eatery).
and Walmart, by offering us stuff cheap so we got more money left for booze and gambling, whack not only mom and pops.
Funny thing is, when I visit freind in New York City, it's like mom and pop all over the place! She's in Brooklyn, near the heights, and goes to bakery, meat store and fruit stand that her grandma went to! The bagel shop for two generations--customers and shop owners.
Academic studies have found Walmart's long term effect on prices up to 10% savings after been one place many years.
this MIT professor seconds these findings, and points out Wal-Mart's cheap food prices, especially, help lower and middle income folks because they pay greater percentage of income on food that wealthier folks.
The economist Jason Furman, who worked for Kerry and now Obama, has long utilized this extensive academic literature and learning to defend WalMart against it's luddite critics. He finds it puzzling that progressives and leftists don't celebrate Wal-Mart's many achievements (but understands why!):
"Wal-Mart's critics also paint the company as a parasite on taxpayers, because 5 percent of its workers are on Medicaid. Actually that's a typical level for large retail firms, and the national average for all firms is 4 percent. Moreover, it's ironic that Wal-Mart's enemies, who are mainly progressives, should even raise this issue. In the 1990s progressives argued loudly for the reform that allowed poor Americans to keep Medicaid benefits even if they had a job. Now that this policy is helping workers at Wal-Mart, progressives shouldn't blame the company. Besides, many progressives favor a national health system. In other words, they attack Wal-Mart for having 5 percent of its workers receive health care courtesy of taxpayers when the policy that they support would increase that share to 100 percent."
Not to mention Walmart's excellent diversity programs
And how much Walmart helps reduce world poverty!
when I stayed with my buddy in Yates Center, we hadda drive over half hour to nearest big Walmart in Chanute. Been there several years, but still, folks in Yates, and all the many towns around complained about having to drive to ugly Chanute to save the money. But save money they did! Many of these folks scrimped, but all understood the savings you accumulate from those drives to Chanute. Newly expanded Walmart in Iola means bit shorter drive now.
The new and fancy Walmart (151st st) by my property outside of Kansas City is nicer (with more upscale clientle) than most any Target. And if you visit retail worker discussion forums online, you find they all say that Walmart better place to work than Target.
Those mom and pop stores offer same or less healthcare benefits overall, so it's a wash there.
Most those mom and pops were going away before Walmart got big. In Yates, just a few left. I would visit the barber, custom meat counter at gro, and restaurants (tho recent Subway helped kill one local eatery).
and Walmart, by offering us stuff cheap so we got more money left for booze and gambling, whack not only mom and pops.
Funny thing is, when I visit freind in New York City, it's like mom and pop all over the place! She's in Brooklyn, near the heights, and goes to bakery, meat store and fruit stand that her grandma went to! The bagel shop for two generations--customers and shop owners.
Academic studies have found Walmart's long term effect on prices up to 10% savings after been one place many years.
this MIT professor seconds these findings, and points out Wal-Mart's cheap food prices, especially, help lower and middle income folks because they pay greater percentage of income on food that wealthier folks.
The economist Jason Furman, who worked for Kerry and now Obama, has long utilized this extensive academic literature and learning to defend WalMart against it's luddite critics. He finds it puzzling that progressives and leftists don't celebrate Wal-Mart's many achievements (but understands why!):
"Wal-Mart's critics also paint the company as a parasite on taxpayers, because 5 percent of its workers are on Medicaid. Actually that's a typical level for large retail firms, and the national average for all firms is 4 percent. Moreover, it's ironic that Wal-Mart's enemies, who are mainly progressives, should even raise this issue. In the 1990s progressives argued loudly for the reform that allowed poor Americans to keep Medicaid benefits even if they had a job. Now that this policy is helping workers at Wal-Mart, progressives shouldn't blame the company. Besides, many progressives favor a national health system. In other words, they attack Wal-Mart for having 5 percent of its workers receive health care courtesy of taxpayers when the policy that they support would increase that share to 100 percent."
Not to mention Walmart's excellent diversity programs
And how much Walmart helps reduce world poverty!
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Oh wow. That is good stuff!
So you don't want a small portion of Wal-Mart employees on state healthcare. You just want everyone on it. And you're complaining about the tax payers footing the bill...
