Walmart. Good for the community or Evil Incarnate?

Question

I live in a fairly rural area just south of Indianapolis, Indiana. My town of about 40,000 is getting its SECOND Supercenter.

This will be 8 Supercenters within an hour's drive of my home, NOT including any in Indianapolis. The current one in my town is only about 5 yrs old, and proponents of the second one say that this current one has already exceeded its design as far as the number of customers go.

I say, hire more cashiers at the first one to run all the empty registers so that customers don't have to worry about their ice cream melting before they even get out of the damn store!

In addition, hire a few more highschoolers to corral the shopping carts in the parking lot!

There's no need to build all these new eyesores, taking up increasingly rare open land. Just put those profits into increasing salaries so that they can retain workers and reduce the infuriating lines.

I feel this would be among the best Public Relations moves they could do.

How do you feel?

Answer 1

Yes, and niether. The most effective vote these days is purchase power. If the cheapest price regardless of the means is what you're looking for, then shop at Walmart and be happy. If involvement in community, and a retailer that buys products from companies that hire your neighbors is important to you, then shop there and encourage your neighbors to do that too. Prices will shift.

Answer 2

Walmart hurts communities and local business. I hope Northern VA does not open a super walmart. What is the matter - there are already plenty of shopping centers around here.

Answer 3

I understand your frustration, it is a royal pain to wait in line to check out. But as the middle class is deteriorating in the U.S., the need for this store has multiplied. They offer cheaper goods, and the population of lower and lower middle class is expanding, so it leaves the majority of the population no where else to shop.

Answer 4

I wished nothern VA would open Super Walmart... I just moved here from Louisiana and it annoys me so much that I can't get all my stuff in one place.... not to mention food costs more in other stores!!!

Answer 5

Walmart's business model is this: It buys goods produced in China or other Third World or slave nations, imports them into the United States, then sells them dirt cheap; cheaper than anyone selling goods made in the United States can do so. This business model has a number of negative effects:

First, it drives US manufacturers out of business. Because Chinese slave labor literally works for free, or near free, there is little or no labor cost involved in the manufacture of goods. Even with the cost of transportation, it is cheaper to manufacture goods in China and import them than it is to produce them in the United States. This dynamic is one of the long term effects we have seen from granting China most favoured nation status during the Clinton administration. The effect of this free trade on white working people is to eliminate US manufacturing jobs and send them overseas.

Second, it drives US retailers out of business. US retailers who sell goods made in US factories cannot lower prices to the level of imported Chinese goods. Because of this, the retailers cannot compete with Walmart, and they go out of business.

Third, all of the workers who used to earn decent wages at US manufacturers and retailers become unemployed, and either are forced on to the welfare system or, often, are forced to work for Walmart. Walmart often brags about the number of jobs it creates. However, the growth of Walmart is causing a net loss of US jobs, and is replacing well paying US retail and manufacturing jobs with jobs at Walmart wages. This means that factory workers earning $20 to $30 are being forced to work for $7 per hour.

Fourth, Walmart does not provide benefits for its workers. Walmart theoretically provides benefits, but does not pay most of its employees enough to take advantage of these benefits. Thus, Walmart has the most employees of any company receiving Section 8, welfare, medicaid or other benefits.

Fifth, Walmart is anti-union and anti-labor. It does not allow its employees to organize, and is deliberately trying to force its workers and communities to live in Third World poverty. Walmart also engages in union- busting activities, including firing union activists, refusing to give raises (4% per year on $7 an hour -- $.28, or total sh!t) to stores where unions are being organized and other violations of worker's rights. It also does not pay overtime.

Walmart epitomizes the interaction between Jewish corruption and white gentile capitalism. It deliberately shifts jobs overseas for the purpose of impoverishing not only American workers, but the communities which it "serves" with low prices. While the long term effect of this is disasterous on the US economy, Walmart is probably the largest reason for the current danger to the US currency posed by China, as well as US strategic dependence on Chinese goods. Walmart's board, which includes foreign nationals, including Mexicans and others profiting from illegal immigration, continues to stand behind it. A good portion of this anti-Americans strategy was invented by a Jew, David Glass, as part of the continuing Jewish war against the white working class, whom the Jews hate.

Answer 6

I hate Wal-Mart, I believe it helps struggling people provide for their family. But i just refuse to go inside.

Answer 7

wal mart is a pretty good store, but nothing compaired to target

Answer 8

evil....they have child laborous