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I need to make a speech on why wal*mart is evil...but i cant seem to make a speech out of my ideas...i would appreciate some input, and/or any other good reasons for the evilness of walmart,
here are some of my ideas

ok....you have this huge spacious store, yet the isles are tiny which causes "cart-rage", and there is just random space where it is not really needed, and even though you have like 20 checkout lines, only 3 are actually in use, and you feel drained when you leave the store, little demon children wander the isles hitting you with their mothers carts...............

2006-12-07 08:36:24 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference Homework Help

sorry, forgot the a on aisles

2006-12-07 08:46:26 · update #1

Ah..this is great.....i love theese ideas

2006-12-07 09:01:31 · update #2

ok, i could also use help on how i should open my speech

2006-12-07 09:04:46 · update #3

12 answers

Walmart: Always low wages, always.

2006-12-07 08:49:23 · answer #1 · answered by Starscape 6 · 0 0

Perhaps you could make your speech like a "real time" experience. What I mean is that you speak in the present tense and describe your entrance into the store, what you encounter within the store and check-out, and your final exit into the concrete expanses of the parking lot. (Have you noticed that the floor of the store right before you exit is bumpy tile, so that the cart rumbles across it? I often wonder if it's so that you can't make a quick escape without the security personnel hearing you go!)

After you exit you drive past streets and streets of boarded up windows/ store fronts where small shops used to exist before beaten out of business by the Titan Wal-mart. Everything becomes generic, nothing is unusual anymore, all is mass-produced by the Chinese, etc. etc.

By the way, this probably doesn't matter if this is a speech rather than an essay but the corridors within Wal-mart should be spelled aisles not isles. They are walkways not landmasses surrounded by water!

FOLLOW-UP:
I think you should open your speech as I suggested, in the first person, in the present tense, and you should be in a GOOD mood, whistling perhaps, at one with the world, as you head towards Wal-mart to get some socks or whatever. By the end you should be in a foul mood, hating the world and all who dwell in it (but in a lighthearted way of course!)

2006-12-07 08:40:46 · answer #2 · answered by JaneB 7 · 1 0

Wal-Mart Workers Speak Out
Dana Razaie
Dana has been a stocker at the Wal-Mart in Fridley, MN for about five years. During this time she has never been written up and has always been a hard worker. Dana is frustrated by low wages, unaffordable company health care, and a hostile, anti-worker environment at her Wal-Mart store.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST OF DANA'S STORY
Ollie & Patricia Wells
Ollie Wells has worked full time at the Wal-Mart distribution center in Brooksville, Florida for over four years. In addition, he has to work a second job in order to provide for his wife and four children, two of whom are autistic and require regular doctor visits and therapy. Because he can’t afford Wal-Mart’s health insurance, the children rely on medical coverage from the state of Florida.

http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/workers/
http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/
Here is some information from past workers.

2006-12-07 08:58:47 · answer #3 · answered by ????? 7 · 0 0

THe biggest thing I find out at walmart is: I always go in for something that will only cost me a few dollars, and I end up finding all this stuff that will "save me money". Running to the store for Toilet paper, ends up with a zillion things. (even if I only go to the toilet paper isle!" And before I know it: I have toilet paper, magazines, a new robe, bunny slippers, and a new plunger, Just to use the bathroom!

2006-12-07 08:46:00 · answer #4 · answered by sheristeele 4 · 0 1

Walmart allows you to bring in advertisements from other stores to compare prices, and then get that product for what the other store is offering. Therefore, they're taking business away from other stores.

2006-12-07 08:46:45 · answer #5 · answered by Heather <33 4 · 0 0

those are all cool!
another might be, you go in there intending to spend only ten minutes getting a basket full of groceries. But you come out two hours later with $278.95 worth of useless junk! This has happened to me before.
Also, there was this thing I wanted that was like 40 bucks and when I finally got enough money for it, they didn't have anymore!

2006-12-07 08:46:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Hmm, I didn't know wal-mart was evil in any way. Evil? If they don't like the wages why don't they go work somewhere else? If you don't like the customer service, why don't you shop somewhere else. Wow, we've become quite a society, haven't we?

2006-12-07 09:19:59 · answer #7 · answered by The Scorpion 6 · 0 0

Hmm they are all nice employees but you know when the door greeter gets done telling you Welcome to Walmart in his mind he wishes he could run you down with a cart. A door greeter is evil but wait tell the 20 items or less woman cashier is done for the day and she has got 20 customers in line and no one else in the 20 items or less registers, she looks at each customer as If they where volchers. In her mind shes saying hurry up already before I grab all your items out of your cart and push you into a regular register where you will have to wait in line and no not I will be checking you out. She closes her register at 10 and Now There are some complaining customers I waited in line 30 mintues to get checked out and this lowsy woman can't even push it to 10 more. Last time I was at Walmart I waited 30 min for some old woman to get me checked out there was a big lady in front of me , she had alot of groceries, I had to use the loser line I tell you. This old lady tells the manager Hi Ive got to get out of here its past my time to get out of here, she was complaining I thought to myself That Old hag, You dont want to work why dont you quit your job. Old people are slow and incoherent I say she was 70 and waiting to get out of her job because she can't stand people, why work with people If you dont like them? Anyways she keeps complaining Im thinking to myself I should of changed registers 10 minutes before. She says hi to me and smiles and I say hi back thats when she really wants to get out of there. Take it from me If you have to go use one of those self checkouts save you the time.

2006-12-07 08:51:18 · answer #8 · answered by girl176a1 3 · 0 0

WALMART MAKES OVER 9 BILLION IN SALES ANNUALLY, YET THEIR EMPLOYEES GET PAID SCRAPS. EMPLOYEE WAGES ARE SO MEDIOCRE THAT MOST OF THEM ACTUALLY QUALIFY FOR FOOD STAMPS.

2006-12-07 08:40:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

dont't forget about the creepy toothlees greeters, and the employees who cant help you with anything because they can't speak english

2006-12-07 08:58:09 · answer #10 · answered by w/e 2 · 0 0

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