Wal-Mart??

Question

Love it or hate it? Why?

Answer 1

Love the convenience, hate the fact that they drive smaller businesses out of most markets they enter.

Answer 2

Hate it.

You may save a $1 or two when you shop Wal-mart but you also contribute to Wal-mart's draining the local economy by:
1.) They pay their staff of mostly part-time employees (so they don't receive benefits) low wages and then encourage them to off-set that by seeking government assistance.
2.) Crime rates rise around the area when Wal-marts come in. Costs are passed on to the city.
3.) Puts small local businesses that paid their employees higher wages out of business.

Wal-mart will get into areas by promising more jobs and higher tax revenue to cities however after about 2 yrs of business the average is net 2 jobs and little or no increase in tax revenue when it is compared to the increases in city spending for police services.

Answer 3

I have a love/hate relationship with Wal-Mart...
I love the convience of it but I HATE how crowded it can be and I HATE how I get hooked on a product and then all of a sudden they stop stocking it. That has happened to me several times. If I can get by with just going to Target, then I will but when I have to do mass shopping I go to Wal-Mart

Answer 4

Hate it with a passion. Hasn't anyone seen the news about all the *lawsuits* against Wal-Mart just in this past year?

In brief. They treat their workers like crap. One suit is about overnight shift workers being locked in the building *in spite of fire safety codes forbidding it*, another is about a massive and widespread trend to discriminate against women over pay raises and promotions....I could go on all day on the labor issues.

*And* for the most part you cannot get uncensored music at Wal-Mart of any kind in any genre, they just won't carry it. *And* there's the tactic they have of running local shops out of business. *And* their habit of buying mostly Chinese-made goods that have *a trivial item added in the States* just so they can be labeled "Made in the USA".

Trust me when I say this: Wal-Mart has been one of the top three richest corporations in America for decades now, and they don't *deserve* one red cent that they have. They are about as unethical as a business can get *without* being tied to organized crime.

I haven't spent one red cent of my own money there since....roughly February 1983. And frankly, I will likely *DIE* before I spend one more penny at a Wal-Mart. These people are borderline *fascist* in the way they do business and don't deserve *any* of the success they have, never mind any more.

Just say no to Wal-Mart. It might cost you a nickel here or a dime there, but it beats being part of the problem, which is that the Company thinks it has become an undeclared 51st state and has placed itself *above both Law and Ordinary Decency*.

Really. Every penny you spend there supports sweatshop labor, outsourcing, restriction of both labor and human rights....you name it. I don't know *how* to make it any more clear.

Sorry to go on so...and thanks for your time. -__-

Answer 5

HATE IT!

They're tax subsidized-meaning that the low prices you pay are really much higher when you figure in the money you've given out of your taxes.
They're anti-capitalistic. They force small business out of business by offering an everything you need in one place type shopping area with prices that most small business can't fight--small businesses aren't subsidized and but wholesale. Walmart has its orivately owned factories in China where their workers are in typical exloited conditions. They earn very little, work insane hours, and the kicker- they have rent taken out of their already low pay for the special wal mart dorms. Tiny apartments that would barely fit one person they force 8 people to share. If they want to move out, too bad. You can move out, but that rent money will still be taken. They don't treat their workers here much better. Its common knowledge now, after the recent class action suit, that women have a much lower rate of promotion than men. Monorities don't stand a chance. On top of that, managers often pressure thru underpaid workers to stay and work overtime unpaid. Usually they threaten with "If you won't stay and take inventory off the clock, I'll find someone who will". And how are they compensated? Minimum wage with atrocious health benefits. They often hand out info on how to use welfare and Medicaid to supplement their inadequate insurance.
BOYCOTT WALMART!

Answer 6

I do not get the people that hate it just because it is doing well. Wal-mart gives millions of people jobs and supplies.

Answer 7

It's okay, I don't hate or love it... it's good for some things, and terrible for others, like when it comes to tools I avoid Wal-Mart, but for things like paper products they are good....

Answer 8

It's just down the street and convenient like a 7-11 which is 30 miles away.

Answer 9

Neither. I don't go to Wal-Mart except once a year or so.

Answer 10

It's okay....because
1)It's too crowed
2)They don't have a great CD collection
3)Their clothes are NOT great
4)Hard to find help
5)They do have good quality of food
6)I'd prefer small stores (like DOTS and RAINBOW) for clothes because they DONT have a wide selection
7) ALL of this is MY OPINION