Should employees of Walmart be fired if they shop at Kmart?

Answer 1

Yip, the should be hanged, drawn and quartered

Answer 2

That is just silly.

Firstly a company should encourage loyalty in their staff. Supermarkets give out employee discount cards for this very reason.

I know people who would never buy products made by the company they work for. One the hand, a doctor once told me that a sales representative from a pharma company insisted that the doctor only prescribe his companies drugs for his sons ilness....even after the doctor explained that no appropriate drugs were made by that company.

Companies are looking at ways to extend their control into everyday life. This is nothing new, many factory owners 100 years ago built villages for their employees and banned alchohol and controlled their behaviour.

In some countries companies give salary bonuses to people who exercise regularly.

But the legality and morality of firing someone who works for you, for shopping elsewhere is non-existentent. You are paying someone to do a job, once the job is over they are free agents.

But if you pay someone a bonus for lifestyle loyalty it is different. For example, if you pay a movie star to endorse your product, but they are found out not to use that product, then their contract can be terminated.

Answer 3

No. Not any more than an employee telling a customer that they saw the same product or service somewhere else cheaper. It is all part of fair & equal competition between businesses. If your employees know that you are a price gouger, then they have a duty to inform the public -or the business could face being reported to the BBB (Better Business Bureau).

Answer 4

First of all, using such tactics is illegal and I do believe Wall Mart has been called on the carpet for this before. Second, unless you blab all over the place what you're doing, the ballot is secret and so is your vote. Third, boycotting major stores like Wall Mart has never worked because of the volume of business they do and market demand for their services. Fourth, I used to be a labor union president and pretty much had, and still do, the same opinion as you about union conduct and that not only put me at odds with the national but add odds with my government employer, ie: between a rock and a hard place. I can understand their motive and where they're coming from but that still does not make it right. That's why I am no longer a Democrat because they are birds of a feather and are politically intertwined and that doesn't win me any friends either. Sometimes doing what is right will put you at odds with friends, family and acquaintences in business and society. Doing what's right is what counts, not peer pressure or some employer's or political party's agenda. Do your homework and take the rhetoric with a grain of salt. No matter who wins, every election is a new adventure into the unknown and we better have somebody at the helm that knows what is ahead better than the rest of us. We put our full faith and trust into the people we elect and to date we have been sorely let down by both parties. After 40 years I left the Democrats and went Republican and now I'm dumping them and going Independent. I'm dissatisfied with the whole nine yards. As for Corporate America this is another area that the Democratic Party is clueless about no matter how many times they get slapped up aside the head. Democrats have a very bad habit of going out on a limb and then cutting off at the trunk. Then they bellyache about how hard they hit the ground and blame the whole thing on somebody else. We pay all the taxes! Corporate America collects them at the cash register and passes them on in their own name as their payout but it is coming out of our pocket. Democrats, and labor unions, do not get it. For some reason they just cannot do the math and they get furiously po'd when you confront them with it. They don't want to hear it! The "Right to Work" law is a corporate ploy to give them license to exploit their labor force for peanuts. The "closed shop" laws are a union ploy to exploit labor to their cause. Neither is an upright stance with an upright agenda. Both are geared to extract cash from empty pockets. Yours & mine! Employee handbooks are non-binding agreements with employees often mistaken for contracts. Not so! The labor laws that are in place are only enforceable if you've got the cash to prosecute them. Labor unions are the only vehicle which, by law, can provide a legally enforceable labor agreement which exceeds the parameters of common labor law and is fully enforceable as a result of the accumulated contributions of the union membership. I don't believe in the closed shop but if you are going to reap the benefits of an enforceable contract then you need to anti up for those benefits. My shop was an open union shop in a "Right to Work" state, Florida, which means even though everybody reaps the benefits only the members have to pay. Non-members are not entitled to legal representation through or from the union. They have to hire their own attorney and their own investigators to do the work that the union member gets for his/her dues. The union can represent non-members if that non-member wants to pay all the same costs that he/she would have had to pay had they hired outsiders to do the job. That's fair! Guess who the employer is going to pick to go out the door first? The one with the legal force to resist or the one with nothing but empty pockets?

Answer 5

of course not! the employees might find it more convenient because it's closer to his house, or its more competitive and offers better deals than walmart, etc... it's a personal choice!!

Answer 6

Wal-Mart sends it's employees out to check on the other stores all the time. so why fire them for doing price checking?

Answer 7

I assume they live in America. They would have a right to spend their money anyway they see fit as long as it is legal.

Answer 8

What you do while not at work is nobodys business but your own...as long as your not breaking the law.

Answer 9

no. it is a matter of choice,,, and they live in a free market economy.

Answer 10

no, if they need stuff, they can go wherever the heck they want.