Why would anyone shop @ Wal-mart?

Question

Im sick of hearing about how they have the best prices! for one i think there are plenty of businesses that compete with them and two WHO CARES! you might save 5 or 10 cents on tube socks but in the end your letting this corporate behemoth to get away with.
(1) Not paying their employees a liveable wage, Its so bad that many Wal-Mart employees are collecting off of social service programs ..Paid for by taxpayers!
(2) Not giving thier employees a viable health care program, Instead they instruct their emploees how to get Goverment subsidized health care easier..Again paid for by taxpayers.
(3) they encourage companies to relocate (outsource) to other contries when they cannot get goods from the for lower prices, Hey Wal Mart your idea that you can set a price has outsourced hundreds of thousands of jobs ..but they dont care and niether will the public until its sent into a depression and there no longer is a middle class!!!

Thats a hell of a price to pay to save 10 cents on sock

Answer 1

Right on! I personally have never shopped there nor will I. As to them having the best prices I don't believe it. I live near a small city and I have found several places that have as good or better prices.

Answer 2

If the savings was only 10 cents, I would probably go to the store closest to me. But the savings is a lot more than that, so that's why I shop at Wal-Mart. My husband and I live on a fixed income, we have so much a month coming in and no chance of any more. So we shop where we get the best value for our dollar. Their toiletries are much cheaper than any where else, they also have great sales.

Answer 3

There are many things I don't agree with when it comes to Wal-Mart; I used to work there and hated every day of it. I'm just not the retail type, and there were a few things I thought sketchy. But all this "bad image" stuff has me baffled.

I for one did not have to live off welfare, and I was an hourly employee with a full-time student husband (of course, his tuition was paid with scholarships and loans, but that all came before we met). After our son was born, my husband simply had to add to our income with a part-time job. Not only that, but we lived in an expensive, "resort" area, and survived after my husband graduated just fine without government help. And no, we weren't starving ourselves; we actually ate quite well, even without food stamps (and probably better than if we had them). It would have been just as easy for a single person to survive without government help, so long as they knew how to live financially wise (and I emphasize that--wisdom with finances is always key)!

And as for health care, their program was ten times better than the state of Colorado offers for their state-level employees (there is no comparison between having the same monthly principle, but with a $350 deductible for Wal-Mart and a $1500 deductible for the state). And Wal-Mart's was not government subsidized.

And third, I only shopped there because I had an employee discount. Now I only shop there because where I'm living, its the only store in the area with the truly lowest prices. Also, it is the only store that carries what most don't. There is a stark difference between the Wal-Mart where we live, and the other local stores, especially for big items. And as the first answerer pointed out, sometimes those 5 or 10 cents can really make the difference.

Also where I use to live, it was very difficult to find jobs. Most were mom-pop stores that would only pay you federal minimum wage (which was 5.15/hour). Both times I worked for Wal-Mart, I started out nearly two dollars higher than federal minimum wage. So, if the federal government has decided that less than 6 dollars an hour is a livable wage for the entire country, then how is Wal-Mart unfair for employing at or higher than federal minimum wage? A little puzzling, don't you think?

And as for outsourcing ... Wal-Mart has been known to be very rough with other businesses and their products, but Wal-Mart is hardly the only company that has outsourced to other companies. Really, outsourcing has become a plague-like phenomena. Don't judge just one company too quickly; if you did a little research, you might be surprised over just how many companies actually outsource just as much and as often.

Answer 4

Many people don't have the luxury of shopping at anywhere then a WalMart. They are on fixed incomes where 10 cents here and there makes the different between them eating or just being able to feed their kids. I'm not saying what WalMart is doing is right, just that some are forced to shop there because of the prices.

Answer 5

actually you ought to end procuring there. That corparation is assisting to cripple usa. the government has instructed them they should initiate offering greater suitable coverage to greater workers, through fact it became discovered that Walmart workers are a measurable burden on government help. additionally, in case you have been paying interest to the presidential campaigns you at the instant are conscious that Walmart became the heavy hitter in getting the invoice squashed that could desire to make inspections on imported boxes mandatory. nicely..a 300 and sixty 5 days later we've thousands and thousands of poisoned and contaminated toys all for the time of usa. thank you to bypass Wal-Mart the government ought to close them down

Answer 6

I started shopping there many years ago, when my children were small. As a working mother you could not beat their prices and the time saved by shopping under one roof
was astronomical. The lay away allowed us to purchase things that we might otherwise not have gotten.
But I have stopped. There is no longer a lay-away, their prices
are no longer competitive. They have absolutely no social conscience and they are as close to a sweat shop as America comes. So I had to put them down

Answer 7

how are the salaries and benefits at Sears or Kmart or 7-Eleven or Lowe's or a Mom and Pop hardware store? I have no idea, but those places are smaller and less successful than Wal-Mart so they don't have labor unions attacking them. if you have the time and energy to go around griping about Wal-mart, that's your business, but to me it seems like banging your head against the wall since you're not going to make them go away.

Answer 8

Nice try. Who do you work for K-Mart? LOL! I know some people who work for Wal Mart and they rave about employee benefits.

Answer 9

I agreed with Jellybean