Why doesnt the government intervene and do something about Wal*Mart?

Question

A majority of their workers are on government assisted aide such as Medicaid and food stamps has the government not stepped in? They have sweat shops all over the world to make products the government knows this. I just got finished watching Walmart the cost of low prices thats why im so ticked off! So has anyone else watched it? How do you feel about wal mart?

UMMM HELLO PEOPLE im talking about how they use government aid rather than give good health care they encourage their workers to do so when they apply. im not that cheap and desperte to shop at walmart at the expense of other peoples lives

Answer 1

The government is not in the business of telling a business what they have to do. Maybe they should be but that is something that would have to be watched because I am not a believer in the government solving all the problems of people. Health care and insurance are a funny thng because many businesses cut cost by not providing it but at the same time offer higher hourly wages then those that do provide the benefits to get good people. If the government required a minimum medial insurance plan be provided by business we would pay for it-the business implements and then passes the cost on to the consumer. The soluton is not the government but WalMart changing the thinking and providing the benefit but that will drive up cost and possibly cost them business and then people lose there jobs. Foreign " sweatshops" have become a big buzz word and by our standards they are but if not for those sweat shops many of the poor underpaid people working there would have no job and starve; not defending the practice but in many of those countries that "sweat shop" pay of a $1.50 a day is above the average and makes them highly paid workers. Sounds bad but we can't judge everything by the American standard or standard of living. My wife is a progammer and much of the work has been outsourced to India based on pay scale-her pay is about what five Indians make but that is one of the higher paying jobs in India, the business is to a point taking advantage of situations but not really of the people. The latest outcry she is hearing is from India because they have started out sourcing to Malaysia and Singapore based on those programmers are cheaper then India's. If it really bother you then don't shop at WalMart or any other store that uses the system-well you will have use some of them or you would not buy anything anywhere.

Answer 2

They are a business and the government doesnt mess with large businesses who pay lots of taxes. Walmart doesnt own sweat shops, they buy from manufacturers who use them. Many of their workers are low pay (as is most retail) and work part time so they dont get any benefits. I'm not sure that Walmart is worse than Target, K-Mart or other stores but they sure get more publicity because they are so large. Consumers want low prices and this is how they are able to keep the prices low. I'm not much of a Walmart shopper but millions of others seem to be.

Answer 3

Start with googling "Hillary Clinton & Wal-Mart Board of directors" or walmart hillary clinton

The senator served on the Wal-Mart board from 1986 to 1992, and was close with the Walton family that created the nation's largest retailer.

Hmmmm
I did watch the show you mentioned.
I work there now. Why?
I want part time work, I'm in my 50's and dont want to stay home all the time, but dont want to work full time either
I can go to work and know someones life is not going to depend on me today & none of my patients will die today.
Its just a "no brainer" job I get paid and I don't have to think.
I work on my terms. If they dont like it too dang bad. I can find another job that probably pays more.

Answer 4

The government DOES intervene - they call it "setting (and occasionally raising) the minimum wage". There is a national "minimum wage" and most states have a "minimum wage", as well.
You cannot operate a business that deals in interstate commerce without adhering to the minimum wage laws.

Unfortunately, that minimum wage is not enough, in most states, to support a family, but Wal-Mart is far from being the only company that sets its pay scale that low.
They just happen to be THE favorite scapegoat. Competing store chains (who most likely pay precious little more) LOVE to encourage the anti-Wal-Mart sentiment because when a Wal-Mart moves into their area, THEY have to start giving the consumers a better deal in order to compete with it.
Large grocery chains are REALLY hotly and heavily settled in on that bandwagon!
When I was dating my current boyfriend and he was still living in a smaller community 200 miles down the Pacific coast from my city, I was AMAZED at how much lower the grocery prices were there. He explained that it was because they had a Wal-Mart superstore with a really large grocery department.
The city I live in is a pretty large city, but has only one little hole-in-the-wall Wal-Mart with next to no food section at all, so all the big grocery chain stores are priced so much higher!

Say what you will about Wal-Mart and corporate greed, but when they move into an area, they sure put the cap on all the OTHER chain stores' corporate greed!

Answer 5

because of the fact WalMart is this way of super super in the industry they could pay any fines the government tosses at them. On staggering of that, the techniques washed public keeps stepping into to the shops and paying for up the cheap products. purely making the situation worse. WalMart has have been given their providers in a strangle carry to boot, they could enormously lots dictate the fee they pay for the products.

Answer 6

with my incredibly low salary being in social services, Wal-Mart is a life saver for me so back off -

Answer 7

the ppl still work there so they must not care!! and as long as walmart is open, i will still shop there

Answer 8

People are always so quick to complain about low wages, but are even quicker at complaining when products cost more.

You can't have it both ways.

Answer 9

M*O*N*E*Y...And no-one here will work for $36 a month ( yes, month ) like they do in China.

Answer 10

Why oh why cant complainers DO the thing that they complain about?

Why don't YOU start a store that offers thousands of products at affordable prices? ANSWER, PLEASE.
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