Two questions about Wal-Mart

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First Question: do you work for, or have you ever worked for, Wal-Mart?

Second Question: do you like Wal-Mart?

Answer to first question: No, I've not worked for Wal-Mart.
Second question: It's okay, I can alot of stuff I need for really cheap prices.

No.

No. They have anti-union practices, and they discriminate against women in their salary scales - they're currently subject to a class action lawsuit about that.

No and nope. However, and while it is the last place on the left on the way out of town, it is also just about the only place in town for most things. So, I go there when I must and then get back out of there just as quickly as possible.

I worked for Walmart for 5 years, I quit, it was stressful & not enough pay. I will never go back.

Never worked their & prefer almost any other store to Walmart due to crowding & filth.

No and no. I avoid Wal-Mart on principle alone. Even though Target and all other places have the same shady practices, I avoid Wal-Mart simply because I don't like what it represents.

I have never worked for Walmart.

I do not shop at Walmart. Same reasons as others mentioned - poor pay for employees, poor compensation for suppliers and anti-union practices. They also take part in something called "peasant insurance" where they take life insurance policies on their employees (not for the employees benefit, but so that they may collect the policy should the employee die!!). Shameful!

I think I remember reading something like that in the introductory paperwork, although not exactly that. Too bad I don't remember it for certain, but I think it had something to do with covering their legal fees in order to prove they're blameless in court.

First Question: do you work for, or have you ever worked for, Wal-Mart?
No, nope

Second Question: do you like Wal-Mart?
Don't have experience with Wal-mart since there is no Wal-mart in the Netherlands

Never worked for 'em, was never even tempted to.

Going to Wal-Mart. It depends.

When I was in high school and college, I was dating a girl got way too bored way too easily. So we'd just be hanging out and she'd randomly say, "hey, let's go to Wal-Mart." She didn't want to buy anything, she just wanted to go, and it ended up being the most random kind of impulse shopping I've ever seen. My attitude is if you're bored, why not do something cool like go to a movie or go bowling? You go to Wal-Mart just to buy random crap you'll never use, would it not be better going somewhere that you KNOW you'll be doing/buying something completely useless? So we go to Wal-Mart just to buy a towel or a bag of Doritos, and then have to actually stand in line behind people who are making big grocery purchases. I mean, come ON!! !

So, yeah, I got sick of Wal-Mart early on.

But where I live now, Wal-Mart is possible evidence that there really is such a place as Hades or purgatory. For the past month and a half, I've been plagues by awful colds. The first several were not really that severe, so I just toughed them out and chewed on the occasional cough drop. Well, my cold got severe enough that I figured the best thing I could do was get a good decongestant. As it turns out (damn those meth-heads), pseudoephedrine is a controlled substance in the state of Mississippi. After one difficult weekend, I had thought about going to the doctor to get a prescription but was over it by Monday. Two weeks later, I was down with another cold. This time I DO get a prescrip called in to Wal-Mart pharmacy. They act like they never heard of me. I try again. Still nothing. Another weekend passes, I get over it, and I don't think of it again. Two weeks later, yet another cold, and this one is REALLY severe and a sinus infection follows on its heels. I get the prescription called in, and they STILL pretend not to know what I'm talking about. So I call the doc's office again and get the receptionist to call again and give them a hard time over not filling the prescription. Their excuse? I didn't provide a date of birth or a physical address. Um... Could it possibly be that no one ASKED me, nor did I even KNOW I was supposed to? Good grief, people...

So that puts me in the position of mining my home for 3-year-old variants of pseudoephedrine and phenylephrine, all of which may or may not be good medicine, I have no idea just how long it's supposed to last, and I'm carefully rationing it so I can at least survive a very busy and stressful weekend. I FINALLY get the GOOD stuff, am profoundly drowsy all the time, but at least I can move around and take care of my kids without my head feeling like its about to explode.

Otherwise...

Going to Wal-Mart is consistently a miserable experience. Our Wal-Mart is a HUGE store with probably some 30+ checkout lines. Now, don't ask my why--either Wal-Mart created this store because it's fairly standard practice to do it that way but it isn't standard practice to hire that many people due to demographics and economics of the area, or the people in this area like their welfare checks too much to work for Wal-Mart--but with that many lines and less than half of them in operation, going to Wal-Mart is about as much fun as going to the doctor or the health department. Make a list of EXACTLY what you're going to get, spend between 15 and 30 minutes in your shopping, and get in line. Even with as few people as they have working there, the ones who DO work ought to move things through faster. But no, you've got at LEAST a 30 minute wait time. My latest excursion was primarily to get some drugs for my little girl, but now I'm faced with the prospect of feeding and entertaining my kids for the 30 minutes it's going to take to fill the prescription.

There is a Subway restaurant inside ours. So I figure, hmmm, get a sandwich, take our time eating, and we should be fine. Halfway through placing the order (and trying NOT to kill my son, bless his heart, he just wants to play), I notice they don't take bills less than a $20. Grrr. So I manage to leave the Subway, break a $100, and pay for our meal. The kids are behaving above par, so I got lucky this time. So now I go back to the pharmacy to go through an interrogation that would make the TSA proud, and FINALLY get out of there and proceed on my way. That was one of my better experiences with Wal-Mart and was actually not that bad. I was just thankful I wasn't standing in line at the "money center."

Who knew? A Wal-Mart experience with a happy ending. I just wish I could say it's always like that.

Worked for one only 3 months. Couldn't stand the stupidity of how it operated.

"Like" is a hard question. I shop there mostly because they are open at the time I happen to need something. I rarely find stuff there I have any use for, though.

"prove they're blameless in court"???

If one of their employees gets hit by a car while taking a walk with their child on their day off, Walmart collects. What would Walmart have to prove in court??? They get cheap insurance on their employees and collect the benefits. It is a business strategy to increase profits.

What would Wal-Mart have to prove in court? Well, if working conditions led to the death of an employee, then they'd need that insurance money to "prove" in court that working conditions "didn't" lead to the death of their employee. I'm certain they use it for simple profiteering off of the deaths of people even without a legal battle though, since that is what Wal-Mart's unwritten mission statement ought to be.

Walmart doesnt' need this insurance to "prove" in a court of law regarding a death because of working conditions. A company like Walmart has lawyers on their payroll already. It is profit driven - pure and simple.

Every little bit helps to ensure that the legalistic systems of all nations are nothing more than yet another profiteering scheme.