If Wallmart paid it's employees a living wage...

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24 Apr 2011, 11:33 am

http://www.alternet.org/economy/150685/if_walmart_paid_its_1.4_million_u.s._workers_a_living_wage%2C_it_would_result_in_almost_no_pain_for_the_average_customer/?page=2

Frankly I'm a bit tired of wall-mart, they are big, they are selfish, they destroy local businesses, and they are way to f**kin' big.

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24 Apr 2011, 11:43 am

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I'm sick of those big national chains in general. They drive down prices beyond a level that local businesses can compete at which results in money leaving the area and being centralized with those businesses.

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24 Apr 2011, 12:00 pm

If all these service jobs raised their employees' wages... costs would go up and it wouldn't do any good anyway. Basic economics.

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24 Apr 2011, 12:09 pm

I rarely go to wal-mart for anything other than ammo, and their prices are about the same.

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24 Apr 2011, 12:19 pm

Daryl_Blonder wrote:

If you actually read the article, you'd see that they covered that. It'd be 46 cents more per visit or roughtly $12 more per year.

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24 Apr 2011, 12:52 pm

Daryl_Blonder wrote:

Costs were covered in the article.

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24 Apr 2011, 12:54 pm

skafather84 wrote:

Daryl_Blonder wrote:

If you actually read the article, you'd see that they covered that. It'd be 46 cents more per visit or roughtly $12 more per year.

I had not read the article, but I had already suspected that might be the case.

It would be interesting to see the ratio between how many different items are in each store and how many visitors (customers) each store has per day ... and I bet Wal*Mart even pays attention to things like that.

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24 Apr 2011, 1:02 pm

Daryl_Blonder wrote:

If all these service jobs raised their employees' wages... costs would go up and it wouldn't do any good anyway. Basic economics.

Yet advanced economics that takes into acount information asymmetries, monopsony power, monopoly power, imperfect competition, and profit well above that possible in an "ideal economy" as well as taking into account institutional factors like top-heavy upper managment & short-term shareholders who crave dividends may explain otherwise.

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24 Apr 2011, 1:23 pm

So don't shop at Walmart? I don't, I prefer Target. Always seemed cleaner and less trashy to me although I guess some people dislike Target too tho.

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24 Apr 2011, 1:36 pm

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So don't shop at Walmart? I don't, I prefer Target. Always seemed cleaner and less trashy to me although I guess some people dislike Target too tho.

Agreed, seriously I usually find these complaint threads hilarious because the same individuals that yell about walmart mistreating its workforce are seen shopping at walmart the next day.

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24 Apr 2011, 2:16 pm

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Jacoby wrote:

So don't shop at Walmart? I don't, I prefer Target. Always seemed cleaner and less trashy to me although I guess some people dislike Target too tho.

Agreed, seriously I usually find these complaint threads hilarious because the same individuals that yell about walmart mistreating its workforce are seen shopping at walmart the next day.

In my own case, my wife and I live in a small town where a big Wal*Mart has driven the mom-and-pop stores out of business.

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24 Apr 2011, 4:00 pm

They didn't create this situation, they just exploited it, and rather effectively.

If you want to hate WAL-Mart, hate the millions who shop there to the tune of billions annually.

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24 Apr 2011, 4:01 pm

Inuyasha wrote:

Jacoby wrote:

So don't shop at Walmart? I don't, I prefer Target. Always seemed cleaner and less trashy to me although I guess some people dislike Target too tho.

Agreed, seriously I usually find these complaint threads hilarious because the same individuals that yell about walmart mistreating its workforce are seen shopping at walmart the next day.

....you know the shopping habits of WP members?

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24 Apr 2011, 7:18 pm

ikorack wrote:

Then don't buy from them.

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24 Apr 2011, 7:20 pm

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ikorack wrote:

Then don't buy from them.

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that and try to convince others not to buy from them. this is also part of your powers.

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24 Apr 2011, 7:22 pm

If walmart paid it's employees the living wage then the business would collapse and the CEO and the rest of the board of directors would be left begging for change in the streets.

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