re: #72 Interesting Times

I don’t think Sam Walton was as spoiled and ruthless as his heirs either,but yep,with no customers you have no business. No business mogul is an angel,but I wonder what he’d think about what his company has turned into.

Besides how they treat their employees and how they use the government’s programs to get out of paying decent wages,I really despise what a WalMart does to local businesses when they move into a town. I know of a small town in Ohio where the Main Street is now empty. The only employer left is WalMart and a couple of fast food restaurants. There are no OB/GYN doctors,no Pediatricians,no specialists of any kind. Before WalMart there was a depressed economy,but the Main Street stores and businesses were plugging along and you didn’t have to drive 70 miles to find a decent doctor. All that has changed,and WalMart started that change.

Here’s the REALLY shitty part of this story though. This WalMart understaffs it’s store on purpose. There are NO full time employees except for a manager and an assistant manager. They have a ridiculously low amount in their budget for payroll that they are simply not allowed to increase even during the holiday season. There’s a waiting list to work there because there’s literally nothing else less than an hour away. People think when WalMart comes to town that it means more jobs and more prosperity,it doesn’t. I know someone who works at this store. She has for 6 yrs. Her last yearly raise was a nickel. She now makes 8.85 an hour.