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Wal-Mart Asks Workers To Donate Food To Its Needy Employees

Not likely....More likely is lip service to you while making sure that the largest employer in his district is taken care of. These feel good astro turf hoopla, organized by unions that only want to bolster membership, and prices to you be damned, survive on lying to those of you who back them....but that is my opinion.
Really? In my opinion it wasn't lip service that helped out Mitt Romney from Barack Obama in that last presidential election. ;)
 
I've been away from this thread for a while so my apologies if this has been referenced already but does anyone really believe that Walmart owners/management came up with this idea? Isn't it far more likely that it was an employee suggestion or a request made by a group of employees who wanted to help out less fortunate fellow workers they know about?

Irrespective of the source, I find it incredible that people would criticize any call to give, call to be charitable, particularly at times like Thanksgiving and Christmas, regardless of the circumstances.

Some people would forget how to breath if they didn't have something to bitch about.
 
I've been away from this thread for a while so my apologies if this is been referenced already but does anyone really believe that Walmart owners/management came up with this idea? Isn't it far more likely that it was an employee suggestion or a request made by a group of employees who wanted to help out less fortunate fellow workers they know about?

Irrespective of the source, I find it incredible that people would criticize any call to give, call to be charitable, particularly at times like Thanksgiving and Christmas, regardless of the circumstances.

Some people would forget how to breath if they didn't have something to bitch about.
We're not calling out the request to give as much as the Walmart history of low wages that require the request while the corp and it's owners walk away with billions.
 
You are entirely misunderstanding what Walmart is doing. Go back and re-read. They are asking their employees to donate to their employees, not the elderly or children, just their own hungry Walmart employees. Hence they could and should just do that themselves and make sure their employees make enough or are given enough (food baskets) to not be hungry.

you are the second person in this thread to accuse me of misunderstanding the article. I didn't misunderstand the article. I understand the article very clearly. I am also of the understanding that, just because you have a job, doesn't mean that you can afford certain things. It's called the working poor.

Now, I'll ask you again. If you were a Walmart employee, would you donate a 1 dollar box of Stove Top stuffing to help feed an elderly person on a fixed income?
 
you are the second person in this thread to accuse me of misunderstanding the article. I didn't misunderstand the article. I understand the article very clearly. I am also of the understanding that, just because you have a job, doesn't mean that you can afford certain things. It's called the working poor.

Now, I'll ask you again. If you were a Walmart employee, would you donate a 1 dollar box of Stove Top stuffing to help feed an elderly person on a fixed income?

Since you're not dealing with the topic at hand, I'll say.... bless your heart.
 
We're not calling out the request to give as much as the Walmart history of low wages that require the request while the corp and it's owners walk away with billions.

If Walmart raised it's wages, it'd have to raise it's prices, and people would be bitching about that.

Sheesh. :roll:
 
Since you're not dealing with the topic at hand, I'll say.... bless your heart.

So you won't even give me a simple answer? You can keep your "bless your heart" all you want, because your refusal to answer tells me everything I need to know - that you would not donate a $1 box of stuffing to help someone who was hungry. Wow.
 
We're not calling out the request to give as much as the Walmart history of low wages that require the request while the corp and it's owners walk away with billions.

The corporation has 2.2 million employees worldwide - none of them are slaves or forced into labor unwillingly.

The corporation has sales in excess of $460 billion, making it the largest retailer in the world, making it a retail outlet that serves the needs of millions of people, none of them enslaved and forced into shopping at their stores.

The corporation generates significant sales tax, corporate tax, and property tax revenue for the jurisdictions in which their 11,000 stores are located.

Sounds to me like Walmart is the scourge of the earth.
 
I've been away from this thread for a while so my apologies if this has been referenced already but does anyone really believe that Walmart owners/management came up with this idea? Isn't it far more likely that it was an employee suggestion or a request made by a group of employees who wanted to help out less fortunate fellow workers they know about?

Irrespective of the source, I find it incredible that people would criticize any call to give, call to be charitable, particularly at times like Thanksgiving and Christmas, regardless of the circumstances.

Some people would forget how to breath if they didn't have something to bitch about.
The whole point of this thread CJ is that here we have people with gainful employment requiring charitable assistance (That's charitable, CJ.) when it should be businesses solving economical problems instead of charities or government.

Yes, the very same business that receives subsidies from local and state areas have no problem asking for assistance, when they could pay for these things themselves, show their true charitable, communal-relations by not paying it's employees a livable salary.

How hypocritical. :roll:
 
If Walmart raised it's wages, it'd have to raise it's prices, and people would be bitching about that.

Sheesh. :roll:
Walmart can raise it's prices without raising wages. I have seen this at other businesses all the time; it's nothing new. :yawn:
 
Bob - would you donate $1 to help someone that was hungry? Just a dollar.
 
The whole point of this thread CJ is that here we have people with gainful employment requiring charitable assistance (That's charitable, CJ.) when it should be businesses solving economical problems instead of charities or government.

Yes, the very same business that receives subsidies from local and state areas have no problem asking for assistance, when they could pay for these things themselves, show their true charitable, communal-relations by not paying it's employees a livable salary.

How hypocritical. :roll:

Sorry to disappoint you but it's not a businesses' responsibility to pay employees a "livable salary". The vast majority of employees at Walmart and other businesses like them are part-time employees. Is Walmart required to pay someone who works 10 hours a week $50,000, $60,000 a year in salary because you think they owe all their employees a comfortable life?

When I was working, my career was in education - we frequently had food drives and Christmas gift collections for employees and students whom our social work department knew were in need of assistance from time to time. I suppose, in your world, the employees of the school board shouldn't have been allowed to anonymously give food and gifts to help people out - the school board should have just taken the responsibility to make all those in their sphere whole.

I'll tell you one thing I've learned over the years - people are far more likely to give charitably, particularly to someone they know, if the giving and the receiving is anonymous and there's no level of embarrassment involved.
 
At an average salary of 11 dollars an hour, most WalMart employees are already overpaid. Working full time at WalMart they can make $1760 a month. Considering who they hire and what their skillsets are, Id say they are doing them a SECOND favor by taking up additional donations for them.
 
Bob - would you donate $1 to help someone that was hungry? Just a dollar.

But it's not his job, nor is it Summer's. Since Wal-mart has more than they do, they're obligated.

By running a successful business, Wal-mart must be punished. It's easier to do that and just label them some "heartless company" than to be rational and understand why they have said success.

It's a thief mentality.
 
Well it appears that a Cleveland, Ohio Walmart is holding a food drive so that it's employees can have a nice Holiday meal. The sign in the store, accompanied by several plastic bins, reads: "Please donate food items so associates in need can enjoy Thanksgiving dinner."

Really? Thank goodness those people are employed so those associates don't have to get on food stamps. :roll:

What cracks me up with some people that see nothing wrong with what Walmart is doing would probably go berserk if you wished them "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas." :roll:

Another classic Walmart move!
 
Sorry to disappoint you but it's not a businesses' responsibility to pay employees a "livable salary". The vast majority of employees at Walmart and other businesses like them are part-time employees. Is Walmart required to pay someone who works 10 hours a week $50,000, $60,000 a year in salary because you think they owe all their employees a comfortable life?

When I was working, my career was in education - we frequently had food drives and Christmas gift collections for employees and students whom our social work department knew were in need of assistance from time to time. I suppose, in your world, the employees of the school board shouldn't have been allowed to anonymously give food and gifts to help people out - the school board should have just taken the responsibility to make all those in their sphere whole.

I'll tell you one thing I've learned over the years - people are far more likely to give charitably, particularly to someone they know, if the giving and the receiving is anonymous and there's no level of embarrassment involved.

Walmart's business model contributes to the welfare state.
 
The WalMart heirs - 4 of them - only have $20 BILLION dollars each so - accordingly to Obama - are SO poor they needed government welfare in the form of exemption from ObamaCare.

With 2.1 million employees. If each one recieved $5.00 per hour more, it would take a mere three years to deplete the 80B....
 
People on welfare contribute to the welfare state even more.

Difference is Walmart has the power to do the right thing but they choose not to do it. Instead they make massive profits off the backs of their employees and also government subsidies. They have their cake and eat it too.
 
Difference is Walmart has the power to do the right thing but they choose not to do it. Instead they make massive profits off the backs of their employees and also government subsidies. They have their cake and eat it too.

Don't shop there. Tell others not to shop there. Convince people to give up convenience and lower prices for customer service and "principle".

They pay people what the market says that they are worth. Wal-mart employees are unskilled, uneducated scrubs. They'll be paid like unskilled, uneducated scrubs. Economics is a better business tool than emotion and hyperbole.
 
Don't shop there. Tell others not to shop there. Convince people to give up convenience and lower prices for customer service and "principle".

They pay people what the market says that they are worth. Wal-mart employees are unskilled, uneducated scrubs. They'll be paid like unskilled, uneducated scrubs. Economics is a better business tool than emotion and hyperbole.

It's not hyperbole. Other business models have paid their employees better for doing the same thing. There is no reason they can't follow a more respectable business model. Also, I never shop at Walmart.
 
I agree. If you don't like Walmart's business model, don't shop there. Shop at Target. But before you do, go ask a Target employee how well they were treated. :lol: They make maybe a dollar more an hour, but that dollar an hour isn't going to help much. That might add up to $15 or $20 a week overall, so they're still broke.

But it's easy to hate on Walmart.
 
The vast majority of employees at Walmart and other businesses like them are part-time employees.
That's not what Kory Lundberg from Walmart said:

Then Lundberg led me deep into the company’s website to find where Wal-Mart states its average full-time hourly wage: $12.83. How many employees work full-time? Wal-Mart will only say that it’s the majority.

And if it's the majority, than 1.3 million people is a huge chunk. ;)

More Than Half of Wal-Mart's Hourly Workers Make Less Than $25,000
 
I agree. If you don't like Walmart's business model, don't shop there. Shop at Target. But before you do, go ask a Target employee how well they were treated. :lol: They make maybe a dollar more an hour, but that dollar an hour isn't going to help much. That might add up to $15 or $20 a week overall, so they're still broke.

But it's easy to hate on Walmart.

Yes, it is easy to dislike their business model only I don't blame the people that work their for being poor, I blame that business model.
 
It's not hyperbole. Other business models have paid their employees better for doing the same thing. There is no reason they can't follow a more respectable business model. Also, I never shop at Walmart.

And they're as successful as Wal-mart, right?

General Motors paid their employees a market-inefficient wage. Guess what happened to them?

Business models aren't meant to be "respectable". They're meant to be profitable. This is the hyperbole I'm talking about. I'm talking economic principle and policy, and you're trying to make things "fair".

Hell with Wal-mart - nothing in life operates with how the lowest common denominator think it "should" be. If it did, we'd all be a welfare case.
 
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