Wal Mart info
Interesting article about Wal-Mart, although not the first of it's kind that I've read recently. Wal Mart is attempting to get into the "upperscale" market because their profits aren't what they should be due to the high price of gasoline and the fact that the one target market area they cater to is the poor people.... and the only market the gas prices affect.... is the poor people. So, instead of attempting to help this a bit and suck it up until after things settle down, Wal Mart has decided to go for Vogue advertising and to attemp to buy out their upper class competition, Target. All about the bottom line, isn't it?
One other article I found interesting, can be found here:
http://www.ufcw.org/issues_and_actions/walmart_workers_campaign_info/facts_and_figures/index.cfm
And, considering the fact that Wal-Mart closed down two of its stores in Canada becuase they became unionized.... I think this says something about their practices.
The more I read, the less inclined I am to shop there. Lisa might be working there right now, but we've decided to take our money and run. Groceries, except for certain items we can't find anywhere else in the area, are going to be bought at Hannaford and BJ's club. We've stopped our Sam's Club membership and I started going to Rite Aid for prescriptions now.
It might not make a difference, simply one family making that choice, but I figure if enough of us do it, then perhaps their sales for the year might force them to start consider other options other than keeping their employees at poverty wages.
I'd like to see a few Wal Mart stores close, not becuase they want to stop their employees from getting things they deserve, but because the community simply doesn't want them anymore.
However, I believe it will have to be the vendors who end up getting rid of the retail giant. Vendors are the ones losing money, too. Vendors who are forced to sell their goods at the prices Wal Mart tells them they have to if they want to do business. Contracts of this manner force many vendors to sell products so cheaply that they cannot make a profit any longer and are forced into bankruptcy or to lay off more workers (who probably end up at Wal Mart simply because there is no other place to work in town).
It's a shame that our world has come to this....
a true shame.
One other article I found interesting, can be found here:
http://www.ufcw.org/issues_and_actions/walmart_workers_campaign_info/facts_and_figures/index.cfm
And, considering the fact that Wal-Mart closed down two of its stores in Canada becuase they became unionized.... I think this says something about their practices.
The more I read, the less inclined I am to shop there. Lisa might be working there right now, but we've decided to take our money and run. Groceries, except for certain items we can't find anywhere else in the area, are going to be bought at Hannaford and BJ's club. We've stopped our Sam's Club membership and I started going to Rite Aid for prescriptions now.
It might not make a difference, simply one family making that choice, but I figure if enough of us do it, then perhaps their sales for the year might force them to start consider other options other than keeping their employees at poverty wages.
I'd like to see a few Wal Mart stores close, not becuase they want to stop their employees from getting things they deserve, but because the community simply doesn't want them anymore.
However, I believe it will have to be the vendors who end up getting rid of the retail giant. Vendors are the ones losing money, too. Vendors who are forced to sell their goods at the prices Wal Mart tells them they have to if they want to do business. Contracts of this manner force many vendors to sell products so cheaply that they cannot make a profit any longer and are forced into bankruptcy or to lay off more workers (who probably end up at Wal Mart simply because there is no other place to work in town).
It's a shame that our world has come to this....
a true shame.
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