Ryan Schaecher
Well-Known Member
[NOTE: The boards are not letting me post this in one section, so it will be in two sections}
TJR may not but I will. Let me tell you a few things here:
1) Walmart is bringing competative products to communities that may not have had said products. For instance, up until 6 month ago, the only places in Jonesboro, Arkansas to buy a TV was Walmart and Officemax. Officemax had TV's 20" and smaller, where WalMart had all the sizes you could want.
2) For every Wal-mart store that goes into operation an average of over 200 permanent jobs are created (stockers, cashiers, maintainence, janatorial, management, etc). Some store hire double that.
3) When was the last time you saw a Walmart sitting by itself in a field? More than 75% of their stores are located in strip malls in heavy traffic areas. Most of the other stores in the strip mall benefit from Wal-mart being there generating traffice by their store. I know that if it were not for Walmart, I would not shop at Hibbet Sports, Payless Shoes, Goody's, Baskin Robins, Steak Escape, Dollar General, Friedman's Jewelers, and several other stores that surround the two Walmarts in town.
4) Yes, a few stores go out of business when Wal-mart comes to town. A FEW, that employ on average 4 people per store. It takes 50 average stores going out of business to make up the difference labor wise with (1) Walmart store. I know where I am at that never happened. I don't know of any store that has gone out of business solely because Walmart came into town.
5) Wages.... don't get me started. I've worked Union shops and I've worked Non-Union shops. Wages were similar for the same type of work. UPS is a Teamster shop. Been there, done that. Is there a need for someone who puts packages on a shelf in a truck to make $9.50 an hour? Should a bagger at Albertson's or Schnuck's make $11/hour? I am a well educated engineer. I spend 5 long years studying to get where I am. If I can do it, everyone can. I just hit the $21/hour mark this year. For every dollar that wages increase, it raises the prices on the goods and services produced by that organzation. When every company does this (which they have to do to maintain competability), all prices for G&S goes up and we have what is called INFLATION. Artificial inflation by the means of Taxes and Wage Hikes are not a good thing and severely diminish the growth of the economy as a whole. That means that there is actually less money in people's pockets.
6) Walmart offers low prices for several reasons, one of which is their cost of labor. If the cost of labor increases, prices will rise and the purchase power of the dollar will significantly diminish. Then it takes larger and larger wages to purchase the same items.
7) Walmart cashiers make above the minimum wage where I live.
8) Walmart along with McDonalds, Taco Bell and K-Mart are not supposed to be where you work as a cashier for life. They should be jumping off points for an actual career. Very few people will go from cashier to CFO.
9) The tax dollars generated by Wal-Mart on their daily sales is greater than the daily business sales of about 50% of the other businesses in town.
10) Walmart offers unskilled and uneducated laborors a chance to become self-sufficient and lean some of the necessary skills to obtain better and higher paying jobs
11) Pensions? WTF??!?! Are you nuts? Pensions worked real well for WorldCom, Adelphia, Enron, Global Crossing, etc. No thanks. Give me that money now and let me take of my own future, independant of what happens to the company in 40 years. I do not want to be tied to the production that future generations do. Worked real well for Delta, United, Ford, GM and othe
TJR may not but I will. Let me tell you a few things here:
1) Walmart is bringing competative products to communities that may not have had said products. For instance, up until 6 month ago, the only places in Jonesboro, Arkansas to buy a TV was Walmart and Officemax. Officemax had TV's 20" and smaller, where WalMart had all the sizes you could want.
2) For every Wal-mart store that goes into operation an average of over 200 permanent jobs are created (stockers, cashiers, maintainence, janatorial, management, etc). Some store hire double that.
3) When was the last time you saw a Walmart sitting by itself in a field? More than 75% of their stores are located in strip malls in heavy traffic areas. Most of the other stores in the strip mall benefit from Wal-mart being there generating traffice by their store. I know that if it were not for Walmart, I would not shop at Hibbet Sports, Payless Shoes, Goody's, Baskin Robins, Steak Escape, Dollar General, Friedman's Jewelers, and several other stores that surround the two Walmarts in town.
4) Yes, a few stores go out of business when Wal-mart comes to town. A FEW, that employ on average 4 people per store. It takes 50 average stores going out of business to make up the difference labor wise with (1) Walmart store. I know where I am at that never happened. I don't know of any store that has gone out of business solely because Walmart came into town.
5) Wages.... don't get me started. I've worked Union shops and I've worked Non-Union shops. Wages were similar for the same type of work. UPS is a Teamster shop. Been there, done that. Is there a need for someone who puts packages on a shelf in a truck to make $9.50 an hour? Should a bagger at Albertson's or Schnuck's make $11/hour? I am a well educated engineer. I spend 5 long years studying to get where I am. If I can do it, everyone can. I just hit the $21/hour mark this year. For every dollar that wages increase, it raises the prices on the goods and services produced by that organzation. When every company does this (which they have to do to maintain competability), all prices for G&S goes up and we have what is called INFLATION. Artificial inflation by the means of Taxes and Wage Hikes are not a good thing and severely diminish the growth of the economy as a whole. That means that there is actually less money in people's pockets.
6) Walmart offers low prices for several reasons, one of which is their cost of labor. If the cost of labor increases, prices will rise and the purchase power of the dollar will significantly diminish. Then it takes larger and larger wages to purchase the same items.
7) Walmart cashiers make above the minimum wage where I live.
8) Walmart along with McDonalds, Taco Bell and K-Mart are not supposed to be where you work as a cashier for life. They should be jumping off points for an actual career. Very few people will go from cashier to CFO.
9) The tax dollars generated by Wal-Mart on their daily sales is greater than the daily business sales of about 50% of the other businesses in town.
10) Walmart offers unskilled and uneducated laborors a chance to become self-sufficient and lean some of the necessary skills to obtain better and higher paying jobs
11) Pensions? WTF??!?! Are you nuts? Pensions worked real well for WorldCom, Adelphia, Enron, Global Crossing, etc. No thanks. Give me that money now and let me take of my own future, independant of what happens to the company in 40 years. I do not want to be tied to the production that future generations do. Worked real well for Delta, United, Ford, GM and othe
