Wal Mart cuts prices again

So you've been to the Wal*Mart management school?

 

Employees of Wal-Mart are not working-class, they're the working poor, thanks to North America's need to save $2.00 on a box of detergent.

 

I wasn't aware Target was an "elite circle."
Guess I'm living the high life. Woo-hoo!
Second that Darwin's Waiting Room comment, especially here in the South.

 

hondo my man, there you go picking a fight again, you great Christian man, you. If you want that, you shall have one.

Flabbergasting thing is, from reading your posts, you and I are in symmetry on just about everything but politics ... and Wal-Mart.

So much for your Great Uniter.

 

Strawman argument. If Wal-Mart jacked up prices, they wouldn't pay their employees any more.

Either get a better job, or deal with it. If Wal-Mart wasn't serving a purpose, it wouldn't exist.

 

IJAG
I'm not talking about jacking up prices. And the old "get a better job" argument isn't really relevant.

I'm talking about the fact that they have single-handedly replaced relatively well paying working-class jobs in the manufacturing sector with poverty level service jobs.

Their labour relations track record, aided and abetted by post Reagan "right to work" nonsense is Dickensian.

When the workers in a Quebec Wal-Mart tried to unionize, they shut the store down.

So much for their pious slogans about being "part of the community".

 

I heart Meijer's!

 

Oh, how I miss Meijer.

 

Ok, I'm just a dumb Canuckistanian.

What's "Meijer"?

 

It's a huge superstore like Wal-Mart, only with much better quality. Like on par with Target, only in a big huge massive size.

 

My aunt and uncle in Michigan always referred to this as "Meijer's Shifty Acres"

 

Started and headquartered in Grand Rapids, Mich. Have branched out to the neighboring states, but it's mainly a Michigan thing.