Taxpayers are having to subsidize and feed their employees. Corporate welfare. Thought you'd be all over something like that.
I don't agree with our current welfare system, but that isn't at the hands of Walmart. Walmart stores are generally located in places with limited retail options, and provide jobs that the area otherwise wouldn't have.
a) the low pay of their employees goes directly to consumers (walmart has razor thin margins). so in the end everyone benefits. b) the types of folks willing to work for that wage surely aren't going to making more money elsewhere because well they would be working elsewhere. therefore you are depriving those people of jobs. take a look at the average cashier at walmart and compare it to say trader joes and don't tell me those are the same people competing for those jobs.
Plus a slightly smaller percentage of Walmart’s workforce receives public benefits than the average of the U.S. retail sector as a whole.
It undercuts local businesses that would keep more money in the community. Isn't there studies on this?
a walmart creates a shitload of sales tax revenue. and who is to say said local business isn't hiring people at minimum wage as volst suggested or is spending their profits in that community? there have been plenty of studies on both sides. but I wouldn't say they are very easy to calculate. hard for me to believe the benefit of low prices to low income people and the sales tax revenue doesn't far outweigh the negatives.
Never had a problem with Suntrust. Been with them for 13 years. Been dealing with the same tellers and managers at the same branch for a large part of that time.
Sears and Roebucks catalogs did too when they started sending them out. But the communities were also made richer by more choices at lower prices than local businesses can provide.
let's also not forget that people from outside the community will go to walmart, but are unlikely to go to the local mom and pop.
I really believe in buying local, but I don't hate on people that does business with big box stores because it makes sense money wise.
I buy local if the quality or price is better (sometimes service when it comes to say a hardware store), but that's it. I'm not subsidizing antiquated business models just for the sake of it.
I hate WalMart because I think a lot of their stuff is shit, it's generally a pain in the ass to get in and out of, their stores always seem dirty and I have a million other options that are closer and better. And I can't say I agree with labor practices.
Why is that; are employees living beyond their means (i.e., having children that they cannot afford)? Heaven forbid that there be some personal accountability.
