Why does everyone hate Walmart?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They treat their workers like crap - making them work extra unpaid hours and then not giving them health insurance because they ‘haven’t worked eniugh’. The pay is so low everyone needs food stamps or to hit the food bank.
The food they sell is largely processed junk. The merchandise is often cheap and there’s a lot of plastic junk sold that NO ONE NEEDS. Manufacturing that junk means pollution and slave labor in some other country .

What’s to buy there anyway? Shampoo maybe?

They also won’t give people fixed schedules so they aren’t able to get other jobs. So they’re stuck with 30 hours a week at Walmart which won’t give you more hours bc then they have to provide benefits but also unable to pick up another job elsewhere. They use very deceptive tactics for driving out competitors, operating a store at a loss until the competitors close than raising their prices back up to normal levels. They fire any employees that try to organize and in general are value destructive for communities driving out better paying jobs at competitors

Yea- NO THANKS!
America really needs to develop a soul again some day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because it's not Costco, which incidentally has put mom and pop companies out of business than Walmart. Just learned that today. So now I have a whole new opinion about Walmart.

Costco pays their employees a decent wage and gives workers decent hours and great benefits.
Costco isn’t perfect but overall it’s a good egg. A very good egg.

[Anonymous]

I used to live in a town where there was three Walmart's and nothing else and I'm very grateful to have other options.

US taxpayers are literally subsidizing their low low low salaries. most Walmart workers are on some kind of Public Assistance because the salaries are too low. They tried to make everybody go part-time to avoid paying for Obamacare and of course that blew up in everyone's face.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because it's not Costco, which incidentally has put mom and pop companies out of business than Walmart. Just learned that today. So now I have a whole new opinion about Walmart.

Costco pays their employees a decent wage and gives workers decent hours and great benefits.
Costco isn’t perfect but overall it’s a good egg. A very good egg.

Costco has some incredible worker retention rates, you see lots of people there who have been working at Costco for 10 15 or 20 years

[Anonymous]

I have never been inside a Walmart and have no intention of ever doing so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to live in a town where there was three Walmart's and nothing else and I'm very grateful to have other options.

US taxpayers are literally subsidizing their low low low salaries. most Walmart workers are on some kind of Public Assistance because the salaries are too low. They tried to make everybody go part-time to avoid paying for Obamacare and of course that blew up in everyone's face.

This. Walmart is a horrible company.

[Anonymous]

Too many fat white people in Walmart.

[Anonymous]

Everything’s a mess at Walmart. It smells. The bathrooms are worse than truck stops. And apparently people poop their pants there regularly. I don’t feel safe or clean going there.

[Anonymous]

• Because the parking lot is always a circus.
And there are never any decent parking spaces available after 2PM on weekdays + never (ever!!) on weekends.

• Because the stores are always very crowded & they are filled w/horrible drivers.
Cart drivers.

• Everyone (including the employees) are just plain RUDE!

• It is a rare thing to get great customer service there.
I attribute this to the fact that the people who work there are overworked while being grossly underpaid.

• The owner’s are very rich.
And they do not like to share.

Regardless Walmart is still, and will always be my go to stop for toiletries, sundries, laundry soap, etc. vs. Target.

Sure it is always a huge hassle to go & one must bring a large amount of stored patience, but the prices just cannot be beat!!!!

[Anonymous]

They always seem dirty and disorganized.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They're rich. Just like Amazon/Jeff Bezos. And we all get to provide public assistance, because employee wages are crap.

If they're rich, can they pay their employees more?

Yes, they can, but don't. Why? Because they have us to supplement their wages, via welfare.
Genius!

and we supplement waiters and hairdressers by tipping. my last hair dresser was making 6 figures but I'm cheap if I only tip 15%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:• Because the parking lot is always a circus.
And there are never any decent parking spaces available after 2PM on weekdays + never (ever!!) on weekends.

• Because the stores are always very crowded & they are filled w/horrible drivers.
Cart drivers.

• Everyone (including the employees) are just plain RUDE!

• It is a rare thing to get great customer service there.
I attribute this to the fact that the people who work there are overworked while being grossly underpaid.

• The owner’s are very rich.
And they do not like to share.

Regardless Walmart is still, and will always be my go to stop for toiletries, sundries, laundry soap, etc. vs. Target.

Sure it is always a huge hassle to go & one must bring a large amount of stored patience, but the prices just cannot be beat!!!!

The greedy owners understand that Americans have no soul, I see. Good business decision for them then. Enjoy your cheap stuff, I’m sure you need all of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They're rich. Just like Amazon/Jeff Bezos. And we all get to provide public assistance, because employee wages are crap.

If they're rich, can they pay their employees more?

Yes, they can, but don't. Why? Because they have us to supplement their wages, via welfare.
Genius!

Which, in effect, is corporate welfare.

But blame that lady on food stamps, anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does Costco drive out its competitors?

Costco pays its workers a living wage and provides good benefits to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because it's not Costco, which incidentally has put mom and pop companies out of business than Walmart. Just learned that today. So now I have a whole new opinion about Walmart.

Costco pays their employees a decent wage and gives workers decent hours and great benefits.
Costco isn’t perfect but overall it’s a good egg. A very good egg.

Costco has some incredible worker retention rates, you see lots of people there who have been working at Costco for 10 15 or 20 years

It’s the benefits. My friend is working there ‘for the retirement benefits’ basically.