Disney crocs at Walmarts!

[alecshawn]

So I gotta add my 2 cents, I work for walmart...thats right, I work 40 hours a week at a local walmart!! I LOVE WALMART!! not only do I love to shop there since I get 10% off, but I love to wrok there since in these hard times most businesses are going down, where as my walmart has been up in sales for MONTHS!!I recieved a bonus check worth one weeks for the past three months, yes, 100$ extra a month, doesnt seem that much, but when broken down, its great! To have an extra 300 on top of your normal check every 3 months.. pretty good if u ask me! I also shop at walmart for everything except a few groceries. I love my walmart!!! This isnt meant as an advertisement, but truthfully, I bought my daughter a "toy" here, that at Disney, cost her grandmother more than twice... same thing, different character...

America and Capitalism.....isnt it GREAT!
I love Wal-Mart also!
Im a Professional firefighter/Medic and make around 60k per year...Wal-Mart saves me BIG bucks!
It doesnt make sense for me to shop anywhere else unless i need a specialty item.

 

[Uncle Lupe]

So I gotta add my 2 cents, I work for walmart...thats right, I work 40 hours a week at a local walmart!! I LOVE WALMART!! not only do I love to shop there since I get 10% off, but I love to wrok there since in these hard times most businesses are going down, where as my walmart has been up in sales for MONTHS!!I recieved a bonus check worth one weeks for the past three months, yes, 100$ extra a month, doesnt seem that much, but when broken down, its great! To have an extra 300 on top of your normal check every 3 months.. pretty good if u ask me! I also shop at walmart for everything except a few groceries. I love my walmart!!! This isnt meant as an advertisement, but truthfully, I bought my daughter a "toy" here, that at Disney, cost her grandmother more than twice... same thing, different character...

If sweat is a problem you can just hose off your "crocs" I guess.

I still think a pair of black "'crocs" in a size 13-14 mens would look like Goofy shoes. Even normal shoes look weird that big sometimes. I can't buy shoes @ footlocker unless I shop the giant neon colored basketball shoe clearance wall, so I quit even going in those stores.

Glad to hear you are doing great @ sales. My store was flat this quarter, but or theft is up! Another bad side effect of the economy. :brick:

 

[Uncle Lupe]

America and Capitalism.....isnt it GREAT!
I love Wal-Mart also!
Im a Professional firefighter/Medic and make around 60k per year...Wal-Mart saves me BIG bucks!
It doesnt make sense for me to shop anywhere else unless i need a specialty item.

I agree. Learned the hard way, if you need a good exterior door lock kit just goto Lowe's.

 

[Pumbas Nakasak]

All I can say is I am glad my choices arent so limited. :shrug: As for the specialist items, what happens when all thats left is the Walmarts of the world? Youll take what they offer and youd better damn well like it.:drevil:

 

[TakeMeThere81]

While I am not a "fan" of Wal-Mart I have to admit they do save me quite a bit of money on groceries and basic HBA stuff and in this economy I will do what I have to in order to save some money just in case DH or I don't have a job tomorrow.

I think this best describes my opinion of Walmart. Its not my favorite place to shop really. So I shop around, check prices and such. But Walmart is almost always the least expensive.

We're a military family and we save money however we can. That way we've got more money to do fun things...such as go to WDW!!:wave:

 

[slappy magoo]

My wife loves crocs and we both love Wal Mart. (not sure if the ones in mention) are "real or not"
Why shop elsewhere and pay more? That kinda goes against basic economics. I work hard for my money and im not spending more than i have to.
We obviously shop elsewhere for specialty items, but for everday things and groceries.....gotta love WalMart.

Well, basic economics is one thing. Basic socio-economics is something else.

Quite often when Wal-Mart opens a new store, lots of stores around it suffer. Sure, it's survival of the fittest in retail, got it. Problem is, as stores suffer, and close, more people in those communities go out of work. Wal-Mart can't hire all of them, and those that do usually make far far less (those low wages are savings that are of course passed on to you, which seems awesome for you). As more and more stores go out of business, property values start to decline. Those communities may start to make up for the loss of revenue from the sales tax those other stores generated by trying to raise property taxes. Meanwhile, because various retail businesses are suffering and closing in those communities, OTHER businesses start to suffer as well, because a: some people have lost jobs and b: Wal-Mart employees make comparably less than their retail counterparts. Everything from restaurants and movie theaters to car dealerships start to feel a pinch.

Meanwhile, WalMart has a long history of treating their employees poorly. Forcing them to work just enough hours to not get benefits. They have management actually show their employees how to get public assistance for medical care (which means some of the money you save by shopping at Wal-Mart you pay in taxes so Wal mart employees can go to the doctor, hakuna, meet mutata). And because they're looking for the cheapest stuff to sell their shoppers, they have comparably less stuff Made In America. I know, who DOES have stuff Made In America anymore? But when you think about how ginormous WalMart is, and how they could actually set up shops in America to hire Americans to make American products that can still be sold relatively cheaply in WalMart stores (since they own the means of production thereby eliminating the need for any drastic markup), making the country a truly better place, but no, they'd rather get everything from China & Sri Lanka and sell it 50 cents cheaper than anyone else.

That documentary someone linked to above, I assume, is "WalMart: The High Cost of Low Prices." It's an eye-opener, and I'd recommend it. I'm not perfect, and I've shopped in WalMart on occasion when it was a necessity. But God, how I avoid it like the plague. There are places in the country where there was nothing before Wal Mart, and as a result, people can get their necessities without having to drive hours, and I can certainly understand and appreciate the need for a store in those areas. But there are many more places in the country where Main Streets are decimated, families forced to move, lives disrupted because Wal Mart came to town. And it's a price we all pay, even when we think we're saving money.

 

[WDWNooby]

It's a shame that Disney allows it's stuff to be sold in that awful store.

This awful store happens to pay my single parent daughter the wage that allows my granddaughter to have a place to live and food on the table.

And I happily bought her Tinkerbell *croclikes* to help announce her surprise trip to the World.

 

[slappy magoo]

This awful store happens to pay my single parent daughter the wage that allows my granddaughter to have a place to live and food on the table.

All snarkiness aside - in other words, I am not trying to, nor will I, get into a cybershouting match over this - is it fair to ask what your daughter's position is in Walmart? Is it one of the retail clerks, the people who will deal most directly with customers, or does she have some upper management position? And when you talk about the wage she makes, is she living well? I don't mean, is she living high on the hog, caviar and champagne every night. I mean is she living in what's considered a "safe" neighborhood? Does she have full benefits from WalMart? Or is she on some other insurance plan, like yours, or a government plan? Is the baby eating well (quantity as well as nutritionally)? Is your daughter buying most of her food at WalMart and would she be able to afford the same foods were she not getting an employee discount? If she is buying most of her food there, is her WalMart one of the WalMarts that actually has fresh produce (many WalMarts only sell processed foods, no fruits or vegies unless they're canned in sugary syrups or flash-frozen after getting laden with salt)? If her job were your job, do you feel like you can live off that salary?

I'm really not trying to be obtrusive into you our your family's life. But the simple fact is, many people who work in the entry level WalMart jobs are usually considered to be living at or below the poverty line. Kids are often considered malnourished - they eat plenty of food, but the stores often sell poor nutritional offerings, with the exception of baby foods (you didn't specify whether or not your grandchild is a baby or not, so I don't know). Maybe your daughter is that rare specimen - a WalMart employee who "works the floor" yet is paid well enough to support herself in her own apartment or home, caring for a child, full bennies and child care, so she doesn't need to work a second job and doesn't have to rely on anyone else. And if so, good for her, and good for WalMart. But that would not be the norm.

 

[Uncle Lupe]

You don't get a discount on food unless it is produce or junk food. Many new Walmarts are helping to create shopping centers. Walmart with other retail outlets available in the same complex. Using the standard argument that Walmart closes business is misinformed. When you can drive traffic to a certain area all business around that area see increased traffic flow. Which leads to continued expansion with new restaurants, banks, specialty shop etc and new jobs.

When the new Walmart and shopping complex opened in Circleville, OH. The Bob Evans restaurant actually closed and built a new restaurant a few hundred feet away just to be on the same side on the street as the complex. Then another restaurant went into the old Bob Evans building.

When Chicago tried to keep big box retailers out and failed, the city tax revenue was increased.

No, mgt does not show or encourage you to get govt assistance. However if you do get full time you should hold on to that like a free lifetime pass to all Disney parks. Yeah with both hands!

How flame retardant are a pair of shoes made from expanded foam?

 

[accord99cutie]

All snarkiness aside - in other words, I am not trying to, nor will I, get into a cybershouting match over this - is it fair to ask what your daughter's position is in Walmart? Is it one of the retail clerks, the people who will deal most directly with customers, or does she have some upper management position? And when you talk about the wage she makes, is she living well? I don't mean, is she living high on the hog, caviar and champagne every night. I mean is she living in what's considered a "safe" neighborhood? Does she have full benefits from WalMart? Or is she on some other insurance plan, like yours, or a government plan? Is the baby eating well (quantity as well as nutritionally)? Is your daughter buying most of her food at WalMart and would she be able to afford the same foods were she not getting an employee discount? If she is buying most of her food there, is her WalMart one of the WalMarts that actually has fresh produce (many WalMarts only sell processed foods, no fruits or vegies unless they're canned in sugary syrups or flash-frozen after getting laden with salt)? If her job were your job, do you feel like you can live off that salary?

I'm really not trying to be obtrusive into you our your family's life. But the simple fact is, many people who work in the entry level WalMart jobs are usually considered to be living at or below the poverty line. Kids are often considered malnourished - they eat plenty of food, but the stores often sell poor nutritional offerings, with the exception of baby foods (you didn't specify whether or not your grandchild is a baby or not, so I don't know). Maybe your daughter is that rare specimen - a WalMart employee who "works the floor" yet is paid well enough to support herself in her own apartment or home, caring for a child, full bennies and child care, so she doesn't need to work a second job and doesn't have to rely on anyone else. And if so, good for her, and good for WalMart. But that would not be the norm.

Im not quite sure why some people have this outlook on Walmart Employees.... Its people like you that make me want to do illegal things:wave: My store manager who makes 6 digits, plus awesome bonuses, started at walmart as a teen father, he was 17. He has been with the company for only 10 years and moved his way up from cart pusher to Store manager. Most peole who work at walmart do so for 1 of 3 reasons. 1: They plan on working there way up in a company that can potentially pay them just as well as a job requiring a degree. 2. They are retired, or like me, cant stand to sit at home all day so they take a job at walmart to get out of the house, and work... it brings in extra income, decent benefits, paid vacations, sick pay and personal time. or 3. they arent looking at walmart as a career, but more as a place to work that gets them paid, and can be there for while they are in school, or until they can get into school. I hate that people look at us Walmart employees as someone who must not have an education, or who is on welfare, food stamps, and WIC. I am on none of these, i enjoy my job, and I love walmart. Thank you again for being one of "them".

 

[macsmom]

I know my local WM starts you out at more than minimum wage and you also get more $$ if you have previous experience. How much depends on how long you worked at your previous place, etc. However, right now, they are downsizing, and hiring only part timers right now - gotta make those profits by not paying benefits. But, the discount card does come in handy.

danna

 

[kadesha]

I went to our walmart looking for these today and they didn't have them!

 

[slappy magoo]

You don't get a discount on food unless it is produce or junk food. Many new Walmarts are helping to create shopping centers. Walmart with other retail outlets available in the same complex. Using the standard argument that Walmart closes business is misinformed. When you can drive traffic to a certain area all business around that area see increased traffic flow. Which leads to continued expansion with new restaurants, banks, specialty shop etc and new jobs.

When the new Walmart and shopping complex opened in Circleville, OH. The Bob Evans restaurant actually closed and built a new restaurant a few hundred feet away just to be on the same side on the street as the complex. Then another restaurant went into the old Bob Evans building.

When Chicago tried to keep big box retailers out and failed, the city tax revenue was increased.

No, mgt does not show or encourage you to get govt assistance. However if you do get full time you should hold on to that like a free lifetime pass to all Disney parks. Yeah with both hands!

How flame retardant are a pair of shoes made from expanded foam?

Allow me to translate...

When WalMart moves into a new area (for them) they usually look for undeveloped or at least underdeveloped land. Part of it is logistics - many retail establishments already built won't be large enough for the size of a Wal-Mart, and part of it is financial. They're looking for the cheapest land which often won't be on a currently existing Main Street. Lately, they've been offering up some of their space to outside chains, like Subway. These chains pay rent and a portion of profits to WalMart for the luxury of being in WalMart, and WalMart doesn't have to cover the costs or risk associated with food, win-win for them, plus if it keeps people in the building longer, they might buy more stuff. Win-win-win.

The lose, however, is, as I said before, on the other side of town, where Main Street used to be, only now WalMart, and the other stores that sprout around it. Most local mom and pop buisinesses can't compete, and since WalMart is a corporate entity, fewer profits are funneled back into the community, unlike a mom and pop store where mom and pop live in town and more of their profits go back into local businesses, local banks, etc. You could argue that since WalMart pulls down greater profits, it may offset the small profits generated from the ol' Main Street stores. It's as maybe, different results in different towns. Meanwhile, for every success story like the kid who went from herding carts to being a six-figure upper management, there are other WalMart employees who live at or below the poverty line...

Oh, and Uncle Lupe, my comment about WalMart management will show employees how to collect federal assistance? It's been documented; it's a big part of the documentary discussed earlier. I'm quite certain it's not part of any manager's job description, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. I used to work for a national pizza delivery chain who name rhymes with Shmomino's, back when they had their 30-minute-delivery-or-3-dollars-off-your-order deal. OFFICIALLY, all the drivers got extensive training about being speedy in the store, not in your car, our safety checkpoints, blah blah blah, but if you go to any former Shmomino's employee from that era and ask them what the "unofficial" rules were, they'll probably know it's a: Don't break the law and b: don't get caught. There's on the books and there's in the know, and don't pretend they both don't exist, it's embarrassing.

Im not quite sure why some people have this outlook on Walmart Employees.... Its people like you that make me want to do illegal things My store manager who makes 6 digits, plus awesome bonuses, started at walmart as a teen father, he was 17. He has been with the company for only 10 years and moved his way up from cart pusher to Store manager. Most peole who work at walmart do so for 1 of 3 reasons. 1: They plan on working there way up in a company that can potentially pay them just as well as a job requiring a degree. 2. They are retired, or like me, cant stand to sit at home all day so they take a job at walmart to get out of the house, and work... it brings in extra income, decent benefits, paid vacations, sick pay and personal time. or 3. they arent looking at walmart as a career, but more as a place to work that gets them paid, and can be there for while they are in school, or until they can get into school. I hate that people look at us Walmart employees as someone who must not have an education, or who is on welfare, food stamps, and WIC. I am on none of these, i enjoy my job, and I love walmart. Thank you again for being one of "them". -accord99cutie

Are you OK? Didn't hurt yourself, did ya? Usually, when people make leaps in logic that wide, they pull a hamstring...

You seem to be projecting some serious feelings of inadequacies, probably from people thinking WalMart employees are goobers and rubes, of which I am NOT one of them. I said nothing bad about WalMart employees, I merely pointed out many of them don't make much money, which is an indictment of the way WalMart treats entry-level employees, NOT an indictment of those employees. I know macsmom pointed out that at her WalMart, new workers get above the minimum wage. Considering the minimum wage is currently $6.5 an hour, and a single breadwinner of a family of 4 has to make $10.20 an hour just to techincally live above the poverty line (and that's a national average, which means $10.20 for a WalMart employee in a more urban area isn't going to stretch as far as $10.20 an hour for a WalMart employee in a rural area), you can see that bragging that WalMart employees make above the minimum wage isn't much to brag about. So you know some people who worked their way up the corporate ladder. Of course, some people will. But yeah, there are WalMart employees, depending on various external factors, who can't make enough money as a WalMart employee. Maybe not in your area - I did specify that there are stores in areas without as much of a business district, and often those are amongst the better jobs in those towns (a callous ______________ might look at your reverse snobbery of people who look down on WalMart employees and then crack wise about your lack of reading comprehension, I will leave that comment for a callous ______________ to make). Those people can quit, but go where? Especially now, in this economy? Thank you for being one of "them" ie people who use straw man arguments to make their case, only to wind up undermining it. I say plenty of obnoxious things, you don't have to make stuff up.

 

[WDWFigment]

I'm not going to spend the time writing a long response, because I think it'd be a waste of time as this topic teeters at becoming a locked political discussion, but I think it's worth pointing out that the cited documentary (along with a few other documentaries on Wal-Mart) isn't exactly the most objective look at Wal-Mart's business practices.

Now, I'm hardly jumping in the "pro-Walmart" camp here, as I have learned of a lot of suspect practices in which Wal-Mart engaged in attempting to circumvent, manipulate, and otherwise avoid zoning requirements (I did a thesis on Zoning Wal-Mart and other Big-Box retailers). Conversely, Wal-Mart I know does a lot of positive things as well (perhaps "motivated" by the fact that they'd otherwise be unable to gain zoning approval). Even with as much research as I've done, I'm sure I don't have a complete picture of the company's affairs in my mind. I would hazard a guess that a lot of others here (on both sides of the discussion) also lack a lot of information about the company and its practices.

Basically, what I'm saying is that it, just as it takes more than a (biased) anecdotal account of one's time employment to judge a complex corporation, so to does it take more than spending a couple hours watching a documentary or reading a website with an agenda.

 

[Uncle Lupe]

Allow me to translate...

Lately, they've been offering up some of their space to outside chains, like Subway. These chains pay rent and a portion of profits to WalMart for the luxury of being in WalMart, and WalMart doesn't have to cover the costs or risk associated with food, win-win for them, plus if it keeps people in the building longer, they might buy more stuff. Win-win-win.
.

They only pay rent. I wish we got a portion of the gas sales @ the Murphy station. They have to fill those tanks every other day. I don't buy my gas there, my Chrysler chokes on that swill.
I was talking about outside the building. Big building attached to a string of smaller buildings, a shopping complex!. Our management doesn't give direction on how to do your job let alone jump govt. hoops.

So... are crocs good for your feet or an orthopedic nightmare?

 

[accord99cutie]

I said nothing bad about WalMart employees

a single breadwinner of a family of 4 has to make $10.20 an hour just to techincally live above the poverty line (and that's a national average, which means $10.20 for a WalMart employee in a more urban area isn't going to stretch as far as $10.20 an hour for a WalMart employee in a rural area.

Im sorry that I took offense to the wording you used. I dont care for the fact that you said the posters daughter could be a "rare specimen". To me, those words sound demeaning.

Also, u say single breadwinner of a family of FOUR must make atleast $10.20.... I made above that amount within 3 months of working at walmart, and I was a single mother of ONE. People who work at walmart are not living in poverty. Maybe a small percentage, but that is not due to Walmart, that is probably due to debt they are in, and cirumstances that do not have to do with Walmart.

Now back to he original topic

Walmart Sells Mickey Mouse Imitaion Crocs!
have a magical day!

 

[Phonedave]

They only pay rent. I wish we got a portion of the gas sales @ the Murphy station. They have to fill those tanks every other day. I don't buy my gas there, my Chrysler chokes on that swill.

And there in lies the crux of the argument.

What happens when the local franchised gas stations in your area go out of business because Murphy - who is selling enough to fill their tanks ever other day - takes so many customers that those franchised stations must close. Then its swill for your car, with no choices.

I will be the first to stand up and cheer for capitlisim and "pure" business practices. Wal*Mart is doing nothing technicaly "wrong" in it's methods of grabbing market share. However you cannot turn a blind eye to how it is reducing the amount of variety that is available. Part of Wal*Mart's business plan that allows it to operate with such low prices is that it offers a limited inventory of merchandise - and quite frankly much of that merchandise, even the name brand stuff - is of lower quality. I know people who are product line managers in other companies that sell to Wal*Mart. Large drug companies. They are downright scared of Wal*Mart. Wal*Mart basicly dictates to them what product count they will make, what it will look like, what the shelf facing will be, what the case count will be etc etc etc. They comply because they are scared of how much share they will loose if Wal*Mart uses a competitor instead. Wal*Mart is a 900 lb gorilla and acts as such.

Me, I don't shop there much, mainly because I like to buy better quality items. The times I do go there are in rural areas where it's either hit Wal*Mart for everything I need, or drive 50 miles to 5 different place. However sometimes I do make the 50 mile runs because I get sick of pre-pack meat and low quality stuff.

-dave

 

[slappy magoo]

Im sorry that I took offense to the wording you used. I dont care for the fact that you said the posters daughter could be a "rare specimen". To me, those words sound demeaning.

Also, u say single breadwinner of a family of FOUR must make atleast $10.20.... I made above that amount within 3 months of working at walmart, and I was a single mother of ONE. People who work at walmart are not living in poverty. Maybe a small percentage, but that is not due to Walmart, that is probably due to debt they are in, and cirumstances that do not have to do with Walmart.

Now back to he original topic

Walmart Sells Mickey Mouse Imitaion Crocs!
have a magical day!

Does the unmitigated gall come from you mother's side of the family, or your dad's?

You give me cyber lip over a PERCEIVED slight - I point out that a lot of Walmart employees live below the poverty line, you assume I'm saying ALL WalMart employees are uneducated bumpkins. To your credit, you apologize, but then what to you do? You say the reasons anyone who IS working for WalMart and living below the poverty line are AND I QUOTE "probably due to debt they are in, and cirumstances that do not have to do with Walmart."

First of all, if you don't like people lumping in you into generalized groups, don't lump other people into generalized groups (to which I could add "the way you lumped me in to people who think Walmart employees are uneducated bumpkins").

Second of all, you don't seem to understand what the phrase "poverty line" means. It has little to do with people who live beyond their means, like people who have thousands in credit card debt taking vacations to Disney World. The "poverty line" is an average that's considered a bare bones-minimum and individual or family household needs to generate in income to techincally not be impoverished. It's based on a lot of averages, average rent, average cost of groceries, average cost of utilities, etc. It's not meant to factor in luxuries or credit card debt. It's the absolute minimum needed to not "technically" be considered poor. And a lot of WalMart employees are, technically, living below the threshold of what's considered impoverished. If you're not, congrats, I'm thrilled. And if you make a living wage AND benefits while at WalMart, only a tragic ability to injure myself at every conceivable opportunity prevents me from doing cartwheels. If you're doing all of that AND able to sock money away, so you're not one or two missed paychecks or one unforeseen emergency away from poverty, then I'll meet you on the corner of Hooplah and Huzzah and buy you a drink (no, eff that, you're making that kind of scratch, YOU'RE buying ).

But don't be naive to think that all Walmart employees are making out like you are. Even amongst the percentage who is technically making a livable wage, it doesn't take much for even reasonable rational people to get in trouble. A 2-income family can become a one-income household in an instant in this economy (any economy, really), and what was an affordable, not-very-extravagant lifestyle can become a crippling mound of debt pretty fast. A medical expense your insurance decides is not covered, insufficient disability, even things like hot water heaters needing to be replaced or a car dying (when you live in an area with insufficient public transportation) can send moderately-living families around the bend to Poorsville pretty fast. WM's history of screwing over employees is not exactly secret, as is their history of pretending to be environmentally conscious then dumping efforts to "go green" when people no longer pay attention (the corporate equivalent of slandering someone on Page 1 of the newspaper and issuing a correction 3 weeks later on page D12).

One thing you got going for you - the way the economy is rolling, lots more people shopping at WM. More out of choice than necessity.

 

[accord99cutie]

Does the unmitigated gall come from you mother's side of the family, or your dad's?

You give me cyber lip over a PERCEIVED slight - I point out that a lot of Walmart employees live below the poverty line, you assume I'm saying ALL WalMart employees are uneducated bumpkins


I NEVER said ANYTHING about education except that some people work there while attending school... and Id love to see these resources that show the percentages you speak of.

First of all, if you don't like people lumping in you into generalized groups, don't lump other people into generalized groups (to which I could add "the way you lumped me in to people who think Walmart employees are uneducated bumpkins").

I made a comment in reference to you making a post stating something I do not agree with. I did indeed lump you into a group, mostly because what you stated put you there, not my doing, your writing...

And a lot of WalMart employees are, technically, living below the threshold of what's considered impoverished.

Alot... what percentage is "alot" and again, let me see the numbers...




But don't be naive to think that all Walmart employees are making out like you are. Even amongst the percentage who is technically making a livable wage, it doesn't take much for even reasonable rational people to get in trouble. A 2-income family can become a one-income household in an instant in this economy (any economy, really), and what was an affordable, not-very-extravagant lifestyle can become a crippling mound of debt pretty fast. A medical expense your insurance decides is not covered, insufficient disability, even things like hot water heaters needing to be replaced or a car dying (when you live in an area with insufficient public transportation) can send moderately-living families around the bend to Poorsville pretty fast.

This makes the great point that it can happen to anybody, does not matter if you work at Walmart or a job where you make 6 figures. Luckily for me, Walmart does not look like it is going under anytime in the near future.


WM's history of screwing over employees is not exactly secret, as is their history of pretending to be environmentally conscious then dumping efforts to "go green" when people no longer pay attention (the corporate equivalent of slandering someone on Page 1 of the newspaper and issuing a correction 3 weeks later on page D12).

What does "going green" have to do with anything we have been talking about? You just feel the need to put anything negative about Walmart that you can think of in these posts? And so what if they are just changing over now?? it's better than never IMO.

One thing you got going for you - the way the economy is rolling, lots more people shopping at WM. More out of choice than necessity.

Im assuming you meant to say more out of necessity than choice.... Either way, it's great for bonus!

I cant back up any of my info with numbers. All I can go by is who I know at my store, and a few around me. Up here, Walmart is not this horrible place you speak of. Im sure it is gonna be greatly different in NH than in Georgia for instance. Just like in my town, the employees I work with are much different from the employees in the bigger cities. I dont feel like "cyber arguing" about this anymore. It's your opinion versus mine, and Im pretty sure neither will change.

 

[golittleperson]

They have a "disney" themed item but I don't believe it is the "crocs" brand. I'm a big believer that in this case the name brand was worth
the wear! I wonder if the markets in Disney will now carry their brand
or like last year the "crocs" logo shoes. Ugly but feel so good on my feet.