Good news...Wal-Mart's stock is down 13% this year.
Bad news...The average Wal-Mart employee makes less than $19,000 a year.
Bad news...Wal-Mart has 3,000 factories in China. The employees in these factories probably make 33 cents an hour. China passed a labor law, I think in 2002, that would establish a national minimum wage, but that hasn't been initiated yet.
Bad news...If any factory employees in China ask for a higher wage they are more often than not fired because the employer has a line of a million at the application door.
More bad news...My hometown of Longmont is not only going to have one super Wal-Mart soon, but two...wonderful. Now watch as the old school Wal-Mart building is abandoned. No one will buy it because it's just so stinking ugly and most likely, Wal-Mart hasn't kept it clean or as operable as it should be. Case in point, the Laramie Wal-Mart that was emptied when the supercenter opened here before I came to school. It's this ugly, dilapidated, rotting building on the edge of town as you drive in from the freeway. How about Wal-Mart takes one of their millions and bulldozes that crap down and build a park with a nice green field. The park would be close enough to the supercenter to launch flaming turds from a three-man balloon-launcher onto the roof of the new Wal-Mart.
Good news...you don't have to shop at Wal-Mart. Find local stores, or other chains that are significantly lower on the food chain than the giant that is rotting our country from the inside out and give them your money.
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Did you catch any of what that guy said?
I like this post. More bad news. Tax payers in the U.S. subsidize Wal-Mart $2000 for every employee in every store through federal anti-poverty programs. That wouldn't be too bad except that Wal-Mart is the nations largest private employer.
I think a better example of hypocritical bullshit is Forever 21 (yes, that really crappy store for women in the mall). That place is owned by a Christian who puts Bible verses on the bags. That's cool I guess. What's not cool is how Forever 21 was such a notorious user of sweatshop labor to make its garments that a three year long boycott ended recently after they decided it would be a good investment to stop doing that.
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