Interesting article on how Walmart operates.

Interesting read on how walmart operates.

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html

 

Insane.

 

huh? Cheap prices or people? I think most people know and just don't care. They are so used to the system and most believe there are no alternatives.

The shit will hit the fan, when most people are unemployed due to most corporations moving labour aboard for lowers costs and cheap as shit labour or cannot afford goods.

The corporations cannot conduct their exploitative labour in the West or as much as they would like to generate huge profits, so they take advantage of poverty ruined third world countries.


Corporations complain about Western workers because they are not willing to work harder and longer for less while they generate record profits through their labour.

 

Yet another reason I will steal magazines from them!!

 

We have both a retail, and shipping wharehouse where I live. I applied to work in their wharehouse, but during the third interview, they ask a question about turning in a fellow employee caught shoplifting and announcing it to the rest of the employees. I responded, that I thought employee issues were confidential and should be handled by the supervisor in private. This wasn't my first job, and I was basing my response on past employer policies, (one was a government agency). Needless to say I didn't get the job.

Their employee practices are outrageous, and they even have surveilance cameras in the employee bathrooms in the wharehouse, I assume they do in the retail store also. I haven't shopped their in eight years. I am supporting the local small businesses that managed to survive Walmart.

 

I am ambivalent about Wal-Mart. As the article points out, Wal-Mart has made many businesses more efficient by being very demanding to their suppliers regarding the cost-cutting needed to provide value to their customers. A retailer making you to slash prices is going to force you to reduce costs and inefficiencies to survive. Wal-Mart has been key in stemming inflation in the U.S.

I am skeptical of Wal-Mart because they do not pay their employees well and do not provide good career opportunities to neighborhoods, in general. They also exploit populations that are bordering starvation to provide value to overfed Americans.

There is that part of me that just thinks "fuck the system" and wants to jack everything out of their stores. But, as many suppliers concede, Wal-Mart benefits the economy overall in important ways by promoting efficiencies.

I don't think teenagers jacking things from Wal-Mart is so morally problematic, given the sheer greed of the company. And I certainly do not sympathize for mom and pop shops chased out of business because they can't compete because neighbors simply prefer things cheaper. My main problem seems to be with the mechanization and conformity of the modern consumer society, with Wal-Mart as a prime example.

 

wot are u on about? "conformity" has been created because so many are shopping at these kind of stores. why? because the "mom and pop" have been forced to close down. u were completely contradicting urself

 

Random thought, in the US do you still get the bum-slapping adverts for Walmart, or is that just our "treat"?