Wal-Mart suddenly closed 5 stores and laid off thousands of workers

[BlueStreak]

If Americas small business owners in the retail industry had the good commonsense we're told they have, they would support unions that attempt to organize big box retailers like Walmart. Instead, they encourage the very people that are trying to take over their market share. Morons.

Dave

[Wasillaguy]

Look at the bright side- now there are 5 communities ripe for a good liberal entrepreneur to come in and open a discount store and pay his people well, with good benefits. Don't have to worry about competing with Wally World.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Wasillaguy

Look at the bright side- now there are 5 communities ripe for a good liberal entrepreneur to come in and open a discount store and pay his people well, with good benefits. Don't have to worry about competing with Wally World.

Breaking out my hip waders...

[Ike Bana]

"Walmart is falling apart before our eyes."

http://www.fool.com/investing/genera...-our-eyes.aspx

Couldn't happen to a more deserving pack of worker exploiting, anti-union, small town decimating, local economy wrecking, pack of hyenas than the Walton family. So the scumbags move into an area, kill off the competition, crush employee wages into dust which diminishes resident purchasing power, and when it finally depletes whatever is left, it moves on, leaving not even a Walmart where people can buy a loaf of bread and a quart of milk. The Walton family was the model for the alien race of locusts in "Independence Day."

Of course the Walton kids and their progeny will be billionaires for the next 10 generations, so they don't care about their retail empire going down the tubes any more than they care about the quality of life of a bunch of cabbage munching peons.

[Wasillaguy]

Where is this place that one can not buy milk and bread? I will go to there, with milk and maybe some bread, and I will make a fortune!
(Please don't tell anyone else. It's possible another genius might come up with the same brilliant idea I have, and then I would have to compete with them, in the former land of no milk and bread)

[nailer]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

"Walmart is falling apart before our eyes."

http://www.fool.com/investing/genera...-our-eyes.aspx

Couldn't happen to a more deserving pack of worker exploiting, anti-union, small town decimating, local economy wrecking, pack of hyenas than the Walton family. So the scumbags move into an area, kill off the competition, crush employee wages into dust which diminishes resident purchasing power, and when it finally depletes whatever is left, it moves on, leaving not even a Walmart where people can buy a loaf of bread and a quart of milk. The Walton family was the model for the alien race of locusts in "Independence Day."

Of course the Walton kids and their progeny will be billionaires for the next 10 generations, so they don't care about their retail empire going down the tubes any more than they care about the quality of life of a bunch of cabbage munching peons.

I was talking with another retired old fart in the library the other day, and in conversation's flow I found out that in the last few years many areas have blocked WalMarts, including several Texas rural locales.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Wasillaguy

Look at the bright side- now there are 5 communities ripe for a good liberal entrepreneur to come in and open a discount store and pay his people well, with good benefits. Don't have to worry about competing with Wally World.

Originally Posted by Wasillaguy

Where is this place that one can not buy milk and bread? I will go to there, with milk and maybe some bread, and I will make a fortune!
(Please don't tell anyone else. It's possible another genius might come up with the same brilliant idea I have, and then I would have to compete with them, in the former land of no milk and bread)

Did you even read the link? These are so called temporary six month closures, ostensibly for plumbing repairs, i.e. retaliatory lockouts to silence employees agitating for a living wage.

edit - It looks like this one is going to the NLRB.

[Wasillaguy]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Did you even read the link? These are so called temporary six month closures, ostensibly for plumbing repairs, i.e. retaliatory lockouts to silence employees agitating for a living wage.

edit - It looks like this one is going to the NLRB.

Ike says these people have no place to buy milk and bread. In 6 months, they'll all have starved to death if I don't go open my store.
I don't care if Wally World comes back in 6 months, I'll make enough to retire by then.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Did you even read the link? These are so called temporary six month closures, ostensibly for plumbing repairs, i.e. retaliatory lockouts to silence employees agitating for a living wage.

But permits haven't been pulled in any of the municipalities where these stores are located and an inspector offering to expedite the repairs for one store was barred entry.

edit - It looks like this one is going to the NLRB.

As it damn well should. Walmart got their asses handed to them in Canada when they pulled this shit.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Wasillaguy

Ike says these people have no place to buy milk and bread. In 6 months, they'll all have starved to death if I don't go open my store.
I don't care if Wally World comes back in 6 months, I'll make enough to retire by then.

Walmart's history is one of cruising into a non-urban area, driving any competition out, employing formerly decently employed workers at whatever miserable wage the Republican red state legislature allows them to get away with. The purchasing power of the community is reduced, driving other retailers under, and causing further economic decline. And then when their joint is no longer profitable enough, or wages have crept up to a point where it might be livable...they move on.

The Walton family is scum...and has been scum since they opened the first Walmart in Rogers, Arkansas in 1962.