Walmart wages

I'm posting this only in the interest or reality. Just for my own edification, I went on line to Glassdoor and looked up some wages for some big California Retailers. Walmart, Kmart and Target. (that's what we have in my area) Then I threw in Winn Dixie cause it's the only one in the South that I'm familiar with. Granted, this isn't a tight survey to say the least. But one can draw conclusions from it. I did it because of all the heat Walmart gets from a certain ideological group regarding how Walmart is such a monster. I'm not going to post the results, Folks can look fo dey own self. Just Google 'name of company wages'
But here's sorta what I gleaned from it. Generally speaking for any run of the mill 'low/no' skill needed positions pay pretty much the same at Walmart, Kmart, Winn Dixie and Target. Once you get up to middle management the wages begin to vary more.
So I have to ask...wazzup with all the hatred for Walmart?

 

Personally I don't hate them, but think they should be forced back in line. For I have always detested me being taxed, with quite a bit of that going to subsidize wages to corporations like walmart. For their workers have to earn enough to survive on. Walmart workers don't make enough to do that. So we get taxed to take up the slack.. Walmart welfare. Welfare to a company with billions. Seems a bit too obscene to me.

We need to get rid of the min. wage and institute a living wage, with an adjustment for inflation built into it, adjusted each year. If owners have to settle for a 5 million dollar home instead of a 100 million dollar home, tough do do.

I will rent a violin player to play a sorrowful sad tune for them.

 

its because they wont join the union..seiu wants the monthly dues...its money for the unions..i have a friend that works for walmart and she just got a raise to 19.00 an hour..she is only 25 and and has just an a.a. degree..but she loves working there and would never leave....she has been working there about three years now

 

now you have witnessed the lies and deception that the left is doing...too bad more people dont see the truth

 

i see the lefties are ignoring this post hoping no one pays attention to the truth...

 

A. They're successful.
B. They haven't knuckled under to organize crime in the form of unions.
C. They give people jobs and a way to move up in the world.

Those are all things that liberals hate.

Of course, the government needs to be forced back in line.

 

cjm basically hit it on the head.

Walmart is anti-union so the left have to hate them. I got a part-time job there and started at 10.00 an hour stocking shelves, so they are actually paying more than places like Target who I also worked for at 8.00 an hour doing the same job.

 

I know people who work in Target and Walmart.

While neither pays much better than the other, punitive involvement by management seems prevalent in Walmart.

However, people need to move up a themselves and patronise better to places like Costco, In'In'Out burger, and decent smaller employers whenever possible. Places like In'In'Out burger pay $10.50 as a minimum, have REAL health insurance and other benefits, and yet are not expensive.

People need to pay attention how they make their world live better.

 

You're being taxed for the dead beats that won't work anywhere.

Walmart makes poor peoples money go further.

What's obscene to me is people beitchin about what they make when it's all up to them.

Liberals are always making excesses for deadbeats and such.

The Free Market is the only thing that works in the real world.

Whenever the government tinkers with business, something gets screwed up worse.

 

The entertainment value of shopping at Wal-Mart is priceless at times. There are times you have to go out to the parking lot to see if the Circus is in town. Honest to God, some body types and spandex just don't work. Old Jimmy Dean realized early on that there is only so much sausage one can stuff in a casing....

 

Costco pays their employees well and provides good benefits, and they compete against Walmart quite well.

 

In the beginning, it was "Walmart destroys small businesses everywhere it goes" and consumers were "Screw that. If I can get stuff I normally buy cheaper and get even more stuff than those businesses carry, I'm sticking with Wally World"

Then it was "Walmart destroys American jobs by importing Chinese crap" and consumers were "screw that. If I can buy a shirt from Asia at Walmart for $5 that would cost me $12 at another store and is still made in Asia, then I am going for the $5 shirt"

Now it is "Walmart doesn't pay a living wage and its owners are billionaires" and consumers are "Screw that. I make crap wages too and cannot afford Target."

The long and short of it is that the democrats will always hate Walmart because the 1% that funds the DNC does not like that Walmart puts downward price (and therefore profit) pressures on all retailers which puts downward wholesale (and therefore profit) pressure on all its suppliers. Hollywood wants you paying $25 for a DVD instead of $16 and Heinz wants people to pay $2.50 for ketchup instead of $1.65 because they can pad their profits better without Walmart's massive presence and take it or leave it contracting prices with suppliers. It is a proxy war being fought by the wealthy and unions who cannot be padding their pockets as fluffy with Walmart driving the marketplace.

 

interesting response. But isn't it the 'liberal faction' that opposes the existence of Walmart? Have the wealthy somehow enlisted their arch enemies, the liberals, to fight their fight against Walmart?

 

Perhaps in some cases, though there are a lot of rich liberals as well. Make whatever assumptions you want. A relative works for a major US food processing conglomerate that produces multiple name brands. They despise Walmart. They lose money supplying Walmart because the slight profit they make on the production for the sale, they lose on the delivery. Walmart basically said you provide at these prices or your goods won't be on our shelves. the life blood of major brands is brand loyalty so it is a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation for them. The company then turns around and tries to blame the plant managers for lack of profitability and said managers increasingly look for ways to short change workers any way they can.

 

The big problem I have with WalMart is it slavery. They make a majority of their money off food stamps and government subsidies. They will not pay a living wage so the tax payers pick up the tab that goes back into their pockets. It like in the old days when companies paid workers with money that could only be used in the company store or pay for company housing

 

it has more to do with people's hatred of capitalism and jealousy that the Walton kids are still benefiting from dad's business. There's a face to hate.... they are the "spoiled rich kids" that was born with a silver spoon in their mouth and flaunt their money in your face. They are easy to sell as the bad guys....

but noone knows about Kmart founder's family, or then winn dixie family.


Walmart is the easiest target for liberals because
1. Walmart is a success and is still growing
2. Walmart employs 1000's and keeps them off the govt dole where they are more likely to vote democrat
3. Walmart has a face to hate


it's a liberal nightmare and wet-dream all rolled into one....

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define living wage beyond your subjective definintion....


and WM doesn't pay in foodstamps, they pay in money. I imagine they offer employee discounts to encourage their employees to shop for their private needs, but nothing wrong with that... 10$/hour employees need toilet paper too, may as well get it at Walmart vs the competition

 

One would think that the liberals would then be very supportive of Walmart and the Walmart model. Walmart has accomplished what liberals claim they want to accomplish; stand up to the corporations and put an end to excessive profit, in turn offering goods to the people at affordable prices. You'd think that liberals would be waving Walmart flags. And, while accomplishing that goal, Walmart still manages to pay a wage that is equal to other large retailers. Someone replied that it was about Walmart not being union. {That the liberal bastion of organized labor SEIU couldn't get a foothold on Walmart for some reason, or their hands on Walmart's employee's wallets} That's the real reason behind liberal hatred of the 'peoples store'. Do you think that's an accurate assessment? I do. Because everything else Walmart is accused of appears to be precisely what liberals outwardly claim they want all retailers to do.

 

The only reason is because Walmart is the largest so they are noticed more.

All combined...Kmart, Target, Shopko, 7-11, the local convenience store gas station etc...employ more low wage workers than Walmart. You just don't hear about them much because they are much smaller corporations.

 

I question why liberals don't target the companies that no longer hire entry level employees but have opted for staffing with 'internships', using the ruse; If you fit in, we may put you on payroll full time. Then may possibly actually hire a very small percent of them. You'd think that that would 'stir them to action' as opposed to a Walmart that actually employees people. (a lot of people)

 

Walmart has 1.5 millions employees in the U.S. alone...if they join the seiu union it would be a lot of money for the union because dues are around 65.00 a month or 1.85% of there wages...but the workers are smart enough not to join so the union is on a campaign to bad mouth the company...

 

In my area { central Kentucky } Winn-Dixie went under and Wal*Mart does a
great job at hiring those who probably would get passed over by other retailers
due to slovenly first impressions.A lot of Wal*Mart employees seem to have some
form of handicap.Not just poor overall appearance but also probably lacking
any formal education.However those type employees usually make great
dedicated workers.They are so happy to have the chance to work with a
big employer they almost knock themselves out making sure to do a good job.
I like that.I give very high grades for those who TRY. Those who hustle.
I can't stand employees who feel they don't have to put their best foot forward.
Like the job isn't really that big a deal.
I like that Wal*mart hires those who may lack pizazz {appearance,education } but
more than make up for it in dedication and giving their all.
That is why God put us here on earth.To test us as good neighbors.Good Samaritan.

 

Taxcutter says:
"Mom and Pop" retailers pay even less than wal-Mart, Winn-Dixie, Target, and K-Mart.

 

That I know is a factual statement.

 

I only know that when I walk into a Walmart, there's some person in their senior years saying hello and offering me a shopping cart. If I ask an employee where I can find a particular product, I'm either directed to the right place or they offer to show me. At the KMart up here where I live, I feel fortunate if I can even find an employee let alone get directions. My wife had a lay away at KMart. I went to pay on it one day. I went to the Lay Away Dept., no one was there. I waited a bit then went to Electronics to get help. When I finally located someone in Electronics they made an announcement that someone was needed in Lay Away. No one ever showed up. Also, at KMart, if an item is on sale, like 2 for 1 or whatever, the larger percentage of the time when you're checking out, the sale price is never in the computer. It seems like you can spend 15 minutes shopping followed by 1/2 hour checking out. Another trick KMart has is the 'fine print' trick. The post a tag by the product 'Buy 1 Get 1 Free', You grab 2 and head to the check out. They scan them and you're charged for 2. So you bring error to the cashiers attention and they say and they tell you that that offer is for a smaller size, not the size you purchased. The size info is printed in small type somewhere on the 2 for 1 sign. So unless you want to make a big fuss and have them go through the exercise of removing the 2 products from your bill (which for some reason always requires the assistance of a manager that seems to always be busy somewhere at the back of the store) you end up giving up and walking out with 2 of what you only needed 1 of.
This has never happened to me at Walmart.

 

After I retire... I want a greeter job at Walmart.... keep me active, but not such a high stress job I drive myself into the grave prematurely....