Failure Of Walmart Walkout Underscores Union Decline

[CCXdriver]

Let's say you work at Walmart and get a raise from $10/hr to $13/hr. Now, that gallon of milk you bought last week for $3.50 jumped up to $5.00 a gallon (Walmart still needs a profit, so they raise the costs of goods to compensate the higher wages). You're back to square 1. What was the point in getting that raise in the first place?

Not really. If Walmart raised the price of milk, people would go to Costco for it(who manage to treat their people decently and make a profit).

[sharpshooter]

Not really. If Walmart raised the price of milk, people would go to Costco for it(who manage to treat their people decently and make a pofit).

People that shop at Walmart for milk aren't going to shell out a membership fee to buy it at Costco..lol.

[AzPilot]

Profit is evil.
Walmart should just absorb those cost lets see, give everyone a $3 an hour raise times 2,000,000 employees so that is $6M an hour a $144million a day, good, broke within a year.
Then all those mom and pop retailers that Walmart put out of business can move into those big box stores (and become the next Walmart)

Further proves the point that the left does not think, everything is emotion.

California taxpayers are spending $86 million a year providing healthcare and other public assistance to the state’s 44,000 Wal-Mart employees, according to a new study by UC Berkeley’s Institute for Industrial Relations

Wal-Mart workers cost taxpayers $2,100 per year on average.



The study, "Hidden Cost of Wal-Mart Jobs," found that the average Wal-Mart worker required $730 in taxpayer-funded healthcare and $1,222 in other forms of assistance, such as food stamps and subsidized housing, to get by.

Even compared to other retailers, Wal-Mart imposes an especially large burden on taxpayers. Wal-Mart workers earn 31 percent less than the average for workers at large retail companies (more than 1,000 employees), the study found, and require 39 percent more in public assistance.

And the bone of the year award goes to walmart for their response.

Wal-Mart dismissed the study’s findings, arguing that many of its 44,000 California workers would otherwise be unemployed, placing an even greater burden on government welfare programs.

So what Walmart is saying is instead of the taxpayer subsidizing walmart, it is walmart helping to subsidize the entitlement programs, bravo walmart.

New Study Finds Wal-Mart’s Miserly Wages Cost Taxpayers | Institute for Local Self-Reliance

[AzPilot]

how is this Walmarts fault?
Did Walmart force HIC to add stuff to the polices that people may not want on the policies (ie mandates)
Did Walmart limit competition in the market place for HIC's?
Did Walmart allow frivoulous lawsuits?
Did Walmart force doctors to practice defensive medicine?

Yes, we are on our way to single payer, dont blame Walmart, blame govt they are the ones responsible,

Sorry ,but your argument doesn't hold water.

Face it Bubba you're just nitpicking here,other large employers provide health insurance it is just walmarts business model to cut labor costs to the bone to provide for a little lower costs to the consumer and a heavier burden to the tax payers.

[Woody]

Sorry ,but your argument doesn't hold water.

Face it Bubba you're just nitpicking here,other large employers provide health insurance it is just walmarts business model to cut labor costs to the bone to provide for a little lower costs to the consumer and a heavier burden to the tax payers.

Your plAne is out of fUel...

[AzPilot]

Your plAne is out of fUel...

Great response, but can you think any deeper then that and tell me why I'm wrong ?

[CCXdriver]

People that shop at Walmart for milk aren't going to shell out a membership fee to buy it at Costco..lol.

But they will pay $5.00 a gallon? I doubt it, no matter where they end up going, they won't pay extra just to shop at Walmart.

[Northern Flash]

Wal-Mart workers cost taxpayers $2,100 per year on average.

Ok. So let's say the study is correct, and each WalMart employee cost the tax payers $2100.00 per year. I still think that $2100.00 is much less than the what.......$18,000.00 that the typical couch potato cost the tax payers per year. Just sayin'.

[Woody]

Great response, but can you think any deeper then that and tell me why I'm wrong ?

Your wrong on everything. ...I. give my Wife the deep stuff.
Not one question answered from Bubbas post.... fly high. Go Blue****

[sharpshooter]

But they will pay $5.00 a gallon? I doubt it, no matter where they end up going, they won't pay extra just to shop at Walmart.

I don't think anybody pays extra for anything at Walmart...it's the other way around, they go there so they don't
Look, anybody that works anywhere that hauls stuff for Walmart knows how Walmart is, they don't wait, you do...they don't pay alot to do business with but, every company trips over themselves to do business with them, why? Volume, I guess.
I don't know how a company does so well when everybody supposedly hates them