Seven Reasons Wal-Mart Sucks
1) Wal-Mart has run thousands of small-businesses OUT of business. The process is frighteningly effective. Wal-Mart seeks out medium sized towns and builds a store. They’re able to charge lower prices than the family run shops in the area, who inevitably close up their business. Often they end up working at Wal-Mart, which leads us to point number two:
2) Wal-Mart treats employees notoriously badly. They normally start out paying minimum wage and keep employees there for as long as possible. Generally people don’t work at Wal-Mart if they have other options, and Wal-Mart knows this. They can pay next to nothing and still keep their employees.
3) Their products are generally cheap and are always devoid of any sacramental value. Yes, they sell inexpensive hardware. But that hardware was produced in China by virtual slave-laborers. Wal-Mart products enrich nobody but Wal-Mart, as opposed to somewhat pricier products made in the USA or other countries with reasonably compensated laborers. Shopping elsewhere may cost you more. But wherever you shop, you’re supporting the system that brought the goods to the store. Do you want to support Wal-Mart’s system of exploitation? More on that next.
4) Wal-Mart exploits cheap international labor. According to this, workers in Bangladesh make as little as nine cents an hour producing goods for Wal-Mart. Why would they pay more? Than they’d have to charge more, which would mean they couldn’t undercut local businesses anymore!
5) Their customer service is a nightmare. God help you if you ever have to return something (which is likely)! You’ll wait hours because they generally have ONE working customer service agent despite having 15-20 cashiers checking people out. And don’t bother trying to find help over the internet or by phone! I once received a $50 Visa gift card purchased through Wal-Mart. For some reason it didn’t work– and it took literally three months of constant complaining and following up before it was replaced.
6) They have no regard for the environment, despite their ad campaign to the contrary. This article details some of their common abuses, including their pollution of local water supplies. Most of the crap they sell ends up in a landfill sooner or later, where it takes up space forever because Wal-Mart does not believe in biodegradable products!
7) The stores are ugly. The employees have bad attitudes– but who can blame them? There is nothing pleasurable about the shopping experience, other than the price. But remember what those cheap products represent. You pay that great price because Wal-Mart pays its employees as little as it possibly can. That great price is made possible by sweatshop labor overseas. That price is made possible because they don’t concern themselves with environmentally safe materials.
When you shop at Wal-Mart, you save money and you may save time– but you’re giving up your soul in exchange. Fuck Wal-Mart. Buy local.
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Walmart is such a pice of shit
walmart SUCKS !!!!!!!!!……NO to wallyworld !!!!!!!!
Since Thanksgiving every one was supposed to get a bonus for working Thanksgiving & Black Friday. Guess what, there is isn’t a bonus and wasn’t going to be if you are dumb enough to believe some one looking you in the eye an giving you a load of horse-shit. Then they started sounding like a tree full of pariots”don’t go over, don’t go over”! You will be counciled & wrote up for going over, like it wasn’t bad enough as is, people would start a job and leave it half done and blurt out I have to punch out. Four of the best workers were let go in August since they were getting our shift done on time
now they won’t schedule more than 5 hrs for two people to do the same job, and if
I ever see a corp manager when they do an inspection, some one needs to tell them to come in at midnite and look at the same thing they tell them not to
do because they will cut corners & hours to do it, till someone get hurt or serously injured. What does it take to become a pompus , self -righous ego-
maniac with a attitude that turns into a rat -fink, make them a manager.
My local Walmart in Lafayette, IN has a serious infestation of mice. You can actually see the messes if you look closely. I have heard the way the management talks to employees and it is laced with four letter words. No wonder they can’t keep any help. That is NO way to manage a store. All of the managers need to be retrained in employee relations and customer service. You also need to be paying people better than minimum wage! Wonder what Sam Walton would say about all of this??
This site is ridiculous.
Fred, are you really that ignorant? Now your dumb ass probally has to look up ignorant in the dickshunarie (sp). Your probally a mngr anyway.
I did not post the above comment about being gay. I am not. Obviously some Walmart hack trying to trash me for telling the truth, unless there is another poster with the same initials.
My store is down $100,000 in sales and they are blaming the employees for it. We are down in employees and hours and cannot get all the work done. They started cutting hours again in November while refusing to hire help for the holidays, despite getting in excessive amounts of freight. And desite telling us sales were up for the entire year up to that point.
They keep deleting items that sell extremely well and bring in crap that will not sell. Customers are going elsewhere to get what they want. Management’s solution to increase sales is to cut hours even more, and to start the layoff and firing of 30 workers. Another problem is they are replacing the cash registers with self sevice registers so they can eliminate the cashier positions. We have lost considerable business over this as the customers feel they should not have to do the work themselves, especially at the prices we charge. We lost considerable business on Black Friday because the entire grocery area was roped off for 9 hours to prevent customers from grocery shopping. Management said if they can’t get groceries they will go buy items from another department. That did not happen, the customers left and went to other stores to get what they wanted. I have lost many of my regular customers who were shopping on 3rd shift. When they found out the items they wanted were no longer being sold, plus having to do their own checkout, they would be taking their business somewhere that provides the customer service they expect. Customer service is really what they pay for, but Walmart has been methodically removing that.
The cart retreivers are not bringing in the carts now because they have been unloading the trucks. So 3rd shift is spending as long as one hour each night doing that. The janitors are putting out freight instead of cleaning the store. The restrooms are in terrible condition and half of the water faucets are not working. We had one toilet down for over a month before they bothered to have it repaired. This Christmas we did not have a Christmas tree at the entrance. But we had Christmas decorations on the shelves the last week in September. Another store, just 12 miles from mine, is going to be closed, according to our store manager.
I am now under 12 managers, and they cannot get it together on what should be done as they all have conflicting instructions so I get caught in the middle.
I shop at a small market near my home where I can get many items for half of what Walmart charges. The items they have which are more expensive I go to the dollar stores for. Apparently Walmart is trying to put itself out of business.
Well i work at Walmart, since october 2nd, i am full time by now. As i am a hard worker. I always get my freight done in the designated hours.
Now the problem is were 20(!) associates short, we get insane task hours to work with.
The problem is as far as i can tell, there “managers” that are not being, tapped on the wrist for there own lack of work ethic and/or common sense.
There 3 shifts, i am in the night shift. The keep blaming each other, in the end it is the stocker that pulls the short straw. As we get blamed for things we do not even do, with the outcome a “coach” on your name.
I have 0 coaching on my name. But i seen many getting coached for the most dumbest crap ever!
“you walk to slow”
“You walked over a pallet”
“You called out 2 times in a row” While the proven to be SICK at WORK the day prior.
It is a joke really, to me it’s like modern aged slavery. And i cannot wait, to get out of there and i will in due time.
When that happens i will NEVER ever work for a Walmart again..
I love Walmart.
WALMART IS THE WORST they treat their employees like shit all they want us money all to themselves FUCK WALMART wish it never came to America
I am a merchandise supervisor at Wal-Mart and I can terll you first hand that these statements are correct. My department makes over $8000/day in sales and I am only allowed to have one associate on first shift. This does me no good as I have freight that is going out all day and there are always things needing to be zoned or filled. I have been accosted for the past month because we had a bad inventory and they have been systematically writing up all supervisors and managers in the store because of this. The IMS (backroom people) are always let off the hook because they are short handed, and yet if I dont go into the backroom and do their job for them I am held liable. This is not the right way to do business, everyone has tasks they are assigned in the store and if they don’t can’t or won’t do them they need to be reprimanded. They do not need to reprimand the ones who are trying to make a differance and bust their asses day in and day out.
For all the people who say “well just work or shop somehwere else”. The solution isnt just that easy. the problem? 100million people a week visit walmart and theres only 300million of us in this country. So besides employing 2million people they deliver most of the product to americas homes. But since there products are all from china NONE of the money spent stays in the u.s. it actually steals from it so when the economic experst say spending shows growth in the economy in walmarts case it doesent. Since walmart makes the majority of products now consumed in american homes you cant say well at least all those sales are helping the economy because there not. The only way they could help the economy is there workforce of 2 million spending money, but because most dont make a livable wage and there money gets scammed by the 10% deal back intot he store they literally only hurt america in every sense and form of there existence. Once a company has grown to a certain size, not just large but so large that it actually can control a significant portion of americas current economic state and economic future, we need to introduce new legislation that forces them to pay higher wages since they affect the country so much. You may say well this isnt the american way we beleive in free enterprise and all which is true but when a company has gotten this big, dominating the common mans life and affecting your life even if you DONT work or shop there something has to be done. I say a government forced breakup on the grounds of monopoly or on economic crisis the same way we did Microsoft and Microsoft wasn’t paying anyone unfairly and we did it to them. In the mean time heres some things you can do that are perfectly legal and will help stop this monster. #1 the old ice cream technique, load up a cart with ice cream or other goods that will go bad quickly and make your way to the outdoor garden center and try and leave it somewhere it wont get found for a while so it all melts or goes bad and becomes a total loss. organize small teams and do this repeatedly on a rotation. Also buy electronics and brake them or remove important items and return them. do it quickly afetr buying and you will always get your money back and they will take a loss on it and dont worry the minimum wage customer service are not trained to know whats all comes in the box i do this and i work there trust me they are that dumb. Also complain and throw a fit and say you want a gift card or your calling “home office” even the store manager is deathly afraid of a home office reprimand and they will give the gift cards, this is also a way to hit them for a completely LEGAL loss. Another classic is if you need oil buy the 5quart of the best mobile1 expensive oil you like, use it for your car, then pour the used oil back into the bottle and return it, trust me they do not check and if you are caught you say “thats how it was when i bought it thats why im returning it, im calling home office on this store” Also a LEGAL way to cause them a loss they cannot prosecute you for. many homeless also congregate behind and near walmarts for the high people traffic, organizing them and giving them some money to go and take carts and push them into nearby woods is always a fun way to get them. There are many more ways to get them for LEGAL losses like “accidentally” dropping glass with liquid in it near whatever registers that are open then getting mad call the store ridiculous and walk out of the store, this will cause a loss in 3 ways, 1 the item you dropped is a loss, 2 your causing them to spend extra already thin resources to re-stock the cart full of items you left as well as a loss on the items if they end up going bad, and #3 you will most likey cause a chain reaction because the spill will stop up the only open register and seeing your act several imitators will walk out as well compounding and multiplying the problem as well as losing sales. If teams would do these “undercover” LEGAL attacks coupled simultaneously with conventional outdoor protests and there organized at holiday peaks sales hours this can really stop them in there tracks, overwhelm them and force them to re-consider there positions. Thank you and remember every little loss counts but finding anti walmart people in your arae and carrying organized losses as i explained will have the best affect. Youll be helping the community your country as well as having a fun new hobby. We cannot just cave into this monster you must understand even if you dont shop or work there this place AFFECTS YOU NO MATTER WHAT BECAUSE IT AFFECTS THE VERY ECONOMY OF THE COUNTRY. There are 6 members of the walton family that have as much wealth as the entire lowest 30% of humans living in america!! We must win start your local group or join an active anti walmart organization today and lets win our country back. Fuck sam walton the chinese products started during the 60′s the myth of his greatness is just that a myth and when walmart finally fails we will pee on his grave.
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Walmart is horrible, as I read comments from this site and others. These problems are world wide. We as associates need to come together and put a stop to the abuse of these tweaked tasks. Major freight with few hours to work with no man power. Bonus are never what they close out as. At my store people are actually dying. Strokes, heart attacks, etc, etc. Employees at work sick, told that they can afford for them to call in sick sue to short man power. Managers talk and treat associates like the scum of the earth. They allow associates to be harrassed at my store. I need income. I pray daily for a blessing so u can’t walk as far,away from Walmart. I won’t even shop at any Walmart stores.
Sorry for typos. Walmart really needs to be investigated. I was told that Mr Walton never ran his stores this way. Truly under paid and so over worked. Honestly , people are treated as slaves!!
Walmart is the worst place to shop, you stand in line at the register and wait and wait I can feel myself ageing as I stand there. You Take home food and its expired like a month before or you get milk and its bad in 2 da. ys. They treat their employees very badly and their customers even worse because they think we have no choice and most of the stores are filthy. most of the cashiers I feel sorry for they work hard and try to do their best and are treated very poorly. Walmart is a blite on this country . Down with Walmart.
in my store all managers and some other employees are morons they all want to blame each other but don’t know how to do their own job lol
The way to get even with Wally is to ad match EVERYTHING so they take a loss,then take your profitable business elsewhere!
I was fired recently from my job at Walmart. First I was called in the office over my attendance.I was told I had three written occurences. I only had two though, one had fallen off over a year before. They were still counting it against me!! Well I wouldn’t sign off on their coaching and I clocked out and went to lunch. I have been with Walmart for over three years and I have seen a lot of really messed up things. When I clocked back in from my lunch. I was confronted by my Assistant Manager and was told to come to the backroom. She told me to clock out because I was being suspended because of an “incident”. I wads in shock, I asked what incident? She says I can’t tell you HR or management will call you in the morning. Well no one ever called me. I worked on overnights and had been up all night. I finally got in my car and went to the store and asked to speak with the store manager. I still couldn’t get a straight answer about my attendance or the susposed “incident”. WTF? Right? Well then I am finally clued in on what I was being accused of, I fully denied it, because it NEVER HAPPENED!! I was accused of threatening to burn down the store and everyone in it! I was treated as if I was a criminal! For goodness sake, I am a single forty-something year old Mother! I was told to write a statement agreeing to it and sign it. I refused so I was fired. I will never go in that store again!! There is NO way I am giving those idiots my money!
I worked there for 4 years, I got sick with a family genetic diease affecting my bowels, I am on the young side through. I am confident I will get my life together and find another job eventually. All Christmas and early winter was bad enough, I had more than enough hours to go to all the appointments I needed. Then managment cut my hours, it was getting to the point I was angry, upset, and crying every day and going to the bathroom 15 times a day. But no one was kind enough to agree with me about going to see a doctor or tell me that I should get rid of bath soaps with purfume, color, or liquid kinds since those can cause infections in your body or that I might be allergic. Soon after I quit.
Anyways,after all of that they messed with me by pulling pranks in the bakery in which I worked, got an even meanier supervisor than the woman who had been my previous supervisor. I’m a Christian so I forgave her and the other employees there.That place reeks of bad attitudes, we try to go to Wal-Mart as little as possible; but that isn’t the worse part. Then since I have 2 ex boyfriends/BFF Friends in the music business they lied to them and made them hate me, and then signed contracts for me without my consent at the store in the manager’s office which I found out through gossip, etc.through a woman that has been antognizing me since I was at least 7; later and got me banned from the arenas downtown, I didn’t send anyone any threats.
It was there new girlfriends or fans that lived from the wealthier side of town, that have already hated in high school or hated the fact that I ran my own blog on them and for fun for years. I took down the blog, etc. but it’s not fair, I shouldn’t have to go out of state to discuss things with them and even through my ex boyfriends are celebrities, it doesn’t make it right for them to lie to the arena committee here or for Wal-Mart to support them over an employee ever, under the legal laws they shouldn’t. But then again this state’s goverment is as corrupt as California, it’s no wonder my family and I are considering moving south.