Walmart Strikers Prepare For Black Friday Protests Across Country

I don't ever shop at wally world mainly because there's none close-by. However, even if there was one, I doubt I would shop there as I've been reading a lot about how they treat their employees, and it disguists me.

Personally, I hope the strikers succeed and hurt wally where it hurts the most by costing them significant market share.

For no particular reason I can relate to wally world does not turn my crank. So I seldom drop into their local store. Or perhaps it is because of their being one of the first to really exploit chinese merchandise. To me they created the mass model.

The busy store in town is the dollar store. Wallmart is talking about putting a simular section in their stores.

They are just too large an enterprise to treat their employees less than fair. Especially with the markups they manage on much of their merchandise no matter that people think it is cheap. Compared to wallmarts cost it is instead really expensive.

I am pretty certain that they really gouge on quite a lot of items. So the consumer is not really the true benificiary of their so called lower priced chinese merchandise... They are.

I buy direct from china from time to time so I have a pretty good guesstimate of what they might pay. Memory chips they sold for 19.95 years ago cost me .60 cents in singles at the time. Perhaps .45 each if I purchased half a dozen. So what was wallmart paying for them in the quantities they buy? In fact I have to thank wallmart for making me originally consider sourcing some things direct from China. Greed beyond belief because of the publics general non awareness of their costs? It has made wallmart very, very wealthy. The north american population needs a real education in the ways of the current world.

Walmart is the biggest private employer in the USA. If their workforce were unionized it would make a significant difference. Walmart has anti-union 'swat teams' which travel to locations which are thinking of unionization to stop it from happening.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

Ah, to live in a country where workers and employers have freedoms to peaceably express their positions. That is a good thing.

I hope Walmart workers figure out how to unionize. Wouldn't hurt the Waltons to much to give up a few bucks to help their disposable pawns out.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

That's what I don't get. They're freakin' gazillionares who want to keep control of their company. Wouldn't it make sense raise labor 20-30% to a livable wage rather than risk losing control when your pissed off, underpaid employees unionize? You already have a terrible reputation with how you get your product, why compound it by exploiting the labor?

Plus you'd attract a better quality of employee and give reason to stay.

Go to Sam's, Costco, Lowes, Home Depot, or get an In and Out burger where the pay is a little bit better and you see a completely different crop of workers.

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1985 500SL Euro w/ AMG bits 130k
1984 300SD Turbodiesel 192k
1980 240D Stick China 188k
2001 CLK55 AMG 101k
2007 S600 Biturbo 149k Overheated Project, IT'S ALIVE!!!

I hate that place and would never go there.

Who wants to buy cheap communist chinese trash and mingle with hordes of greedy cheapskate low life customers while you are doing it, just to save ten dollars?

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

i love how everyone on here trashes walmart, but shops at harbor freight. atleast walmart has brand name products.

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Chicago Pneumatic and Drillmaster sound like brands to me

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87 300D

you mean CENTERAL PNEUMATIC not to be confused with "cp " or chicago pneumatic. drill master is hardly something to call brand name.

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Beat me to it. Harbor Freight sells Central Pneumatic; a cheap ripoff mockery of Chicago Pneumatic.

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'99 E300 Turbodiesel, '82 300TD, 1996 12V Cummins Turbo, '94 Neoplan - Detroit 6V92TA

People are drowning here and you guys are describing the water.

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

I trash Walmart and I never go to harbor freight so what's there to love?

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1979 Black on Black, 300CD (sold), 1990 Black 300SE, Silver 1989 Volvo 780, 1988 300CE (vanished by the hands of a girlfriend), 1992 300CE (Rescue).

And the duck falls from the shell and you win $50 bucks.

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'91 300-SEL

I believe both place sell very large brushes, with which you can paint others more quickly...

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1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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