What is walmart like?
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I am a fan of WalMart.  There are two where I live.  Many people say they hate WalMart, but I sometimes see those people shopping there.\nOne WalMart has everything including groceries, the other doesn't sell groceries or have a auto shop, it just sells parts and oil and cleaning supplies for autos.\n\nIn the both stores they sell clothes for men, women and children.  They sell shoes. They sell fabric, yarn and craft supplies.  They sell toys, plants for indoors or garden & supplies.\nThey sell outdoor furniture and some indoor furnishings, like curtains, linens, shelves, lamps, electronics, etc.  They have pharmacies.\n\nThe people who work there are pleasant and personable.  WalMarts give money to local charities.  After the Katrina hurricane, they got clean water and food to people faster than the government, and re-opened and gave people jobs.\n\nIn the newspaper today there was an article on how WalMart is using waste oil for heat, has tried to use solar energy, is using wind power to make electricty to for their stores.\n\nI hope this is what you are looking for.\nLink to green schemes story:\nhttp://www.cantonrep.com/topFive.php?vote=5&Headline=Wal-Mart+%27Green%92+Trials+and+%28Some%29+Errors&ID=319217&Category=5
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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Wal-Mart) operates retail stores in various formats worldwide. The Company organizes its business into three principal segments: Wal-Mart Stores, SAM'S CLUB and International. The Wal-Mart Stores segment is the largest segment of Wal-Mart's business, accounting for 67.3% sales during the fiscal year ended January 31, 2005 (fiscal 2005). The segment consists of three different retail formats, all of which operate in the United States. The Company's SAM'S CLUB segment consists of membership warehouse clubs that operate in the United States, and accounts for 13% of fiscal 2005 sales. The international segment consists of retail operations in eight countries and Puerto Rico, and generated 19.7% of Wal-Mart's fiscal 2005 sales. In addition, the Company owns an unconsolidated minority interest of approximately 37% of The Seiyu, Ltd., a retailer in Japan. \n\nBRIEF: For the fiscal year ended 31 January 2006, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.'s revenues increased 10% to $315.65B. Net income increased 9% to $11.23B. Revenues reflect higher sales from wal-mart stores and increased sales from international business divisions. Net income was partially offset by increased operating expenses. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. operates supercenters, neighborhood markets and SAM'S club locations in the United States. \n\n1962: First Wal-Mart store opens in Rogers, Arkansas \n1969: The company incorporates as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. on October 31, 1969. \n1972: Wal-Mart listed on the New York Stock Exchange. \n1983: First Sam's Club opens in Midwest City, Oklahoma. \n1987: Wal-Mart completes largest private satellite communication system in the U.S. \n1988: First Supercenter opens in Washington, Missouri. \n1990: Wal-Mart becomes nation's largest retailer. \n1991: The first store outside of the U.S. opens, in Mexico City. \n1994: Wal-Mart acquires 122 Woolco stores in Canada. \n1996: Wal-Mart enters China through a joint-venture agreement. \n1997: Wal-Mart replaces Woolworth on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Woolworth's Square One Shopping Centre location in Canada becomes the largest Wal-Mart store in the world, at 220,000 square feet (20,000 m²). \n1997: Wal-Mart becomes largest private employer in the United States, with 680,000 employees worldwide. \n1997: Wal-Mart has its first $100 billion sales year. \n1998: First Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market opens \n1999: Wal-Mart has 1,140,000 employees, making it the largest private employer in the world. It acquires the ASDA Group with 229 stores in the United Kingdom. \n2003: Wal-Mart sets a single-day sales record of $1.52 billion on Black Friday. \n2004: Wal-Mart buys the Amigo supermarket chain in Puerto Rico for $17 million. \n2004: Wal-Mart employees in Jonquière, Quebec, Canada vote in favor of becoming the first unionized Wal-Mart in North America. Five months later, Wal-Mart announces that it would close the store, citing poor sales. \n2005: Wal-Mart seeks to expand to urban markets, most notably New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles. \n2006: Wal-Mart is built in the town of Napanee, Ontario after years of discussion. \n2006: Wal-Mart required to sell the morning after pill in Massachusetts stores. [1] \n\nBusiness\n \nExterior of a typical Wal-Mart Supercenter, located in Madison Heights, Virginia. \nExterior of a typical Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market, located in Center Point, Alabama.Wal-Mart operates discount retail department stores selling a broad range of non-grocery products, though emphasis is now focused on the "Supercenters" which offer a full line of grocery items. Wal-Mart also operates Sam's Club—a "warehouse club" (similar to Costco and BJ's) that sells discounted bulk merchandise to due-paying members.\n\nAs of January 2005, Wal-Mart employed 1.3 million people in the United States. Wal-Mart's corporate headquarters are located in Bentonville, Arkansas. Apart from retail locations, it operates 99 Dis
25601
I personally respect Lowe's more; Wal-Mart is the largest company in the world and so could have a less than personal attitude towards their employees.
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Walmart is truly an equal opportunity employer.  They hire all faiths, colors, cultures, the handicapped, the aged.\n\nMany other "equal opportunity employers" pick and choose who is equal in their own minds.
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walmart finds the cheapest products from anybody but american workers and finds the dirtiest lowest paid child workers to make thier products !!!\nthey are the worst company in the world yet everybody shops there!!!
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http://hebgrocery.com/aboutHEB/careers.jsp\n\nnothing specific...sorry.  I'm in SA so I actually know what ur talking about.  All I do know, however, is that HEB employees stay there much longer than WalMart employees. lol
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Yes, becaue Wal-Mart is the devil. They mistreat their employees. Because of this the employees are rude to customers. Plus WM takes away from small businesses. I never go there no matter how good their prices. I like to maintain my quality of life and fighting my way through aisles of welfare families isn't my idea of a good time.
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none to start with.You have to be there a year before you get any.You will get a discount card which will get you 10%off of your purchases at Walmart.I've been with Walmart for 12 years ,was 60 when I started and I'm not living at the poverty line.We do not pay that much for our insurance ,the company pays more then we do.
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Yes. You can get anything you want at walmart. They have everything.
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It is better than Walmart.
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I don't work at Walmart but I live in Bentonville which is the city that Walmart originated and its headquarters are!
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at your local walmart.
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I "avoid" Wal-Mart because I don't like their business practices.  I don't boycott it completely, simply because I can't (where I live).  But I did use to live in a larger city, and I never stepped foot in it there.
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Well, it's all relative.  If you've been picking beans for pennies a day your entire life, working for Walmart doesn't look so bad.  And most retail outlets will require employees to work at least one weekend day... so long as the store is actually open on the weekends.  \n\nI worked for Walmart for a while.  The pay sucked, I had to work crappy shifts and I didn't get many benefits or time-off.  But as a high-school kid with barely any work experience, I also had yet to do anything to deserve better.
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Go to Walmart.com.  But, do you really want to work for them.  They treat thier employees horribly.
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"Wal-Mart is a threat to your job, wages and benefits. It is a threat to working America 's standard of living. Wal-Mart employs more people than any company in America - with 1.4 million employees and profits of over $10 billion last year. Wal-Mart's low-wages and inadequate benefits drag down wages and conditions for all working Americans. Now, Wal-Mart has set its sights on the supermarket industry. With their new Neighborhood Markets, Wal-Mart is out to turn good jobs with good benefits into low-wage jobs with inadequate benefits. \n\nWAL-MART DESTROYS JOBS: Wal-Mart doesn't create jobs, it destroys them. Studies show that for every two jobs created by a Wal-Mart store, the community loses three. Local businesses are destroyed and community living standards get lowered when Wal-Mart moves into the neighborhood.\n\nWAL-MART LOWERS WAGES: Wal-Mart workers make an average of $3 per hour less than \nunion supermarket jobs, $2 per hour less than all supermarket jobs and $1 per hour less than the \naverage retail wage. An average Wal-Mart employee makes about $11,700 a year (working 30 \nhour weeks) -nearly $2,000 below the poverty line for a single mother with two children. Read \nthe Report Everyday Low Wages -The Hidden Price that We All Pay For Wal-Mart\n. \nWAL-MART'S HEALTH COVERAGE LEAVES MOST WORKERS UNCOVERED: Over \n425,000 Wal-Mart employees, most of them women, have no health coverage. Only 38% of \nWal-Mart employees - as compared with a national average of more than 60% - have company- \nprovided health coverage. An executive bragged that Wal-Mart is able to shift the cost of \ninsuring its employees to taxpayers - admitting that many Wal-Mart workers get their health care \nbenefits from state or federal government programs\n. A typical store with 200 employees would \ncost taxpayes $420,750 a year. \nWAL-MART WAGES WAR ON WOMEN WORKERS: Juries have awarded millions of \ndollars to Wal-Mart women workers who have filed harassment and discrimination claims \nagainst the retail giant. \nWAL-MART'S PHONY "BUY AMERICA " PROGRAM DISHONORS THE FLAG: Wal- \nMart's massive "Buy American" advertising program lures customers with the promise of selling \napparel products made by American workers. Less than 20 percent of all clothing sold in Wal- \nMart is labeled "Made in USA ."
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Been to Walmart lately?  The vast majority of their items are made there.  Bunch of junk if you ask me.  They buy for pennies and sell for dollars, not to mention that they routinely put american manufacturers out of business and switch to a foreign suppliers.  Great for Walmart, but at the expense of product quality loss of US jobs.  How do they expect us to buy their products if we don't have jobs to earn money to purchase those products?