Does any body knows why wal-mart is taking out the layaway department?
956779
By taking away layaway they are reducing costs. A drag for us but a cut back for Walmart.
842798
They should not be stopped from operating, but they should be unionized. So should Wally World.  \n\nYou go try working at Walmart or a sweat shop, and then you tell us what you think.\n\nJust go talk to some people at Walmart. Not a few, but get a good sampling.  I did.  And I came away with the impression that walmart not only treats its workers poorly,  but they intimidate and bribe them.  They divide and exploit them.
493883
i worked at walmart for almost a year. i was hired to helped them stock a new store to open it. some of us were hired to stay. i was hired as a sales assoc. to work electronics. no more than a week after they opened i was interviewed to be a CSM. I got the job. they treated me HORRIBLE. whatever the cashiers said they trusted. (by the way it wasn't only me being done this way) they had 1 csm to some shifts and wanted us to be in many places at the same time. HOW on earth can you be in sporting goods and on the front end at the same time? now GET this. I am with a customer a cashier needs me so they code their register to let me kow. I CANNOT just leave this customer. I got written up because I did not get to that cashier right away!! Go figure!! I have a 2 year old they wanted me to work over night on christmas!! Are they nuts? My app did not say I would work past MIDNIGHT!! They said they had to MANY complaints on me as a CSM so they wanted me to go to the garden center and take a pay cut! I QUIT!! I had one complaint the cashier!! Walmart SUCKS! I hardly shop there anymore due to the way they treated me while i was working!! They so DO need this UNION they all want you to report if you hear any talk about it!! You should visit walmartsucks.com
870269
Probably from years ago, when there were "blue laws", and many, or most businesses were closed.  Later, employees with labor unions wanted a confirmed day off, so it's likey that this is a covered issue in many union contracts.
178660
Kraft is one of those companies that sub-contracts their stuff out to distrabution centers so that they can get their products on the shelves.\n\nThere are alot of places that handle the products for them.
495017
All the stores I have worked at depending on the coupon itself has been thrown away if they are coupons that represent the store and if they were manufacturer coupons they were sent direcly to the manufacturer
1022089
Absolutely not.\n\nhttp://www.walmartmovie.com/\n\nYou want an explaination - go to that site and get a copy of that movie. You will never shop at Wal-Mart again.\n\nWal-Mart does not create jobs - it creates more cases of unemployement. It forces other businesses, especially locally owned businesses, to close because they cannot compete with Wal-Mart. Sure, they hire a bunch of people when a store opens, but because they are putting other businesses out of business the unemployement rate stays the same.\n\nAnd a local business cannot just lower their prices to compete with Wal-Mart. It's not that easy. Wal-Mart gets HUGE government funding to build their stores and keep their business running, but the little guy, the small business owner isn't allowed such luxuries.\n\nWal-Mart has also been very bad about hiring illegal immigrants - taking jobs away from American citizen living in communities. And whatever you've been told - not all Walmart products are made in the U.S.A. They pay a lot of Chinese workers next to nothing to produce goods for their stores.\n\nAnd did you know... there is an employee emergency relief fund that Wal-Mart has created for their employees and their employees have given MILLIONS of dollars to this fund, but the owners of Wal-Mart, the Waltons, who are billionaires, gave only $6,000 in one year.\n\nMost Wal-Mart employees are not well paid. Most of them can't even afford to enroll in the company's health insurance program. What does Wal-Mart tell them to do? They are refered to government funded programs. So the taxes you pay from your job help Wal-Mart employees get health care - it sounds noble and all, but it is money that could be spent on more important things like education, but since Wal-Mart doesn't want to give their employees affordable health care the American public pays for it instead.\n\nThese are just a few reasons.\n\nhttp://www.walmartmovie.com/\n\nWatch it.\n\nWal-Mart was NOT made by a black guy and why would that make it any better or worse?
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I really seriously doubt that Walmart ,THE BIGGEST RETAIL COMPANY IN THE WORLD, would ever do anything like that. All they care about is money, money, money and dropping the prices to what they were 20 years ago would cause them to lose precious money. Sure, some things cost a lot more then than they do now, but some things were cheaper then and dropping those things to the prices of 20 years ago would make them lose money. Think about it.
800257
WalMart had some the other day when I was there
306266
New unionization in USA is a thing of the past (and has been for a long time). Thank the rednecks who tend to shop at Wal Mart and the fascists who run the place. (They all voted unions into powerlessness) If you work at Wal-Mart, you don't understand the machinery that is crushing you. Also, think of their products and how their slave labor who make those products in asia are treated! Way worse than that. Do you remember how KMart managers were treated when Wal Mart was crushing Kmart? Inhuman, impossible jobs assigned to them. I would have quit and been treated better being homeless, even if I had kids, so do a job search for your hubby while he works. SERIOUSLY! You can facilitate his new career at some teenie tiny store and be much happier. Help him get a job, any job and be much happier. I had close friends get the life sucked out of them trying to stay on the sinking ship. WalMart is not sinking, but they will sink you!
478808
I thought they discontinued the employee discount.  Go to the GM website and see for sure.
206927
Yes.  See this article from biz.yahoo.com discussing their announcement in February - the headline and first sentence read as follows:\n\n"Radio Shack to close up to 700 stores\nFriday February 17, 6:08 pm ET\n\nRadioShack said Friday that its fourth-quarter profit had plunged 62 percent, and it's embarking on a turnaround plan that includes shuttering 400 to 700 company-operated stores."
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why in the world would you want to put it on layaway (especially for consumer electronics products). just save your money until you can purchase what you want outright. you're likely to find a better sale price too.
582262
I THINK THERE OUT OF BUSINESS
763744
Recently Sears was bought out by K-Mart.\nI hope that helps.
458054
couldnt tell after whaat happen in new orleans? wal mart did more than the fed. 'well, the fed put a few of em up in hotels'. yeh, with my money. gee thanx.
287848
Not sure about lawsuites but do believe that Walmart has contributed to the lack of quality products in our country today.  Their pressure on Manufacturers to lower pricing has helped to lower the costs of products available but has also lowered the quality of such products.  Cheaper, less effective, toxic ingredients are now found in many cleaning and personal care items on the shelves.  People's quest to get something for nothing has allowed them to "bully" big corporations into conforming to survive.\n\nI am not able to give you statistics... but do remember reading something in regards to Walmarts unlawful hiring and labor disputes.  I believe Target would be the better of the two... just not sure where the actual statistics are.\n\nGood luck with your debate... at least you are on the proper side of the issue.