When I was in high school, I worked for Wal-Mart. Being an underage worker, covered by Child Labor laws, the Customer Service Managers (CSM's for the initiated) in the wal-mart where I worked made all of us stay after hours, off the clock, for an hour/ hour and half past the allowed time.
New employee orientation for Wal-mart is great. They spend all of this time brainwashing you to think that the customer is #1 and everything that they do is to benefit the customer.. But let's look at it another way..
- The average pay for a Wal-Mart employee is $20,000 annually. That's half the national average and 2/3 the regional average.
“Yes but wal-mart is great.. Think of the jobs they've provided in a down economy.”
- Okay, only if you think of the jobs they cost. When wally world moves into an area, a number of small businesses in that area will falter and close. So, you're not for small business? How about manufacturers? - Wal-mart makes manufacturers guarantee high percentages of factory output for products they carry, under the guise of customer-best interests - and then Wal-Mart drives manufacturers out of business by forcing the price below what that manunfacturer can sustain itself. It's okay, though - a Sam's choice brand of that product will most likely be available.
“Wal-mart is too customer oriented - look, they hire Door Greeters just to smile, greet you and help you with your buggy when you come into the store.”
- Right. The door greeter's job classification is one of security. Calling a door greeter a door greeter is placing a happy name on a security title. The door greeter's job is to make sure you don't care things out of the store and to report suspicious activity. Don't believe me? Don't stop when the alarm at the door goes off, because the cashier was too worried about a lunch break than deactivating the security tag on your DVD - loss prevention will DETAIN & QUESTION you. But remember - you're innocent until proven guilty, right?
How many of you have had poor experiences with Wal-mart? Share them. Had good experiences? Share them too..
I can mention... ONE good experience.. There's a guy in electronics named Dwight. That's the friendliest and most helpful wally world employee I've ever met, they should pay that guy 6 figures..
I think, with this forum, we'll find that most of us, don't like wal-mart. But most of us - shop there anyway. I still do, because I'm a tighwad.