Walmart bashing

[Caldor1999]

Originally posted by 76&AmesfanmanBBTB

Originally posted by Caldor1999

Originally posted by 76&AmesfanmanBBTB

Originally posted by Caldor1999
Wal Mart is really the only store that has been under  a copple scandles before with Music artisets and Kathy Lee LOL anyone remember the awetshop incdent:insane:

What Sweatshop incident?:huh:

lol u dont remeber this waz back in 1996 Kathy Lee Giford had  a clouthing line at Wal Mart and the clouth was made by some company in anouther contry that had labored kids to work or something like that :insane::insane::insane::insane::insane:

OH YEAH! (realizing in remembering)


Didn't South Park do a joke about that when Kathy Lee Giford was a "guest star" on one episode? LOL  :insane:




NOW BACK TO WALMART!

yes now u remeber lol anyways i dident know Wal Mart was all the way in Germity lol

[Caldor1999]

lol there s to much Wal Mart they can make a movie about how its takeing over the world LOL

[Zayre88]

Can the sign be bigger !!!  Here's a story about Wal-Mart and their signs:

march 23 2005 - Portsmouth Herald

PORTSMOUTH - Bigger is not always better when it comes to signage for the proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter on Lafayette Road, the Board of Adjustment ruled Tuesday. The BOA voted 5-2 to deny Wal-Mart?s request for a variance to allow 558 square feet of total signage, where 500 square feet is the maximum allowed.

The additional signs were part of the retail chain?s plan to expand the current store into a 190,800-square-foot Supercenter. The board had previously denied the request to allow more than 1,000 square feet of signage along the property.

Board members voting against the proposal said they didn?t see any reason why the store needed to change the signs it has now.

"I don?t think anyone is going to have trouble finding Wal-Mart with the signage that?s already there," Duncan MacCallum said. :insane:

Arthur Parrott said he felt the number of proposed signs was unnecessary. He noted an 18-square-foot sign for the store?s food center, as well as separate signs highlighting food center items such as "produce" or "meat."

"The food center sign speaks for itself," he said. "You don?t need to beat it over the customer?s head what constitutes food." :insane:

[Zayre88]

Originally posted by 76BraldorZayKamesfanBBTB
heres a Wal-mart at Avalon Mall,St. Johns and no thats not my car I don't have a licence yet, I don't have a car at all I don't drive yet..

I don't even have a clue where St. John's is!

anyway about Walmart...

OMG CAN YOU SAY CHEESEY OLD SCHOOL ?!

LOL

It's probably St. John's Newfoundland, Canada.  It looks like a former Woolco.  Wal-Mart bought 122 Canadian Woolco in 1994.  Older stores don't have a star between "Wal" and "Mart", they used a - .

[Caldor1999]

Originally posted by 76BraldorZayKamesfanBBTB
Has anybody seen the Wal-Mart Supercenter commercial where the "mom" in the ad says that LIVING there would be great?

HOW TERRIBLE IS THAT!

hears a expale of what i get(hot summer.............hot summer swim sutes...............wal mart )

it shows some kids a nd there mouther buy a pool


thats has got to be the worst way to adrvirtes your store lol

[thedisneystore967]

Originally posted by Anonymous

Originally posted by Anonymous
A WORLD WITHOUT WALMART IS A HAPPY ONE!:bigsmile::cool:

AmesmanBBTB that was me


And a world without Ames is a sad one!:(:hurt::barf::no:

and a world without toys r us is every child's worst nightmare...

this is what i have to say to sam walton:

F!!! U!!!!!!!!!!:flaming:

[Zayre88]

Even mother nature does not like Wal-Mart....  see for yourself!

[thedisneystore967]

Originally posted by 76BraldorZayKamesfanBBTB
Heres my idea for what I think Walmarts GOB sale should look like



The announcer/voiceover would say this:

" A famous controversial store closing for good.....due to labor union reasons...........................cheers heard
throughout the crowd.....................Walmart.

boy would that be great...:duh:

[gshowman18]

Originally posted by 76BraldorZayKamesfanBBTB

Sam Walton's son has died crashing his ultralite plane.
(my dad and I joke that the plane failed due to cheap faulty parts fabricated in China)

Yeah, that's great, 76.  Make fun of a guy who died in a plane crash.  I hope you burn in hell, you bastard.

Also, how come people don't Wal-Mart in their area, but not K-Mart or Target?  Why are they singling Wal-Mart out?  Also, why does Wal-Mart get a bad rap about having rude people & unkempt stores?  I'm probably sure there were some Ames or Bradlees or Caldors or Jamesways or Jefferson Wards that had bad service & unkempt stores as well.

As for you 76, why do you care about logos?  Nobody goes to a store or a restaurant because of their logo.  Also, your second grade created logos & brand names really suck.

I have a great idea.  Why don't we have a thread where we can bash dumbasses like you, maybe with a crowbar?  Nobody likes your stupid logos & the only person that responds to your posts is that Caldor99.

Finally, why do you want to keep Dixie Square Mall?  It's a piece of crap that should have been demolished a long time ago.  I don't care that it was used in the Blues Brothers.  Dixie Square Mall caused other buildings to be abandoned & that turned into crime.  Good riddance to DSM!

[gshowman18]

Originally posted by 76BraldorZayKamesfanBBTB


HEY!

I'm not laughing at the fact he died!!!!

thats sad

I just think it would be ironic that the plane crash was caused by cheap products made in China

it problably wasn't

Wal*Mart is a greedy company and sadly also Kmart and Target  has products made in enslaved countries

IT JUST WALMART WANTS TO KILL ALL STORES SO THEY COULD SUCCEED

As for your opinion on DSM it allowed but you truely don't care about it and your just not interested in it like we are.

I have no care in what you have said about my logos.

I have just realized that it is sad that Sam Walton's son has died becauase there's no chance to bring back the OLD Wal*Mart sigh and its sad that HE HAD TO BE ASSOICATED WITH Wal*Mart since he had nothing to do with the company other than the fact that his father founded it.

I WON'T CRY WHEN WALMART GOES GOB!

1.  Even if you did make fun of the plane, you still can't make fun of plane crashes & people who die in them.

2.  Do you have any legitimate proof that Wal-Mart is killing other stores?  It seems as if the other stores killed themselves.  The USA is about capitalism.  Wal-Mart is just doing their jobs.  In Marlton, there's a Wal-Mart right across the street from a K-Mart & they are both doing fine business.

3.  As for Dixie Square Mall, I do understand that it was used in the Blues Brothers, but it's now a dump that has been ruining Harvey, IL for 20+ years.  People want to keep this???  They're out of their minds.

4.  What's an old Wal-Mart?  No, really.  What's an old Wal-Mart?

[gshowman18]

Originally posted by 76BraldorZayKamesfanBBTB

Originally posted by gshowman18
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As for you 76, why do you care about logos?  Nobody goes to a store or a restaurant because of their logo.  Also, your second grade created logos & brand names really suck.

whatever

I have a great idea.  Why don't we have a thread where we can bash dumbasses like you, maybe with a crowbar?  Nobody likes your stupid logos & the only person that responds to your posts is that Caldor99.
e]

not true and I'm ignoring you because I know you love arguments and I'm not going to bother with it.

AS THE SAYING GOES
"sticks and stones may break my bones but words shall never hurt me."

look say whatever you want I DON'T CARE!!!!

Listen, 76, I'll admit it.  I'm sorry that I'm bashing you all the time.  It's just that I'm trying to speak the truth.  Look, I'll probably stop the bashing & I'll just post stuff about the old stores & whatnot.  I'm sorry.

[LazarusFan]

This is scary, but what if...

Wal-Mart builds superstore...
Wal-Mart lowers prices...
All the other stores close in the area...
Wal-Mart closes its store thus the entire community has no place to find something...
Economy in local area collaspes...

Scary isn't it?:o

[Zayre88]

Originally posted by LazarusFan
This is scary, but what if...

Wal-Mart builds superstore...
Wal-Mart lowers prices...
All the other stores close in the area...
Wal-Mart closes its store thus the entire community has no place to find something...
Economy in local area collaspes...

Scary isn't it?:o

It's scary.  What if Wal-Mart decides to close all of their stores.  Imagine the hundreds of thousands of jobs lost.  The hundreds of vacant big box Wal-Mart stores everywhere.  The effects on the economy.

Wal-Mart has a lot of power in its hands...

[tokensafari]

A lot of power that could send us into another depression. Due to the fact that many suppliers depend on Wal-Mart, not to mention the other countless companies. It would be a domino effect in our economy, Wal-Mart would collapse, then vendors, towns, and on down through the ranks. It would be an economy i wouldn't want to experience! WE can hate Wal-Mart for many thing, but one thing is for sure, they are a major foundation in today's market.

[Caldor1999]

i just hate wal mart because there cheep and they hav e no out look on there stores there add s such and they have played a small role in teh closing or Ames Caldor Bradlees Jamesway Montgomery Ward and Service Merchandise although the companys had outher problmes to but wal mart played a small role in there closings too

[Caldor1999]

hears a news story about wal mart and its bad news for them:D


SASKATOON, Canada ? After years of concerted but futile attempts to organize workers at Wal-Mart Stores Inc., union leaders are joining forces to stop the world's largest employer from exporting its low-wage jobs across the globe
In Canada, Germany and Japan, unions are using protests, the courts and political pressure to thwart the giant retailer's expansion.

The effort, one of the most extensive union campaigns in modern labor history, is gathering speed. International labor leaders, meeting in Chicago this week to craft an anti-Wal-Mart campaign, say slowing the retailer is crucial to protecting the wages and living conditions of millions of workers.

Wal-Mart, union officials say, represents all that is wrong with the global economy, including sweatshop abuses and the extinction of mom-and-pop businesses.

"Our emphasis is to get Wal-Mart to abide by the rules," said Jan Furstenborg, head of the commercial division of Union Network International, a Swiss-based umbrella organization that represents more than 900 skills and services unions around the world. "We want the company to realize they have to change if they want to be part of the global business community."

Wal-Mart and its supporters argue that the retailer has raised living standards from Dhaka, Bangladesh, to Detroit, by delivering jobs and low prices to some of the world's poorest neighborhoods. The retailer, which draws 138 million shoppers a week to its 5,379 stores and restaurants worldwide, says it pays its workers equal or better wages than its competitors. Last year, Wal-Mart revenue was $285 billion.

Denying that the company was anti-union, Bryan Miller, a Wal-Mart senior vice president, said the retailer preferred to have "a direct relationship with our associates" without the involvement of a third party. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people around the world, the majority of whom are nonunion workers in North America.

Labor experts say union leaders face an uphill task, given Wal-Mart's deep pockets, its broad support and a disagreement within the labor movement over how to confront the challenges of free trade.

They cite Canada, where unions remain a powerful presence, as an example. In 2003, 32.4% of the Canadian workers were unionized, compared with 14.3% in the U.S., according to Fraser Institute, a Canadian think tank.

But labor's defiance hasn't slowed Wal-Mart's march across Canada, where it now controls 52% of the retail market and has been named in a national survey as the country's best retail employer for two consecutive years. More than 100 communities across the nation have lobbied the retailer to open stores in their neighborhoods, the company said.

"They've really totally shaken up the whole of Canadian retailing," said Richard Talbot, a Toronto retail consultant. "Everybody else is playing catch-up."

At a time of stagnant wages and rising costs, it isn't easy to persuade people, even union members, to give up Wal-Mart's low prices. Fighting that battle is particularly hard in sparsely populated Canada, where people drive hundreds of miles across the prairie to buy groceries.

At this year's Saskatchewan Labor Federation School, workers' voices started quietly, gaining strength with each chorus of "Union Maid," Woody Guthrie's ode to the working class.

"Let's make sure all the women and men of Wal-Mart can hear us," yelled an employee of a retail cooperative.

The 140 students at the training school had one target in mind: the Bentonville, Ark.-based retail giant. In two nearby towns, the local United Food and Commercial Worker's Union was engaged in a contentious organizing drive. Union leaders knew they were taking on a formidable foe: In Quebec, Wal-Mart closed a store after its nearly 200 employees voted to unionize. The retailer said the store was unprofitable.

But in opening remarks, Paul Meinema, the UFCW's chief organizer in Saskatchewan, urged the audience to assess the real costs of succumbing to Wal-Mart's "everyday low prices."

"Is the price of whatever you're buying at Wal-Mart worth the price of a person starving to death or worth the price of an associate being abused?" he asked, imploring them to talk to their family and friends.

Wal-Mart has gone to great lengths to keep its North American facilities free of unions. After butchers at a store in Texas voted to unionize in 2000, the company switched to pre-packaged meat. Unions have filed dozens of complaints against Wal-Mart, a number of which have been upheld by regional or federal labor authorities.

With growth slowing in the United States, Wal-Mart needs to squeeze more from the rest of the world. The company hopes to increase international sales from 20% to one-third of its revenue within five years.

Wal-Mart's foreign division includes more than 1,500 facilities in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Korea, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Britain. Wal-Mart also owns a 42% interest in Seiyu Ltd., a Japanese retailer.

This year, Wal-Mart plans to open as many as 165 stores in foreign countries.

The same forces that make it possible for Wal-Mart to export its big-box retailing to rural China pose a threat to organized labor. Open borders and new technology have made it easier for firms to seek out places with lower wages and less-restrictive work rules. That has accelerated the shift in developed economies from heavily unionized, higher-paying manufacturing jobs to lower-paying, less-secure service sector jobs.

These challenges brought Union Network International officials and other unions to Chicago this week, looking for ways to spread their anti-Wal-Mart message, identify new regions such as     South Korea for organizing, and devise strategies to put pressure on the U.S. retailer.

Building that global campaign got more complicated last month when the UFCW joined three other unions that split from the AFL-CIO. But Andrew Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union and a leader of the breakaway group, insists that the U.S. labor movement is united in its bid to defeat Wal-Mart.

"We're exporting good American jobs chasing low wages and low benefits," he said. "We're exporting a model that says, 'We don't care at all what your countries' standards and benefits are, we're going to change that.' "

Inspired by U.S. unions, foreign labor groups are forging coalitions with community activists and environmentalists to spread their anti-Wal-Mart message. Union members helped persuade officials in Vancouver and Campbell River, Canada, to turn down permits for two Wal-Mart stores in July.

After reports surfaced that Wal-Mart might be buying a Turkish retailer in Russia last year, Alan Spaulding, international director for the UFCW in Washington, hopped on a plane to Moscow to mobilize labor leaders. He has paid similar visits to Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.

When Wal-Mart put India on its expansion list this year, Union Network International sent a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressing concern that Wal-Mart's "uncontrolled entry" into the long-protected retail market could spark a globalization backlash among small businesses displaced by the retailer.

"We want to arrive before Wal-Mart arrives," Spaulding said.

Wal-Mart insists that the union campaign has not had a significant effect on the company's image ? or its bottom line. But over the last year, Chief Executive H. Lee Scott has promoted his company's side of the story more aggressively. He recently visited Brussels, headquarters of the     European Union agency that monitors anti-competition policies. And when the Indian prime minister was in Washington in July, Scott was on his schedule for a "get acquainted meeting."

Steve Spiwak, an economist with Retail Forward, said Wal-Mart had learned that it needed to "grease the process" to succeed abroad. And though he is skeptical that the retailer will budge on its union stance, he said he wouldn't be surprised if the company ends up boosting wages or taking other steps to fend off criticism.

"One thing about Wal-Mart, it is a learning organization," he said. "They rarely make the same mistake twice."

Wal-Mart insists it is not trying to impose a U.S. blueprint on other countries or cultures, saying it leaves management of foreign operations in the hands of locals and adheres to local laws.

In all its foreign markets, except Puerto Rico and China, Wal-Mart has invested in retail operations that were unionized and has continued those relationships, according to the company.

In China, Wal-Mart has agreed to let the government-sanctioned trade union, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, into its operations. So far, none of its staff has requested representation by the union, according to the company. Labor experts said that was not surprising because the ACFTU operates as an arm of the Communist government and was not viewed as a reliable advocate for workers.

Miller said Wal-Mart had developed "great relationships" with workers' groups in countries such as Japan, where unions have traditionally worked closely with management. Atsushi Yoshioka, chairman of the Seiyu Workers Union, agreed that Wal-Mart had improved working conditions, cracking down on unpaid overtime and encouraging employee feedback.

But when Wal-Mart made a play this year to buy another Japanese retailer, Daiei Inc., the union there opposed the purchase. A government agency awarded Daiei to another bidder.

In Germany and Britain, where unions have been involved in legal fights with local Wal-Mart subsidiaries in the last year, the battle lines have been drawn.

"The perception is that Wal-Mart is very much a predator," said Harry Donaldson, an official with Britain's GMB, a union that represents employees at Wal-Mart's ASDA chain.

[jmn3]

Originally posted by 76BraldorZayKamesfanBBTB
you know why Wal-Mart's getting the bap rap


ITS THE MOST RICHEST AND GREEDIEST COMPANY IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!

They DO NOT care about REAL neighborhoods

I can think of some oil companies that are far greedier than Wal-Mart.  Check out the prices at the pump today...and then take a look at how some of the oil companies are doing.  Ole J.R. Ewing would be making a mint today.

[jmn3]

Hey what happy world of discount department stores do y'all come from?  K-Mart is notorious for having some of the rudest employees around.  Try to find one when you need help or when the lines are long.  Target used to have a two-to-a-line policy...anymore than two customers in a checkout line and a new register would open.  That policy is not in place any longer.  

I won't even get into the service at stores like Ames and Hills...actually, all of these type of stores are reminiscient of one and other (including Wal-Mart).  The only thing different about Wal-Mart is their size, which allows them to demand the prices from their suppliers that they do.

[Caldor1999]

hears a intresting news story about wal mart

from    

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051201/ap_on_bi_ge/wal_mart_opinion


BERRYVILLE, Ark. - Nancy McShane used to spend $600 to $700 a month at Wal-Mart on everything from groceries to oil changes. Then in March she abruptly switched to other discount stores, upset over what her turkey-farming relatives saw as undue price pressure from the world's largest retailer.


 
McShane, a Springfield, Mo., housewife with children aged 11 and 12, is among what organized critics claim is a growing number of Americans turning against Wal-Mart amid allegations from unions and others that the company is bad for workers, the environment and communities.

"We cut off Wal-Mart cold turkey. Now I'm preaching it to other people," McShane said.

But for James Butler, a chicken plant worker from Alpena, complaints that Wal-Mart is bad for America just don't add up ? but the savings do.

"It doesn't change my mind. It's just a convenience. And anywhere else costs more," Butler said Wednesday night outside a Wal-Mart Supercenter where he had just purchased batteries.

According to a poll released Thursday by Wake Up Wal-Mart, an anti-Wal-Mart group launched this year by the United Food and Commercial Workers union, more Americans have an unfavorable view of Wal-Mart today than at the start of the year.

The poll showed that a majority, 58 percent, viewed Wal-Mart favorably, but the figure was down from 76 percent in January. Wake Up Wal-Mart said that was proof that its message against the company's low-price business model is hitting its intended target ? the average Wal-Mart shopper.

"What this polling indicates is that Wal-Mart's reputation is in a tailspin," said Paul Blank, campaign director at Wake Up Wal-Mart.

Blank said changes in behavior would follow if consumer's opinions about Wal-Mart continue to fall.

Wal-Mart said the survey was questionable and argued that November sales and an onslaught of holiday shoppers the day after Thanksgiving showed it remained popular.

Figures released Thursday showed that sales at Wal-Mart stores open at least a year rose 3.8 percent in November when compared to November 2004 ? matching analysts' expectations. Same-store sales are considered the best indicator of a retailer's health.

Retail analyst Don Gher said Wal-Mart's monthly sales growth did not suggest that shoppers were staying away amid a slew of attacks by groups alleging that Wal-Mart's low prices come at the cost of poor treatment for its workers, suppliers and communities.

"At this point the sales numbers wouldn't seem to indicate a backlash," said Gher of Coldstream Capital Management in Bellevue, Wash. The company has Wal-Mart stock as part of the roughly $900 million in assets it manages.

Consumers appear divided.

Steve and Sandy Larsen of Holiday Island, which is near Eureka Springs, said they liked Wal-Mart for the prices and the company's pledges to the local food kitchen and the Habitat for Humanity in Benton County, the retailer's home town.

"We work a lot in charity, and they are great," Steve Larsen said at the Berryville Supercenter. "They just keep giving."

But at Springfield, McShane said she changed stores after her relatives, who also raise produce, complained Wal-Mart exerts too much pressure on suppliers to cut their prices.

"That's too much power for one company to have," she said.

The Wake Up Wal-Mart figures came from two national telephone surveys of about 1,000 adults in January and November. The January 15-20 poll by Lake, Snell & Perry had a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points, and the November poll by Zogby had a margin of error of 3.2 percentage points.

"In terms of overall favorability, in the span of about 11 months, Wal-Mart experienced a decline of 18 percentage points in the number of American adults who view the company favorably," Wake Up Wal-Mart said in a summary.

The number of people who said they viewed Wal-Mart very favorably or somewhat favorably fell 18 percentage points to 58 percent while the number who answered that their view was very or somewhat unfavorable increased by the same amount to 38 percent.

The group said attitudes were starting to change shopping practices. Asked how often they plan to shop at Wal-Mart in the next month, the number who said they would not go at all rose 8 percentage points to 28 percent. The largest group, those who planned to shop there once or twice, fell 7 points to 32 percent.

Wal-Mart said the November poll appeared to be times to take advantage of publicity around the release of a scathingly critical documentary, Robert Greenwald's "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices."

"It would be hard for anyone to believe that a poll paid for by the UFCW was more accurate than the fact that our estimated November store sales were up 4.3 percent and that 10 million people shopped at our stores during the first six hours of sales last Friday," Wal-Mart spokeswoman Sarah Clark said.

She added: "A good poll would be to ask if working families enjoy the $2,300 in savings we provide per year."

Clark said Wal-Mart does its own internal tracking of consumer sentiment, but declined to release that data. She said the questions were not the same as Wake Up Wal-Mart's poll so they wouldn't be comparable.

[Crawford]

I would like to know where they get some of their employees. My mother is slightly disabled and needs use of the motorized cart. She does her shopping, renders unto Caeser what is Caeser's and heads for the door, parks and starts to get her bags out. An older woman in the blue vest steps up and says in a loud and rather condescending tone "You can't take that into the parking lot" My mother takes one look at her and says "No....I am going to take it out on the street" This woman then said something rather rude under her breath not knowing I was behind her. I spoke very loud in her ear "You have something to say to my mother say it to her face" Now I stand 6 feet and this nasty biddy is about 5' 5". She turned very pale. A crowd gathered. Mom was angry, the manager came over and didn't even apologise claiming that the "guard" thought my mother was taking the cart into the parking lot which was not true at all. I hate this store, I hate the one in North Attleboro even more but what is one to do? There are no more choices. It is Wal-Mart or Target. Pick one and hope for the best. :flaming:

[Caldor1999]

Originally posted by Crawford
I would like to know where they get some of their employees. My mother is slightly disabled and needs use of the motorized cart. She does her shopping, renders unto Caeser what is Caeser's and heads for the door, parks and starts to get her bags out. An older woman in the blue vest steps up and says in a loud and rather condescending tone "You can't take that into the parking lot" My mother takes one look at her and says "No....I am going to take it out on the street" This woman then said something rather rude under her breath not knowing I was behind her. I spoke very loud in her ear "You have something to say to my mother say it to her face" Now I stand 6 feet and this nasty biddy is about 5' 5". She turned very pale. A crowd gathered. Mom was angry, the manager came over and didn't even apologise claiming that the "guard" thought my mother was taking the cart into the parking lot which was not true at all. I hate this store, I hate the one in North Attleboro even more but what is one to do? There are no more choices. It is Wal-Mart or Target. Pick one and hope for the best. :flaming:

wal mart dose not treat there employeys well thats one of the problems there haveing now also they dont get paied well

[Caldor1999]

hears anouthyer news story on wal mart http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051222/ap_on_bi_ge/wal_mart_lunch_breaks


By DAVID KRAVETS, Associated Press Writer



OAKLAND, Calif. - A California jury on Thursday awarded $172 million to thousands of employees at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. who claimed they were illegally denied lunch breaks.

 
 
 
 
The world's largest retailer was ordered to pay $57 million in general damages and $115 million in punitive damages to about 116,000 current and former California employees for violating a 2001 state law that requires employers to give 30-minute, unpaid lunch breaks to employees who work at least six hours.

The damages were originally tallied as $207 million after a court clerk misread the punitive damages as $150 million. The amount of punitive damages was later clarified.

The class-action lawsuit in Alameda County Superior Court is one of about 40 nationwide alleging workplace violations by Wal-Mart, and the first to go to trial. The Bentonville, Ark.-based retailer, which earned $10 billion last year, settled a similar lawsuit in Colorado for $50 million.

In the California lunch-break suit, Wal-Mart claimed that workers did not demand penalty wages on a timely basis. Under the law, the company must pay workers a full hour's wages for every missed lunch.

The company also said it paid some employees their penalty pay and, in 2003, most workers agreed to waive their meal periods as the law allows.

The lawsuit covers former and current employees in California from 2001 to 2005. The workers claimed they were owed more than $66 million plus interest, and sought damages to punish the company for alleged wrongdoing.

Attorney Fred Furth, who brought the case on behalf of the workers, said outside court that the jury "held Wal-Mart to account."

Wal-Mart attorney Neal Manne said the jury's verdict, reached after nearly three days of deliberations and four months of testimony, would likely be appealed.

He claimed the state law in question could only be enforced by California regulators, not by workers in a courtroom. He added that Wal-Mart did not believe the lunch law allowed for punitive damages.

"We absolutely disagree with their findings," Manne said of the jury's verdict. He conceded that Wal-Mart made mistakes in not always allowing for lunch breaks when the 2001 law took affect, but said the company is "100 percent" in compliance now.

The lawsuit was filed by several former Wal-Mart employees in the San Francisco Bay area in 2001, but it took four years of legal wrangling to get to trial.

The verdict comes as the company is waging an intense public-relations campaign to counter critics aiming to stop the retailer's expansion and make it boost workers' salaries and benefits.

Paul Blank, campaign director for WakeUpWalMart.com, an union-affiliated advocacy group that believes Wal-Mart's policies over wages, health benefits and other issues harm families and communities, said he was delighted by the verdict.

"It is a sad day when Wal-Mart provides these so-called low prices by exploiting their workers and even the law," Blank said.

The company added lower-cost health insurance this year after an internal memo surfaced that showed 46 percent of Wal-Mart employees' children were on Medicaid or uninsured.

A federal lawsuit pending in San Francisco accuses the company of paying men more than women.

[storehistoryguy]

Hey Wal-Mart, they're called stockboys! :insane:

This is actually inside a Wal-Mart. What kind of store waits that long to restock the shelves?


http://blogs.flyertalk.com/blogs/mypoint/

[Caldor1999]

wal mart is so messy and they hva esuch low qultie with there clouthing and the low prices means the low pay cheacks the works get

[storehistoryguy]

Originally posted by Caldor1999
wal mart is so messy and they hva esuch low qultie with there clouthing and the low prices means the low pay cheacks the works get

I hate it when I go to the fish department and they'res always one at least one dead fish in every tank. I like fish but I don't watch them there anymore because dead things animals/bugs have always creeped me out. I can't look at them or touch them or anything.

[Zayre88]

One thing about Wal-Mart:  They have many regular discount store that were built around 10 years ago or more and that average 90,000 to 120,000 sq-ft.

Over the years, the store has more and more customers, more sales and merchandise get stacked up high to the roof, aisle are narrow, fixtures are used, carts are old and damaged, the store is obvouisly not meeting demand and standards...  

Wal-Mart is keeping these stores until they are a mess and then finally invest money, but for a new store, usually a Supercenter.  

They did that for Waterville, Scarborough, Bangor and probably many other stores.  It's kinda cheap for a company to keep stores in this condition without keeping them fit through the years.  It's like:  "The house is dirty, go buy another"

[Crawford]

Boy, is the help at Wal-Mart going down hill, went looking for a TV, one clerk was helping a gentleman, he was done so I asked her for help, you'd think I asked her to quote the first chapter of Genesis. She brushed past  saying "I've got other customers to wait on" people around me looked on in shock. I followed her, guess what, right into the snack bar for a sandwich. I asked her would her customers wait until she was done with lunch and was ignored. I reported her to a manager but I doubt anything will be done. When Wal-mart is pretty much the only game in town, the help can be rude and unfeeling.

[Caldor1999]

Originally posted by Crawford
Boy, is the help at Wal-Mart going down hill, went looking for a TV, one clerk was helping a gentleman, he was done so I asked her for help, you'd think I asked her to quote the first chapter of Genesis. She brushed past  saying "I've got other customers to wait on" people around me looked on in shock. I followed her, guess what, right into the snack bar for a sandwich. I asked her would her customers wait until she was done with lunch and was ignored. I reported her to a manager but I doubt anything will be done. When Wal-mart is pretty much the only game in town, the help can be rude and unfeeling.

the service at wal mart sucls mostey because th eworks there dont get paired well i would suggest working at Target Sears Macys JC Penny A&P Lowes AC Moror ect

[Caldor1999]

i was in white planes yesturdya and i was soo mad to see that wal mart was moving into teh old Sears bulding witch was located right next to a target Filenes Basment and a  office max theres no need for a wal mart there i wish Kohls or some outehr REAL retaler snched it up befor etehy did im soo mad at there there no need to have a Wal Mart there:mad:

[storehistoryguy]

This is a REAL picture inside a REAL Wal-Mart! :holysh::holysh:


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