Wal-Mart has discovered the power of targeting state and local officials. The retailer has already given $644,000 this year to state and local candidates, according to the Institute on Money in State Politics.
Meanwhile, despite evidence showing otherwise, Wal-Mart denies it is moving its work force of 1.3 million to be 40 percent part-timers, up from 20 percent last year. Last year, an executive issued a memo to board members encouraging a larger part-time work force and questioning the value of long-term higher-paid employees when new employees were as productive.
Wal-Mart has been under fire from several states for the low pay and limited benefits it gives employees, spurring several “Wal-Mart bills” aimed at improving benefits for employees. These actions could force candidates to make some tough decisions during an election year.
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Sam Walton would not even recognize his company today. His kids have turned it into all about the money. I miss Sam Walton – he was one of the good guys.
Lucee, I agree 100%.
Hmm…
Local politicians were tageting Walmart with laws, now Walmart is spending more money on politics…
Seems pretty logical to me.
I bet it do Nathan.
The rich get richer and fight tooth and nail for it is right where you live aint it?
Piss on Wal Mart.
Fun activities for a rainy afternoon.
Go to Walmart. Load up a cart with ice cream, meat, and other refrigerated goods.
Wander around the store. Leave the cart full of cold goods in the garden center or sporting goods section.
Leave.
BL,
I too despise WalMart but that is some petty sh*t that you are suggesting.
V.L.R.B!!
Not to mention you are not hurting the company, but hurting the very people that some are complaining about Wal-Mart not treating fairly. The cost of those items will come from the stores profit and not the company’s. Employee bonuses come from the profit of the store and are based on the profit of the store and not the company. In the end all you will have done is take money out of the pockets of people that can ill afford it. And cause someone that has no control over Wal-Mart’s actions to have to clean up the mess you have made.
But yes I am seeing the effects of that memo that the topic mentioned, changes in the benefits to save cost, fewer full time positions, passing on cost to the employees. And changes that will in the end cost the company money in an attempt to save a few dollars and force the consumers to change their buying habits to make those cost savings. The doing away with the layaway program is the biggest and right at the biggest time of the retail year. It seems Wal-Mart is the last of the large retailers to have a layaway program.Something that should have been used to bring more shoppers in and they are throwing that away.From now on if you do not have the money to buy something outright. You will have to use a credit card and of course you will be given the option to get a Wal-Mart credit card.
I never met Sam, but those I work with that had said about the same thing as Lucee did.
O boy, another wal mart bashing thread. Put on your spiked gloves and get to typing kids.
Wal mart saves the “not-rich” in this country over 150 billion dollars a year. If wal mart were to die today, where would those same “not-rich” save the money on groceries, et al, they do today by buying at wal mart?
Or would you rather they spend their meager earnings at some upscale store because that same upscale store pays their employees more?
It’s the public that makes or breaks stores, not the people who are bashing it, and the latest survey says over 85% of americans shop at wal mart at some time during the year. Any of you know what that means?
Sure it would be responsible for wal mart to pay higher wages and provide decent medical coverage, but that is NOT the realm of the government to dictate that. They dictate a minimum wage, and that’s it. You want higher wages for the employees, tell your congressperson, not wal mart.
Gee, I remember a minimum wage increase bill that democrats tried to push, but which a tax decrease rider for the rich was attached to by the repukes. Tell me, where does the responsibility lie on that one?
Government getting involved with specific companies, as Virginia(?) did with wal mart, stinks of socialism. Maybe that’s what some of you want, but that’s not what this countriy is about.
Go into any walmart in Wichita and who will you find shopping? That’s right, mostly poor. And where will they go to shop if you socialists succeed in closing wal mart and anyone like them? Are you going to subsidize their purchases when they exceed their wages?
Hate them if you will, but they fill an important niche in this country. Just ask the people who are forced to shop there by OTHER companies who pay low wages.
A lot of folks are looking forward to the the $4.00 generic prescription drugs that Walmart will be offering soon. That will be a big public service. Sure,it will help drive store traffic, but it’s a classic win win.
‘Go into any walmart in Wichita and who will you find shopping? That’s right, mostly poor. And where will they go to shop if you socialists succeed in closing walmart and anyone like them.”
How about Target- cleaner store not as depressing,, prices on food about the same, little better quality Chinese made junk. I think maybe the French own it too.Hey a socialist wet dream eh, Why I shop there. They used to offer health care but extreme completion from predatory capitalist Walmart forced them to drop it.
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3046wal-mart_pricing.html
A little article how walmart forces USA manufacturers out of business. A Fine example of what’s wrong with unregulated capitalism.
NEW YORK, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Target Corp. (TGT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday that it will match Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) new, lower prices on generic drugs in all Florida Target pharmacies beginning on Friday.
Earlier on Thursday Wal-Mart said it will expand its program offering generic drugs for $4 per prescription throughout Florida on Friday, and said it may bring the program to other U.S. states before the end of the year.
The answer to Wal Mart is anti trust measures. Bust them up.
Wal Mart is probably the second most destructive force in America behind only george bush.
Well, ‘writer dog’, let me tell you something. Walmart’s prices may seem low, but they aren’t. When Walmart doesn’t pay their employees decent wages, and doesn’t furnish health care – who do you think pays for that? Do you think these employee’s medical, dental and vision services are free? No!!! WE, the taxpayers are paying for it. Every time one of Walmart’s part-time, low-paid employees goes to the Doctor or Dentist – we pick up the tab!! Our tax dollars pay for services at clinics and Healthwave insurance….So, the “not-rich” aren’t really saving any money at WalMart…Do you think it’s fair that the heirs of Walmart are raking in billions and billions and not having to provide a “living wage” and basic health care to their employees? How many Rolls-Royces do they need? I think they could afford to provide a little more. I hope one day the employees of WalMart will wake up and organize a Union – that’s the only way they will ever be able to negotiate with the Waltons!!
I was a set-up manager for Wal-Mart in the Southeast U.S. for three years. I finally was fed up with the lies and deceit they told local communities in convincing them a Wal-Mart would be “good” for them and finally I quit in 1996.
Wal-Mart is a predatory business and will deliberately target any business no matter what size. They want to be a monopoly and by eliminating any competitor they in turn can dictate and control the community’s economics and it is not below them to pay off city/county officials in order to achieve this monopoly.
Were any Sedgewick County Commissioners paid off in the recent Wal-Mart approval for the new facility on North Meridian? No proof yet but if you were a betting person the odds would be heavily in your favor for yes there were payoffs.
Go to jibjab.com and listen to “Big Box mart” That will tell you all you need to know about Wal Mart.
Why can’t we get a Costco? I hear they pay and treat their employees better.
“Government getting involved with specific companies, as Virginia(?) did with wal mart, stinks of socialism. Maybe that’s what some of you want, but that’s not what this country is about.”
This is a good point, Just what is this country about? The rich want a tax cut on inheritance so they tie a bill to the minimum wage.What’s up with that GOP?
The rich want more- the values crowd have no values-anything goes as long as they’re doing it and it’s all the liberals fault.
All this moaning and groaning over Wal-Mart donations but you don’t look at the big companies and rich that donate. Target has been one of the largest Democrat donors for years but you don’t seem to be upset about that.
If you don’t like it, do what I did. Stop shopping there.
Target has a better selection, friendly customer service and they don’t have that watch dog at the front doors wanting to see your receipt.
Wal-Mart has changed and its not good. Those $4 generic drugs are no big deal. Those drugs cost them pennies so why haven’t they been cheaper all along? Have they been gouging the customer for all these years?
The only reason they have come out with $4 generic drugs is because it is an election year and they see the Republicans are in trouble.
HAHAHAHAHA
Ian advocates genocide for black people, but thinks leaving a cart of ice cream at wally world is petty shit????
That’s funny,even if you consider the source,that’s funny!
STS-thanks for the tip.I’ll shop at Target from now on.
What kills me is that the same rock-ribbed Conservative small business owners are the ones getting CRUSHED by Mao-Mart.
Those of you who don’t like “socialism?”
What do you call it when government writes laws and treaties–like MFN status with a communist dictatorship like China–as a response to big money donations?
Corruption . . .
Oh, and btw, you people who are “services” like insurance and banking so you think you don’t have to face Mao-Mart?
Think again.
They’re going to try to corner every market they can . . . and nobody does it better.
Now wait a darn minute.I THOUGHT that the whole point of capitalism is to dominate the market, crush competitors, maximize profits through low wages so that we can pay higher dividends to our capitalistic investors, AND MAKE SHITLOADS OF MONEY off of the same blue collar people.Isn’t that what capitalism is all about?
Mao Mart you’ve got to love that.Comrades why does the GOP support the red army?
Heh, that’s what it USED to be about, Tracy.
Then the anti-trust laws came along to fight monopoly.
Unfortantely, starting with Reagan, the Conservatives want to take us back to 1906.
I’m on the management side.I can tell you what the realities are.
Er, Capn, the Sherman AntiTrust Act was passed in 1898, if I recall correctly.
I have “issues” with WalMart but that does not translate to “bashing”. I think the company should shoulder responsibility for its employees; I also realize that will raise costs and thus the prices my family pays there.
B L – I hope they catch you and prosecute.
What’s wrong with 1906 Capn. Could use the state militia to put down labor unrest. Were just got done putting those nasty Indians on those lush reservations. No child labor laws, no environmental nonsense. Crony capitalism. Did I forget anything?
So, can I crush the competitors, and lower wages as part of a strategy to maximize profit?
Ian’s got the guns and he’s pissed.Look out BL!!
http://economistsview.typepad.com/
The Republican majority on the National Labor Relations Board … has just declared that millions of workers who thought they had the right to join unions don’t. You see, the act grants that right only to workers who aren’t supervisors. And the board, ruling on a case involving nurses, has declared that millions of workers who occasionally give other workers instructions can now be considered supervisors.
As the dissent from the Democrats on the board makes clear, the majority bent over backward, violating the spirit of the law, to reduce workers’ bargaining power.
So what’s keeping paychecks down? Major employers like Wal-Mart have decided that their interests are best served by treating workers as a disposable commodity, paid as little as possible and encouraged to leave after a year or two. And these employers don’t worry that angry workers will respond to their war on wages by forming unions, because they know that government officials, who are supposed to protect workers’ rights, will do everything they can to come down on the side of the wage-cutters.
There are some deals in Walmart that are pretty good, some not so good. You can buy online less expensive and higher quality electronics for example.
Stores like Target and Walmart have wiped from the face of America the ‘mom and pop’ stores leaving many main streets looking like declining ghost towns.
This of course is the livestock central processing approach to marketing. It is cheaper to do things in quantity and once you control the market, you become the 800 pound gorilla.
People of today want convenience of central access points to do their shopping, communications and now even political herding.
Of course with centralization comes less human involvement and interaction. Thus, people tend to make their own focus groups to concentrate their power. Just look at the political parties and the different factions in each party. People long to have at least one hand on the reins. They may not want to drive the train, but they certainly want the opportunity to toot the horn.
That, ladies and gentlemen is Walmart 101. Deliberate attempts to exclude sociology terms was taken to the nth degree.
We talked a lot about Walmart in some of my MBA classes. One major point made is that WM provided both shopping and job opportunities in small towns that the mom/pop stores lacked. That is why customers deserted Main Street and traveled a few (or sometimes many) miles to a WM.
JM is, of course, describing the natural effect of the economic principle denominated “economies of scale”, that is, the ability due to the size of a participant in the market to acquire the means of production at a lower cost than its competitiors, allowing it, then, to sell its products at a lower price. Thus, when a market is free from regulation, absent perfect information available to the participants in said market, the end result of economies of scale is the creation of a monopoly, if the monopolist is successful in creating demand for the unique goods it sells as opposed to other competing products. Along the way, the monopolist to be can engage in predatory pricing; tying of the availability of its desired product for purchase by the consumer to other, not desired products, which the consumer is also forced to purchase, among other things.
Thus, the need for regulation, especially in markets where there exist, whether natural (e.g., public utilities) or artificial (e.g., monopolization) demand which is price inelastic. The attempts by the several states to regulate Wal Mart by forcing it to identify and quantify the societal costs incurred, whether by mandating health insurance benefits for its employees, etc., have resulted in Wal Mart’s lobbying expenditures, a natural reaction. It is also arguable that these regulatory attempts have led to the increase in part time employees, given the superceding Federal law, such as pertinent provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, which deal with and mandate coverage of full time employees (as defined) while allowing noncoverage of part time employees in order to receive favorable tax treatment for the expenditures to provide such benefits.
Am I arguing for the break-up of Wal Mart? No, so long as Target, Costco, et al exist as competitors; but it is necessary to be on guard.
Wal-mart is such a positive family values icon, that’s why they sold the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, cut employees pay for on the job injuries and fire women if they get pregnant.
.morg, having dealt with both Target and Wal Mart on a business relationship basis, Target is the much better run company.Still, it would be nice if Target carried stuff that appeals to those of us who have graduated from puberty.For an old fart like me, shopping at Target is such a traumatic experience, it makes me want to rush to Wal Mart and kiss the parking lot.
I guess I don’t understand Mr.C regarding puberty and merchandise selection@Target.I don’t work there those are my personal opinions, but be warned I am a graduate of the Karl Rove school of propaganda. My wife buys groceries there.I’m 51 and an old fart also.I’m at the point where grabbing more stuff doesn’t do much for me.
I got a $25 Target gift card from my employer last year. Spent FOUR HOURS at the Super Target on Greenwich…NO clothing in my size whatsoever;NONE of the brands of groceries I routinely buy at Dillons and Wal Mart;Only one of the sinus medications I usually buy;And when a store employee FINALLY asked if she could help, I explained my situation, and she just said, “Well, gee, you’re just not cool”.I have the perfect punishment for Osama Bin Laden if we ever catch him: a $100 Target gift card.
Mr. C: Understand the problem with clothing, at least in my case, most shirts, etc. Target carries don’t have enough Xs before the L. Rarely is there a “T” after the L, as well.
I’m more fortunate than you in the other cases you cite; but, it does make one wonder if our age demographic fits within Target’s marketing plans.
MrC – go visit Omar the tentmaker …
;^)
Julie – how do you know about Sam Walton’s tip giving? Were you with him at the time?
What I know is that Sam Walton brought an idea to have a store where the average person can shop and he did that.
But yet you down Sam Walton for not tipping his barber but yet you have no problem with the CEO’s of current corporations laying off thousands of employees so that the stockholders can make that extra $1?
You, my sweetie, must be one of those pious types that will hold onto their money and then grab for their neighbor’s.
Why the crack about tipping the barber? Alot of people don’t tip barbers or hairstylists.
Are you one of those crazed out waitresses that treat the customer like a piece of dirt and then wonder they didn’t tip?
Lucee, and others: management of a corporation have a fiduciary duty to the shareholders, which is to maximize the value of the investment, while not breaking any laws to do so. There is no duty to employees to continue the employment beyond the term of the current contract (if any); continued employment of those not needed to produce the corporation’s goods and services at the lowest possible cost and of a quality that the customer will accept could well be determined a violation of that duty I mentioned above, leaving the management open to litigation.
To change this, concerned shareholders could, by majority vote at an annual shareholders’ meeting, adopt resolutions outlining expectations about management conduct and their willingness to forego the extra $1 in the annual dividend; but given the fact so many shares of publicly held companies are owned by mutual funds, pension plans, insurance companies, etc., it will likely prove difficult to pass such a resolution. Do I wish it was otherwise? Yes; but it’s not.
You are right Vaughn – it is up to the stockholders and the CEO’s to be more inclusive of profit sharing.
That is, what I believe, is wrong with the country today. It is about me-me-me rather than us-us-us.
Corporations already make huge profits – what would another $1 profit mean if there are thousands laid off just to make that extra $1? Those thousands laid off affect their families, their livelihood, their creditors, and so on. The bottom line is not just the corporation’s bottom line (which already has a profit). The bottom line is how their greed for that extra $1 affects their fellow Americans.
Vaughn–
It was 1890, but the Anti-trust act wasn’t used in court until later . . . Teddy R. and Taft.
1906 is about right . . . 100 years of progress and the Pukes want to undo everything.
Bottom line is what kind of country do you want live in. One that allows its rich and powerful to lord over it’s citizens.Or something else?
Ben?
You “hope B L is caught and prosecuted”?
Uh….for what? “illegally leaving a cartload of merchandise”?
I think what B L posted is an EXCELLENT idea. Hit back at Wal Mart anyway we can.Do you know that those bastards SO control the market that now there are products that you can get ONLY at Wal Mart?
If the Dems get in, I’d like to see anti-trust measures against Wal Mart. Until then, I buy almost nothing new. Just about anything I buy is second hand. I refuse to participate in this economy any more than I have to.
J R – malicious damage to private property. Perishable foods that spoil.
Like I said, I do have ‘issues’ with Walmart. I support those states that are acting. However I do draw lines. What he proposes is no different than vandalism.
It’s destruction of merchandise. If you’re caught doing it, you’ll be charged and convicted.
First off, joining in a criminal enterprise—the purposly leaving of parishables out to rot—is against the law, and just plain stupid.
WE DON”T LIKE THEM, SO WE’LL MAKE IT IMMPOSSIBLE, FOR FOR THE 85% OF THIS NATION WHO SHOP THERE, TO SHOP THERE! AFTER THAT, WE WILL TAKE OUR BALL AND GO HOME!
God, you jerks are arrogant. DON”T FRIKIN SHOP THERE!!! be one of the 15% who don’t. BECAUSE WHO FRIKIN CARES???Do you care because you’re one of the 15% who know what’s best for the rest of us? Because a system not driven by socialism, and run by people you 15% think should run it, can’t work because you frikin say so?
I despise rosell, jm, and a lot others, but you take the cake. Take em down any way you can because you think it should be so. When it comes to lunacy, I don’t pull the punches. Do you know what the word “VOTE” means? “VOTE” people in who think like you and have them change the laws. This is a democracy, not an insane asylum.
Who do you think is going to end up paying for crap thinking like that, your daddy? Hell no, it’s the people who can’t afford to shop anyplace else. Hell, there’s too much of that shit going on now by morons with less brain cells than then an ameba. Good choice: make em pay.
As Todd said, “you’ll be caught and convicted”, and, I might add, have to pay back every frickin penny in merchandise you frikin ruined. So who turns out to be the chump now, walmart? I don’t think so.
JM Walker despises me, awwww shucks.
How about a group hug?
JM,
What group, your ten fingers?
The community I live in Wal Mart and Target are having a world of hurt trying to get in the “Super” stores (that’s the one’s that have all the groceries too if you don’t know) because of political corruption by the grocers union.This is against the will of our community.If WalMart is such a bad place to work why don’t they seem to have any trouble finding employees?It’s people who want $25 an hour for unskilled labor that is the problem.Go to college or a trade school and get yourself a good education where you are more valued and have a more marketable skill than someone windexing the fixtures, folding tshirts or running bottles, boxes and cans over a scanner and reading me the price and then not knowing how to count me back my change.
Wal-Mart isn’t the real problem; it’s only othe most obvious example. Capitalism, at least American style, encourages, if not forces companies to focus on the next quarter’s bottom line to the exclusion of any concern about the community they influence or the future they create. There are good companies out there, but they will be the first to tell you that they are swimming upstream.
Called me a long list of names there J M Walker. stupid, criminal, arrogant, insane.
I’ve called no Wal Mart supporter/apologist any names. I HAVE a few but I’ve held my fire.
I’ll take a misinformed attack or two but then I’m gonna start to take it personal. Never featured you for a conservative. That is until you demonstrated you only think about yourself and your cheap goods.
There is nothing criminal about loading up a cart and walking away. Nothing is stolen or deprived the owner.
Deal is? You Wal Mart defenders/apologists are outta the way,,,,for now. You get the cheap stuff and you don’t have to worry about your fellow Americans.
I say Wal Mart is destroying America and any way to fight it is a good thing.
You go ahead on and show me an alternative. I will not work for Wal Mart. I’d rather die. I cannot open a store. Wal Mart would crush me.You go ahead on J M and be part of the problem. Don’t bag on me for trying to be part of the solution of hitting Wal Mart back any way possible.
When bloggers, or anyone else for that matter, decide that destryoing a store, or LEGAL enterprise, by the means you describe, I, as an American, take serious offence. You evidently have no idea what constitutes a conservative, of which I am not, or a liberal, which I am.
What I don’t condone under any circumstances is anarchy. That seems to me to be what you condone by making, or condoning, lunatic suggestions.
I am not part of the problem: you and your arrogance are. Who the frik died and made you god so you can instill your socialist nonsense on the 85% of the people of this country who shop at walmart? Who the frik gave you the right to use “any means possible” to close something YOU don’t like? Thats anarchy, bozo, and something no intelligent, thinking person would condone. So if you want to take this personally? Be my guest. Your way farther left than Joe could ever hope to be right.
You have every right to write anything you want on this blog, but I also have the right to ridicule youe nonsense. Don’t bother polishing that silver plate, cause the world ain’t putting itself on it for you.
JM,The main reason they are a LEGAL enterprise is because they’ve bought and paid for the legislative branch of government.
Then vote people in who will change that. You do understand the word “vote” don’t you?
“There is nothing criminal about loading up a cart and walking away. Nothing is stolen or deprived the owner.”
Then you should have no problem whatsoever with returning to the store after the merchandise is ruined and telling the store manager you did it. Since you didn’t do anything wrong, I’m sure you won’t be arrested and forced to pay for it.
Basic economics,in today’s market much cheaper to buy politicians than take care of your employees.
JR, I like the wally world cart idea. I wouldn’t use it, but I like it.Along the same lines:If the bank screws you over,rent a safety deposit box and prompltly deposit some frozen seafood, then conveniently lose your key.Nothing illegal about keeping that valuable seafood in a safe place, huh?
Conservatives applaud Wal-Mart because they provide lower prices. However when other people try to get lower prices by buying drugs from Canada, allowing government programs to negotiate for lower drug prices, regulating utilities to provide lower energy costs to the consumer, or setting up a universal health care program which would be cheaper than private plans the conservatives shout NO!
So since the entire argument that Wal-mart is good because it provides cheaper products is a facade, what is the real reason conservatives love Wal-mart? Is it because it really does screw the people over?
Is wal-mart doing an injustice to their employee’s – YES. Is it the government’s job to make them stop – NO, cuz that’s not a capitalistic principal that this nation was founded on. It’s wal-mart’s job to figure that out and take action on their own. Capitalism is the basis that a company goes out and tries to do it better than everybody else, if they can’t do their job better than their competitors then they go out of business. If wal-mart doesn’t treat their employee’s right, then they will loose employees and won’t be able to hire as many, which will in turn make them loose business, and they will loose money. Yes, that is a process that will take a while, but that’s what it will take, and it will happen eventually if wal-mart doesn’t take action now. It’s not the government’s job to regulate wal-mart, until the point where wal-mart completely shuts out it’s competition and is officially a monopoly there is nothing the government should do.
As for Sam Walton, he would not recognise wal-mart as it is now. I’ve talked to people who worked at wal-mart while sam was alive and they all agree that they were treated better, and that they actually enjoyed comming to work, whereas now days they come to work only because they’ve been around so long they don’t want to work anywhere else and have to start all over at the lowest seniority.
We just got word.
A federal court just ruled that Wal-Mart must face a class-action lawsuit affecting more than 2 million current and former female Wal-Mart employees who say Wal-Mart discriminated against them both in pay and promotions.
As you may recall, in 2004, a federal judge said Wal-Mart must stand trial in the largest gender discrimination lawsuit in U.S. history. But, Wal-Mart appealed the ruling.
Well, today, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Wal-Mart’s appeal and said that Wal-Mart must stand trial.
This is great news and big victory for more than 2 million female Wal-Mart employees who were paid less and promoted less than their equivalent male counterparts.
As the court stated in its ruling, “Plaintiff’s expert opinions, factual evidence, statistical evidence and anecdotal evidence present significant proof of a corporate policy of discrimination and support plaintiff’s contention that female employees nationwide were subjected to a common pattern and practice of discrimination.”
Now we need your help.
Please forward the article about Wal-Mart’s gender discrimination lawsuit on to 5 of your friends.
By joining together, we have the power to build a movement that will change Wal-Mart and change corporate America forever.
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April 17.2007 my 7 yr. old grandaughter and I were harrasedby 3 teens in the store. After reporting this to 3 employees and requesting security to escort me to my car, no one came to my rescue. The door greeter pointed to the door and said there is a security person in a truck outside the store and sent me on my way. Meanwhile as I approached the truck to inform the so called security guard I spotted the 3 youths at the door right across from my car and told him of my problem and asked him to take me to my car, he them called into the store and talked to a female manager and stated there were 3 teens who had harrased me. At that time the teens spotted me and started to walk toward me, as the teens approached they made hand and voice gestures of ponting a gun at me and sounds of cocking and firing a gun at me. I asked the guard to call 911, which he relayed to the manager. The manager told that I would have to come back into the store and call myself. I was appauled!!AT THAT TIME I REQUESTED HIM TO CALL!! he would not, and the manager said for me to come back into the store. I kept pleeding to him to call. I said i couldn’t believe that this store was not protecting it’s customers and started to reach into my purse for my cell phone when the guard said do you have a cell phone? I dialed 911 and stated walmart would not call for me and proceeded to tell them what had happened and hung up. aAt that time the manager came out of the store to me and said” I said the police were called and they took off running”, they wont come back.This is how walmart handles their problems!!! I was told by security he never received a call to come into the store, the first employee did not report my incident in the store, and the security guard does not carry a gun, tasser,cannot call 911 unless approved by manager nor can he get out of his vehicle to help even if i was being rapped. he states he can only call the police! DA!!! WHY NOT AT THIS TIME!! MANAGEMENT BRUSHED ME OFF SAID THERE WAS ONLY ONE PERSON WHO COULD VIEW THE SECURITY CAMERAS AND HTEY WEREN’T THERE! THEYNEVER ASKED FOR MY NAME, PHONE NUMBER,APPOLOGIZED JUST LEFT. I HAS STATED TO THE OFFICER THAT THEY NNEDED A POLICE PERSON TO SECURE THE PROPERTY LIKE GIANT EAGE, AND HE SAID THEY DID AT ONE TIME AND SAID IT COST TOO MUCH. I GUESS MINE NOR ANYONELSES LIVES ARE NOT AS IMPORTANT AS THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR! I HAVE YET TO HEAR BACK FROM CORPORATE TO WHICHI CONTACTED THE VERY NEXT DAY!AFTER MENTIONING SEVERAL TIMES THAT I DIDN’T FEEL GOOD AND MY HEAD FELT LIKE IT WAS GOING TO EXPLODE AND CONVINCED THAT IF THESE YOUTHS WERE APPREHENDED THEY WOULD PROBALY GET A SMACK ON THE HAND IF THAT AND COULD GET MY ADDRESS I DECIDED TO DROP CHARGES AND LEAVE. I THEN TOOK MYSELF TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM TO HAVE MY BLOOD PRESSURE CHECKEDN AND NOT TO MY SURPRIZE IT WAS VERY HIGH. I WAS ADVISED TO STAY AND SEE A DOCTOR SINCE MY HEAD WAS ABOUT TO EXPLODE. AFTER BEING MEDICATED FOR ANXIETY, BLOOD WORK, CT OF HEAD AND AN EKG I WAS RELEASED AFTER MY BP DID COME DOWN TO NORMAL. THIS WAS A TRAMATIC NIGHT FOR ME AND I WILL NEVER FORGIVE WALMART FOR IGNORING ME. WHAT IF THESE TEENS IN FACT HAD A GUN AND SHOT ME? WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN THERE TO HELP MY GRANDAUGHTER, FINE THE PERSON WHO DID IT ANYTHING!! I DO NOT FEEL SAFE AT WALMART ANYMORE AND I’M VERY DISAPPOINTED IN THIS STORE!!! I DONT WISH BAD THINGS UPON OTHER PEOPLE, BUT I DO HOPE SOMEONE DOES TEACH ONE OF THOSE EMPLOYEES OR WALMARTS FAMILY ALESSON SOMEDAY AND THEY HAVE HAPPEN TO THEM WHAT HAPPENED TO ME AND MY GRANDAUGHTER! OH, BY THE WAY I DID FAIL TO MENTION THAT MY GRANDAUGHTER AND MY DAUGHTER WERE HELD AT GUNPOINT IN THEIR HOME JUST 2 MONTHES PRIOR AND THIS WAS MENTIONED TO EVERYONE. DO YOU THINK THEY CARED OR ADDRESSED HER TO SEE IF SHE WAS OK???? NOT!!!!IT’S ASHAME WHEN SECURITY ADMITS TO YOU THAT THEY IN FACT CAN DO NOTHING FOR YOU EXCEPT SIT IN THEIR VEHICLE AND WATCH. NO COMMENT WHEN THIS WAS STATED TO THE MANAGER TOO!! PLEASE RESPOND IF YOU HAVE AN OPINION ABOUT THIS OR CAN HELP ME!! THANKS FOR LETTING ME VENT. J.J.
You all have no vision. WalMart CARES about people and they are very diversed with regards to race. Not bad for a company in ARKANSAS! :) Lighten up. I mean, it’s the AMERICAN Way, albeit, capitalism. :) Stop being jealous and JOIN IN! At least WalMart products are sound and the prices are REALISTICALLY affordable.