ORIGINAL: nodog
The local Walmart here is upgrading. Being a contractor I'm interested in who's doing it. The locals that most people like to cry about having such a hard time because of them, are making a pile of cash building it. In the same area a half a dozen new stores are just being finished because of the draw of Walmart. Jobs are being added and most likely more of my friends will work there, happy people, I've made it a point to ask, people who I've worked for. People who make it possible for me to hunt.
Walmart was a small store once that has grown. If a small local store grew and expanded to other places would people stop supporting them or would the same small store refuse to grow? Do people go in to local stores and ask if the small shop has plans of expanding to other cities taking jobs and making it hard on the locals there as Walmart is so often accused of doing? Wake up! The people who scream the most are a bunch of cry babies who want nothing more than to latch on to Walmarts titt.
What's this doing in the bowhunting section anyways?
Wal-Mart has a horrendous track record in regard to the hiring of undocumented (illegal) aliens, providing adequete medical insurance to its full-time employees,and the right for employees to organize. In Canada (which is heavily unionized), one brand new Wal-Mart store'sworkforcevoted in a union and was closed down the next week.Wal-Mart also promotes the sale of foreign goods by offering suppliers
extremely lucrative contracts in exchange for providing goods at
extremely low prices. These goods are madeby people who work under sub-standard conditions for slave wages.All this from a company whose founder built its reputation selling goods made in America. These are not rumors, but public record.
I bet those "happy people" working at your local Wal-Mart would be much happier if
they could afford to shop somewhereelse, or send their kids to college.