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Wal-Mart, The High Cost of Low Prices
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bacasper



Joined: 26 Mar 2007

PostPosted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like Korea's version, E-Mart, much better. They don't understaff, and I really like that they actually pay someone just to bow to me every time I go in or out! Smile
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Atavistic



Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.

PostPosted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

bacasper wrote:
[...]and I really like that they actually pay someone just to bow to me every time I go in or out! Smile


Shit, I need to go to bed because my eyes just added an "l" to a key word in that sentence... And I wanted to know where the hell you were shopping!
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bacasper



Joined: 26 Mar 2007

PostPosted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Atavistic wrote:
bacasper wrote:
[...]and I really like that they actually pay someone just to bow to me every time I go in or out! Smile


Shit, I need to go to bed because my eyes just added an "l" to a key word in that sentence... And I wanted to know where the hell you were shopping!

No, that would be Ball-Mart! Laughing
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Ukon



Joined: 29 Jan 2008

PostPosted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ilsanman wrote:
Yes, there's that, but their reasons were not the same as what you're preaching.

Walmart's crime was not being Korean. They kicked Walmart out but kept 4-5 different Walmart wannabes.

Dev wrote:
BTW, Congratulations Korea!

You kicked Wal-Mart out of your country.

Newbies in Korea, FIY, Wal-Mart had stores here until 2006, but Koreans didn't take the bait and sent Wal-Mart packing.. Very Happy


I heard it was becuase Wal-mart ran their stores like they did back home: crappy, spartan, dirty interiors included. It was also the reason they failed in some European countries along their buisness and/or inventoryu practices(which I guess didn't really work there).
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Ukon



Joined: 29 Jan 2008

PostPosted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dev wrote:
sargx wrote:
It's a job for uneducated people. Should we pay them 250,000$ to stock shelves?


The salary here is not so much the issue as Wal-Mart's underhanded techniques of exploitation like forced unpaid overtime and union busting. Wal-Mart works people to death treating them like machines. At least, the "uneducated" staff at Bob's hardware get treated with respect not generally being worked to death.

I'll bet there are a lot of housewives from lower income families working themselves to death at Wal-Mart. There seems to be something ethically wrong with this. They're trying to make an honest living on minimum wage.

What I am saying is that even uneducated people deserve some kind of respect.


To be fair, Wal-mart jobs could be done by monkeys, They're not the only game in town either.....and unions aren't necessarily great for those jobs.

I worked in the drug store section of a grocery store(there is a difference, it rocks)...everybody in the entire store hated the Union....whatever benefits we got in pay were nixed by union dues....mind, you we never saw any advantages as to having a union.

If Wal-mart wants a union, they happy to burden themselves.....
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Fishead soup



Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea

PostPosted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DDD workers in Korea make between 1.2- 1 million a month that would be a step up from Wallmart. Working at a BJ bar in Bangkok would be a step up from Wallmart. Being on Mothers Allowance is a step up from Wallmart. Getting a University degree while serving time is a step up from Wallmart.
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