Walmart plans to add more than 150 large-format stores across the U.S.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/31/walmart-plans-to-add-150-more-stores-across-us.html

I don't really shop at wal mart, but more jobs in this country is a good thing.

 

Too bad 90% of them will be poverty wage jobs. Walmart views their employees, as nothing more than numbers.

 

Must be why the GOP loves the Wal-Mart model.

 

And yet you're the one that ran here with the great news...

 

Nice jab, but in lefty-land, poverty is still the highest in the country. I am not defending the right, but the left is still worse based on actual results.

BTW, here in CA, Walmart was deemed "essential" during Covid while mom n pop shops selling the exact same items were shut down. The left is in their pocket as much as the right.

 

That, and the fact that the Walton family are huge GOP donors.

 

if they were closing 150 it would be Biden bad
but as they opening 150, it's only gonna create min wage jobs

 

They viewe them as an expense, labor is an expense you know. If they cost more than the labor they provide then they are loss to the company. Wages are just part of that cost.

 

Good but ain't that big a deal...

The 160+ Walmart Stores Closing (Or Already Closed) in Recent Years
https://www.rather-be-shopping.com/blog/all-the-walmart-stores-closing/

 

Walmart pretty much uses its stores as a distribution center for their web business, so it really isn't surprising. Bigger stores will not necessarily mean more goods. It very well could be just more little affiliated businesses around the margins like barber shops, subways, and the like.

 

Lots of construction and logistics jobs at least

 

How many new ones already opened during that period ?

 

But.....people can't even afford milk and eggs, let alone meat.

 

To be fair….Those are some of the least helpful service employees you can find lol

 

Bam!

 

exactly, they have Trump's legal bills to pay., can't afford $2-$4 for eggs

 

Is it funny or amazing that labor always ends up being a cost that never is able to pull it's own weight.

 

To be fair, walmart provides jobs for folks that could never get a job..

 

Large-scale immigration is what fueled the rise of the Wal-Mart model.

Humungous corporate retailers like Wal-Mart wouldn't have been able to staff all their stores or drive their employees with brutal efficiency if it were not for the presence of so many desperate workers in the labor force. That's what drove out all those smaller and family owned retail stores.
(The 1999 Free Trade Agreement bringing in cheap Chinese goods into the American marketplace was also part of the reason for the rise of Wal-Mart)

A thread with more of my thoughts about the precise economics of that:
Lower labor costs will lead to dominance of corporations over small businesses (Mar 24, 2023 )

 

You ought to investigate Walmart benefits AND wages you might be surprised.

 

A bit of trivia that may be helpful: The company changed its legal name from Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. to Walmart Inc. in 2018.

 

A job is better than no job at all right? We can deal with wages soon.

 

What do you consider "poverty wage"?

 

Something that enables you to barely exist in your current situation and yet never get ahead.

 

Walmart is the only one who afford the democrat shoplifting.