Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sonny, The real problem though is that they let only a very small number of people become full time and thus recieve benefits. They are one of the largest employer of part-time non-benefit workers. It is rare to have college students the employees at Wal-mart, it is also rare that the workers there only need a non-benefit part-time job. Their prices come trough a couple of odd ways too. The pressure they exert on companies can and have been called "heavy handed". Fast Company magazine wrate a short description of it a couple years ago: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html Also, keep in mind that Wal-mart turns prescious few dollars into any economies other than in Bentonville, AR - with so many part-timers, low-cost buildings, (that detract from a town's identity) and large-corporation-style pressures on local governments about taxes think about how much there really is coming in to Natchitoches as opposed to going out of Natchitoches. I think its kind of sad and I avoid ours. So far the "premium" prices I pay elsewhere hasn't broken the bank. Cheers, Dave Dave On 6/8/05, SonC@aol.com <SonC@aol.com> wrote: > > In a message dated 6/8/2005 12:43:31 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > nathan.wajsman@planet.nl writes: > > Having said this, don't forget that by offering a range of goods at > hitherto unseen prices, Wal-Mart has made it possible for low-income > people to buy things they could not otherwise have been able to afford. > So the social impact is not 100% negative. > > > > For what it is worth, the Super Walmart in my town employs several > hundred > people, (many of them University Students.) A few marginal businesses > went > down when the store came, but now the two mile corridor on the way to that > store is flourishing with restaurants and small businesses in new > buildings. > > No one can say that it has been a bad thing for our rural town, except that > it has increased traffic along that formerly rural road, which of course > attracts business. > > Interesting too, that many of those businesses sell higher end versions of > products available in the Walmart. > > > Regards, > Sonny > http://www.sonc.com > Natchitoches, Louisiana > Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane > ?galit?, libert?, crawfish > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >