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Name: Walmart
Age: 49
Occupation: evil, oversized retailer
Last Seen: Bentonville, AR
Bee-otched For: telling newbies "fuck you"---
Age: 49
Occupation: evil, oversized retailer
Last Seen: Bentonville, AR
Bee-otched For: telling newbies "fuck you"---
Reason #426,735,338 why I'll never shop at Walmart.
Last week, the nation's largest retailer announced that they will be scaling back on their employee health care. The chain will no longer offer health insurance to new part-time employees who work less than 24 hours. Also, the chain will cut employee expense accounts in half and will raise rates for those who use tobacco.
Ah, yes, the chain is cutting their costs alright, even though their CEO made over $30 million last year and each member of the Walton family is worth over $20 billion.
Of course, many companies are trying to cut their costs during this rocky economy and sadly, the first victim is employee health care. Several years ago, my company switched to an HSA - Health Savings Account - where they expect you to pay for a lot of your own insurance out of pocket. Has it been successful? Not really. Our company's profitability has gone up from last year, but then again, that's due to cuts given to we the employees. Many of us have seen our overtime disappear and even bonuses were given the heave-ho.
Sadly, Walmart is setting standards, and they're not good ones. If you're working at a Walmart and you're trying to feed your family, you're given the question, "why are you here?" Regretfully, you're just a drone making $12,000 per year while your bosses make way more with no room for improvement.
But, anybody who has seen Capitalism: A Love Story knows that Walmart profits off of their dead employees with a "dead peasant" policy, or at least they used to. If you're a current employee of the company, they had a life insurance policy put on you, and if you die, the company could collect millions off of your passing. You see, Walmart is the most-heartless company in the world. If you get sick and you work there, it sucks to be you.
Regretfully, it pains me that all I have in my area of Grand Rapids are big boxers, and Walmart's one of them. It explains why I've been shopping at Aldi more often. True, my dollars are going to Germany, but why would I want to support a chain that pisses on their employees like Walmart, or is overpriced like Family Fare/D&W or a bunch of rich Hollanders like Meijer? I would almost kill to have a supermarket in my area of town where I could shake the hand of the owner. Even more regretfully, Grand Rapids lost two family-owned supermarkets in just a few short months: D'Amico's and Parkside Foods.
The choice is yours. Support your local grocer or else you're going to end up like me. If you live in a small town with one supermarket - especially if it's family-owned - please shop there. True, you might pay a smidgeon more, but at least the markup will go into the hand of a man trying to pay off his mortgage instead of inbred billionaires from Arkansas. Tired of being a 99%-er? Blame it on yourself when you spend your dollars at Walmart.
Walmart: where screwing you over is our M.O..... Always.
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