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Why Is WalMart Mysteriously Shuttering Stores Nationwide For "Plumbing Issues"?
Earlier this year, WalMart became one of several corporate heavyweights to lift wages for its meagerly compensated workers, around 500,000 of which are now set to receive at least $9/hour and $10/hour by Q1 2016 (that of course assumes they make it on $9 an hour for another 12 months and don’t seek out other employment by sheer necessity).
Meanwhile, as we noted earlier this month, the move by the country’s largest retailer to pay a few extra pennies to its (basically) minimum wage employees comes at a cost to the company’s suppliers because when you operate on the thinnest of margins in order to be the “low price leader,” someone has to pay for those wage hikes and you can’t pass along the costs to customers because many of your low-income patrons are operating from the same tax bracket as your low-paid employees. As such, the poor companies along the supply chain are forced to lower their prices and of course they’re going to comply because well, you’re WalMart meaning you’re your vendors’ biggest account pretty much by default. The outcome is that “while WMT (or MCD or GAP or Target) boosts the living standards of its employees by the smallest of fractions, it cripples the cost and wage structure of the entire ecosystem of vendors that feed into it, and what takes place is a veritable avalanche effect where a few cent increase for the lowest paid megacorp employees results in a tidal wave of layoffs for said megacorp's vendors.”
If that doesn’t turn out to be enough in the face of an economy which isn’t really recovering and in which low-income shoppers are constrained by lackluster (and by that we mean nonexistent) wage growth, some sacrifices may have to be made. The problem is that laying people off and shuttering stores two months after a celebrated wage hike initiative doesn’t inspire much confidence and could turn into a PR issue, but one thing you could do is get creative, and while we’re not plumbers, we do find it curious that five geographically distinct WalMart stores have been closed in the past week for “ongoing plumbing issues that will require extensive repairs.”
Here’s more from a local CBS affiliate:
10 News called the county. Officials say they have no record of any code or permit violation at the Brandon location.
And when 10 News was at the Walmart Tuesday, there were no marked septic trucks or plumbing vehicles in the lot.
"Where is everybody if they're supposed to be working on everything where are all the trucks?" asked shopper Melissa Dupuis.
10 News asked a Walmart spokesperson whether the five stores were built from the same design, whether they had the same contractor, anything to understand why all of them closed on the same day for "plumbing issues."
The only thing they have in common, the spokesperson said are the highest number of plumbing incidents.
Leaving some customers to wonder "how many things have they not said. That's scary," said shopper Norma Espinosa.
And here’s more from a local ABC report in Florida:
BRANDON, Fla. - Employees of a Walmart in Brandon that abruptly closed Monday were among more than 2,000 employees nationwide who learned almost simultaneously they were being laid off.
In a nearly identical manner at every store, Walmart corporate officials visited the five locations, called an impromptu meeting in the back of the store and told employees that the stores would be closing that evening.
Besides Brandon, the affected locations were in Pico Rivera, Calif., Livingston, Texas, Midland, Texas, Tulsa, Okla.
“The issues mostly relate to clogs and water leaks in the plumbing - we’ve had persistent issues over the last several years,“ said a Walmart spokesperson said.
“These incidents impact the availability of water and create drainage issues for critical areas of the store which impacts our ability to serve customers,” she said.
“Normally, we do our best to avoid disrupting a store’s operations. However, given this particular store had one of the highest incidences of plumbing issues in the entire fleet and in order to reduce the costs associated with these incidents, we felt it was in the store’s best interest to invest in making the necessary improvements to resolve these issues,” the spokesperson said.
The I-Team has learned that none of the five affected stores have sought any plumbing permits for future repairs.
“We’re in a holding pattern. We’re anxious to learn exactly what they’re planning,” said Pico Rivera City Manager James Enriquez, when we contacted him about the store’s closing Tuesday.
Enriquez says when Walmart notified the city Monday that it was closing the store, he offered his full support in trying to get it back open.
“My building official walked out there and didn’t see any work being done,” he said.
So there you have it, “clogs and water leaks” but no plumbing permits and 2,000 affected employees, many of whom were presumably just given the news that they would be getting a raise only to discover that they will get 60 days of pay before they’ll need to find a job at another WalMart location (hopefully one with no plumbing issues) or find other employment. We’ll leave it to readers to discern if these “clogs and leaks” are real or whether the company is just quietly shutting down stores across the country.
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Big Turds...
Plumbing my ass! They're iInstalling Vagina-cams in the restrooms. ;-)
Looney
Unprofitable shit's clogging up the system's financials
As Nazi Pelousy once said: "We need to pass it so we know what's in it". She was describing a stool sample.
remember when they shot their America region CEO for daring to speak the truth about the wreckovery? they are dedicated to maintaining the lies, so why not pose all unpopular newsflow in such ways?
Wait! Plumbing is a metaphor for slow velocity of liquids (liquidity?)
No lies here. Colorful language
After 2016, Obama wants to rebuild them into mini, Janitor in Chief Libraries
Stores are closing because the sewer is backing up, filling the stores with toxic waste. Based on the economist PhD's, the rational thing to do would be to raise the ceiling, not close the store.
Then write a book about it.
#me_oh_so_courageous
They are showing their slaves just how easy it is them to be out of a job if they fuck around in any way shape or form.
Yeah, but the hilarious thing is, the slaves believe them, and probably are all going to go on high-fiber diets to avoid future plumbing problems at their next part-time, no-benefits shit-job.
Why does Walmart close stores? Why do ZH comments (and the occasional poster) disappear?
Leaks.... plumbers....
I've heard this one before somewhere.
"My plumber has a great beard, but he doesn't break the stuff he is hired to fix."
Man did I love those animated bears.
By plumbing, they must mean their supply line. Mostly everything sold in WM is made in China. Maybe there's fewwer goods coming in from China for some reason?
Rather than use their resources to build shitty stuff to sell in WM, they might be using them to build warheads.
So Walmart is literally full of shit!
The S#!tter was full
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twRDQmmxLkw
By claiming some sort of emergency the can close the stores instantly without going through the WARN act provisions?
Walmart has been canibalizing its own market by building stores too close together. Time to thin them out a little.
Good catch! You're right:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/29/2102
"(A) An employer may order a plant closing or mass layoff before the conclusion of the 60-day period if the closing or mass layoff is caused by business circumstances that were not reasonably foreseeable as of the time that notice would have been required."
And the only thing these stores had in common was they were the ones with the most plumbing incidents???
Sounds reasonable to me.
Why does this set off the ZH conspiracy theory alarms ?
Clogs?
Leaks?
2 Mos?
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You Rang.
We've noticed more and more Bitcoins showing up on the shelves at our Walmart? Especially where the ammunition used to be?
https://btc-e.com
Just as big a story is the very fact that a "Plumbing Permit" would be needed to fix plumbing. Another example of Government Regulations out of control.
McDonalds inside Walmart.
The event horizon of the Idiocracy singularity.
Interesting Map....looks like another map...
Operation Jade Helm?
http://www.greatdreams.com/operation-jade-helm.html
How long does it take to wire these buidings with explosives?
Has Walmart sold these premises to Larry Silverstein recently?
Buggered if I'd set foot inside these stores when they re-opened.
Sad that the world has come to this, even if I am being sarcastic.
Sheeples will never believe: All laws are written in ways so the elites may found loopholes to work in their selfish favors...
All CEO and CInvestO are hired to work these or they'd be "rendered obsolete", no?
it has been noted that a group of Israeli investors have been seen nosing around these closing stores......
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Seems like ZH is having some "plumbing issues" as well. And I don't mean this guy. All the (good) comments are disappearing down the memory hole.
It's called "Dark Stores" and Wal-Mart has been doing it for a looong time.
A. Come in, undercut all the mom and pop stores in the community - using profitable Walmarts to subsidize a 'loss-leader' Wal-Mart
B. Mom and Pop's fold up, prices jacked up.
C. Community sucked dry - Wal-Mart store is closed but building is not leased out to prevent a competitor anchor tenant from coming in.
http://www.sprawl-busters.com/search.php?readstory=1757
The solution to this BS is to make Income Tax Rate = Market Share. Walmart controls 60% of the retail market in the United States and their taxes should hence be 60%. Don't like it? DON'T GET SO BIG.
I always give State overseers of thier tax income producing slave quarters( the house you rent from the state ) a hard time. That is when I call them, which is never. I ask them and they say for 'safety'. I ask them if their wife, kids have cars and do they drive them. They say yes. So did the town/city/state 'inspector' inspect and sign off on the last set of pads put on their brakes? Which is more 'dangerious'? Your wife's brakes or calling you, waiting five days or a week to have you sign off on a sheetrock inspection? God forbid plywood nails aren't every three inches. Or a 2 ton shear stregth hanger nail, one of ten, for a total of 20 tons of shear, is missing. Yes'm. Oh, and how about at the local Obamacare death camp, ie, the hospital, you dolts signing off on the butchers and poinsoners and skimming rent seekers that off people each and every day? Or the local rent a fake defense lawyer that are the grease in the organized crime machine known as the courts? Yeah, didn't think so.
I get the double blink and the "I'm just a good National Socialist train clerk " pushing the papers along.
Some are closing 6 mos to a year for plumbing problems. You can build a brand new WalMart in less time. What kind of plumbing problems could take up to a year to fix unless they didn't want those stores open?
I think it takes longer than you think to plan a false flag. The buildings have to be wired, the explosives set, the ISIS actors engaged, the cover story set for they how they got hold of the explosives, another cover story for how they gained access to the buildings to plant the exposives. I mean, christ, these people are just human, give them a break.
When I was 12 I made a trip to Portland, Oregan. I met a fellow kid I no longer remember his name - just the story - who had a real sadist streak. He bragged about how he would go into public washrooms and flush M-80's down the toilet - which are those big ass fireworks (1/4 sticks of dynamite) Because they could burn underwater and took a few seconds to go off they would travel down the sewer pipe and then shatter it. Of course now you have to jackhammer the concrete out under the building.
Being from Canada I was amazed the entire country didn't immolate itself on the 4th of July every year - or that anything was left of public services with kids like that running around..
Maybe some kid got pissed off and did that to them - who knows?
THIS reply is why I read the comment section FIRST!
Can't speak to your first paragraph, but the second is indisputably a part of their business model. Many of their stores in rural communities are just miles apart, for the sole purpose of completely destroying any competition from local small business.
Union talk, perhaps?
Obama signed an executive order mandating Toto toilets & imported French bidets be installed in all retailer bathrooms.
2,000 employees have been diagnosed with ongoing hemorrhoid problems, the curve is beginning to look exponential...
The article failed to mention that the shitty wages not only hurt the vendors, they burden the taxpayer by providing indigents to the welfare monster- launder-me-a-democrat-vote system. I wonder what percentage of Wal-Mart employees are on some form of social welfare program. Bet the majority of their front liners are on multiple programs, courtesy of LBJ's War On Poverty. The antithesis of Henry Ford.
These motherfuckers are the low price leader merely because they were first to figure out how to get every one of us to subsidize their labor force, while forcing legitimate local mom and pops to close shop.
Wal Mart = War on independent business and independence in general, as employees are fitted for plantation shackles in training/orientation. Welcome to the GimmeDat party.
"Poverty Fascism"
It's all good, the US Treasury can just print bonds bought by the Federal Reserve and that money can be used to subsidize their low living standards. Not only that they can give wonderful Willy-Walmart and his slave factories of Chinese Oomphaloompa's a big tax break like GE so they can increase their buybacks!!
... hmmm let's see if we can create a new name for these class of people 'Welfarites?' 'Poorites?' Ideas?
yeah but isnt Sam Mall Wart a true blue REPUBLICAN? yep make the taxpayers pay for your employees by laying them off, forcing them onto welfare/UEC etc
If Walmart closes where the heck will all the massively overweight merikans go to shop?
Please. Enough with the infantalism of grown adults. Who forced you to work in a Wall Mart? Get a trade. ( Look at any skilled trades, in ANY Craigslist, in ANY part of the country. Want everywhere ) Of course it is work, work. You have to learn something for a few weeks( trucking ) to years. ( PLC, plumbers, electricians, ....). So, A. Don't learn. B. Don't want to get dirty. B. Have some unsupervised responibility, let alone self pride. You want to be the modern equivilent of a rice paddy picker. Dull, repitious, low quality oxygen thief. Fine. What, did a judge sentance you? Do you come form some Idia like cast system where your family has always been Wal Mart smerfs? People sell themselves because they want to, or they don't want to, want a little, tiny bit, baby stepps, more.
Re small buisness. I went in a Ace Hardware, which I like Ace. Three employees in the corner gabing it up. Looked in the plumbing for a bit, ten minutes. Still gabbing. Hook where the thing I needed empthy, others filled. Waited. Still gabbing. Walked to door, gave a good look back, blank stares back but the gabbing stopped, I walked out. Small buisness isn't a paradise of saints either. Boo hoo...I'm a small....boo hoo...I'm a farmer.....boo hoo....... Anyone of these, you offer them better for less, they'll jump. Everywhere. World wide. Since Hammurabi.
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French bidets, welcome to obamas america.
It seems like they just want to save money on labor costs and/or scare their employees so they STFU about pay hikes. At the size of these buildings, it seems that you could replace the entire plumbing system in a few weeks or a month. Walmart truly is,
full of shit.
Someone here a few years ago wrote a great post on WMT and how their shelves and inventory was getting lower.
I wish I could find the post. They said eventually WMT will get squeezed on all sides of the supply and labor chain. My guess is chinese shit ain't so cheap anymore and that was part of this analysis.
True. The Chinese won't work for peanuts anymore.
work like hell
for chicken feet..
they'd work for almonds
but California fucked that all up
takes one gallon of water to produce an almond according to CNN
What a load of shit on all fronts. Practically, theoretically, economically stupid. Workers are leaving due to low pay, but they should not get a raise. Vendors are not leaving despite decrease in profits due to lack of demand but they should be paid more for their goods? Why would walmart pay more than they need to for goods but pay less than they need to the workers? This Tyler just oozes real-world experience, get back behind the trading desk you flop you couldn't manage a root in a brothel.
Fuck me remember when zh was not a sad joke?
They have been widening isles by taking out a whole isle of shelves-- many less products and the shelves are front stacked to hide the emptyness behind-- been going on since 2008 or before-- it's starting to get obvious in some of the supermarket stores-- food prices are up big time and low food prices are what gets the Walmart Shopper in the door--- I think the Walmart business model is wearing thin--
I remember that post and witnessed it at one of the local stores when I did a walk through, lots of empty space, product missing from shelves, out-of date stuff still on shelves.
I've noticed Chinese sellers on ebay are slashing prices like mad. WMT has probably noticed, too. Probably, now demanding price cuts.
"Man did I love those animated bears."
Here's some more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSdGB_r6ZkQ&list=PLv5-IS1ivXnZwISYGS3kgf...
Clogs in the profit flow?
People, it's time to wake the fuck up. Jade Helm goes live in 10 weeks. FEMA has already stated that they plan to use large open stores, stadiums, etc. to relocate people to. This is them getting ready to relocate dissidents. Anyone reading this would be considered a dissident.
Correct.
Holding pens.
Jade Helm is months away. They've had the same stupid exercise every couple of years - there's a half-dozen other ones going on that are far more troubling.
Exercises aside, you still need a reason to declare martial law under executive order. Preferably someting that would 'teach' the people of the U.S. that Israel's enemies are your enemies. They sort of used up the terrorist bomber false flags - people are bored of them. They would need something that justified a far greater crackdown. Something like this:
ISIS Camp a Few Miles from Texas, Mexican Authorities Confirm
ISIS or Iranian Hezbollah. Maybe both. That story has been making the rounds on the tinfoil hat sites, so no idea how credible it is. The point is that it would take something incredibly fake but sufficiently widespread and terrifying LIKE that to kick off martial law. What better way than hire some al Nusra or ISIS guys you got all trained up in Syria and Iraq to stage a bunch of little raids on the U.S. from their little CIA/DHS camps set up across the Mexican border. You can claim they're Irainan if you want - Americans are pretty stupid.
Hell, CNN would be all over that. It would make the Boston lockdown look like a bake sale. The streets would be swarming with militarized SWAT teams. Everyone, everywhere in the U.S. would be ordered to 'Shelter in Place'. If you were trying to drive somewhere, you would be pulled over and questioned. Maybe detained for further questioning. The internet would be taken down, either 'for your protection' or 'by terrorist hackers'. Cell phone service would be non-existant or sporadic. Power and water off due to some farsical 'terrorist' actions. ATMs would be emptied or off-line well before you WERE allowed out. Panic hoarding would empty out grocery and drug stores. Gas statations closed. Flights grounded. You would still get cable, so you could watch plenty of CNN, Fox News or The Kardashians.
You would never know about the Saudi-engineered Yemeni genocide via starvation. You would never know about the Israeli bombing of Iran. You would never know they nuked Damascus, Alleppo or maybe Mosul or Donetsk. You would find out months later, but the government would all ready have been spewing their story in whatever media you could get to. Everything would serve the purpose of the current psychopaths, let them operate with impunity and never have to answer for their actions.
In the mean time, the only thing you would be worried about is: "Should I kill the dog to feed my kids, should I try to steal some food from my neighbors, or should I just surrender my family to the FEMA/Wal*Mart refugee center so they don't starve to death?"
Welcome to all the liberty and freedom the U.S.A. was willing to fight for.
Them good ol' boys in Texas can get a lot of lead downrange, and accurately at that. If ISIS showed up there, they'd get their collective clock cleaned.
They'll be on the DHS/CIA payroll. The point isn't to arm and march a couple dozen of them down the middle main street for the general public's target practice. That's a total waste of a fake crisis. Who would be outraged about that?
Either the government will create the opportunity for them up to create some havoc or the government will be the ones taking down the grid or blowing up a few things before going after them. Their entire purpose is to provide someone for the government to blame, catch and parade in front of the CNN cameras so the DHS Stazi can be honored for the heroes they are. The peons need to understand that they need the government to maintain a standing military on U.S. soil to protect us. Well, that and the fact that you must obey DHS otherwise you are helping the terrorists.
It doesn't matter how crazy the plot. Nobody is ever going to predict how or when it will happen. It will just be some dumbass way with a lot of shock and awe. It doesn't matter HOW they do it - we all know why they'll do it and how it's going to end.
I'm getting an good idea how the average German must have felt in January of 1933.
I think you have a pretty good handle on the way things really work. And I don't see any such thing happening for a few more years, unless Rand Paul manages to swipe the GOP nomination out from under the oligarchy. If that happens, I have my own ideas of what sort of false flag will be staged, but I'm keeping that to myself - at least, so far as online goes. I will say that I'd be looking at late August - mid September of 2016 for a time frame for it, though.
I certainly hope you're right, HC. My pessimism says Iran and now potentially Greece getting Russian S-300s is enough to send the ZATO psychopaths into full-retard mode. Ukraine if the people in the Kiev-Junta controlled areas riot to throw out the Nazis, otheriwse the U.S. is fine with the current Donbass ethnic-cleansing ramp-up.
Yemen isn't even on their radars - nobody in the West cares if more muslims starve to death at the hands of the U.S. Unless the Houthi decide to take it to downtown Riyadh or the House of Saud.
The U.S. has no plan at all when the Chinese food riots start this summer except to turn Wal*Mart security guards into federal law enforcement officers.
If I read the story right, they had some Incidents. You know, 'Plumbing Incidents'. On the SAME DAY. That will take SIX MONTHS to repair. Without seeking plumbers or permits. Announced to the employees with EIGHT HOURS NOTICE. Because they all were built with the same PLUMBING TEAMS (subcontractors).
'Incidents' happen all the time. They are like 'accidents', or something. Nothing to see here! Keep moving, citizen...
When the Space Shuttle blew up 93 seconds after launch, the Morton-Thiocol team that built the solid rocket boosters liked to refer to it as 'the (Shuttle) Incident' (it sounded better than the 'Holy SHIT, this stuff we supplied FUCKED UP and KILLED A BUNCH OF ASTRONAUTS because some arrogant, ignorant motherfucker at NASA decided to ignore our warnings and LAUNCH ANYWAY; but we tried to tell them' line of TRUTH). SEE? It was simply an 'INCIDENT'
When the Watergate Plumbers were caught in the act, there was a president that tried to cover up their actions (although he had no knowledge of; or was affiliated with any of the actions of these men). This was ANOTHER example of a 'PLUMBING INCIDENT'.
Walmart, and the U.S. Presidency, have several things in common, you see. Always (sold) to the lowest bidder! ALWAYS! CIA, NSA, DHS, Chi-coms, WHATEVER... the money to fund them ALL comes from the FedRes/Rothschilds...
The 'food courts' in all six locations were supplied the same tainted beef-like 'human chow' via their McDonald's's, and the lunch rush that day was particularly busy (E.B.T. day, you know). The scooters and wheelchairs of the Walmart demographic were ALL lined up in the bathrooms (and out the doors, over by the Automotive Sections), and a traffic jam ensued. All their bowels decided to move at the same time, and most did not have the opportunity or time to be hoisted up and sat down on the already-taxed 'handicapped-accesible' plumbing systems (at these SIX locations). Does the very use of the phrase 'handicapped-accesible' make me a RACIST, or simply a 'HATER'? I wonder...
I'M SURE THERE IS A LOGICAL EXPLANATION (which has nothing to do with 'Operation Jade Helm', or the impending collapse of the economy; leading to Martial Law; and the need for 'temporary re-location processing centers' in these particular areas which all seem to have a high prevelance of welfare-sucking leech maggots who are prone to violence by their very nature: OR, the impending closure of these stores due to the 'red ink' that all major multinational corporations that actually RUN the globalist NWO system like to look at in their spare time; when they are not too busy trying to be recognized as 'people').
I SEE that the DHS just ordered ANOTHER shitload of .223 caliber ammunition (for 'training purposes'). I would guess that these six Walmart locations probably won't have them for sale, though.
If you look at my AVATAR, you will understand what happens when all the people in the front of the ship flush the toilets at the same time!
I'm getting an good idea how the average German must have felt in January of 1933.
you dont have to go that far back. read
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0141046813?*Version*=1&*entries*=0
(dont buy amazon, support your local bookstore!!!)
The author dave eggers got cought during kathrina in new orelans and describes a bad bad story, and its all real and now.
Intriguing - never heard of it, but I'm not much of a dead tree guy now. The last local bookstore standing is more than a half-hour away but they can probably have it on my doorstep in three days, just like Amazon.
Meanwhile - the good old boys in Texas keep electing Bushes and Cornyn NWO scum into office including young Jorge Pedro Bush.
a non issue ffs -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k9DtpFEal4
They use a virus threats as a pretext . .ebola?
Paveway: Israel would never bomb Mosul-it is ISIS controlled and ISIS was formed by Israel.
ISIS looted $450M in gold bullion from Mosul's central bank last year. If the gold is no longer in Mosul, then nothing of value to the U.S. or Israel is left in Mosul. Human beings are worthless to both: noisy, inconvenient at best and entirely disposable.
Then, they'll definitely need plumbing upgrades.
When this farce of an exercise goes live, what do you suppose the chances of some of those special undercover ops dudes getting shot by concerned CCP holders in Texas who mistake the gun toting ops as criminals or invaders?
Blanks my ass.
I had do an internet search to find out about what Jade Helm means.
You could be right about the Jade Helm point
The actual roundup, if/when it happens, will not be anything we have any advance warning of. I'm not worred about "Jade Helm" in the slightest; it's a training excercise and nothing more. Once something like the actual mass roundup the Foil Hatters are predicting happens, there's no way forward except 100% total, stem-to-stern police state.
And the globalist parasites are not quite ready to take that step, yet.
the ZWO still needs to disarm the population, and they will.
The fake sandy hook ziomedia extravaganza failed to have the desired effect on the USA cattle so it's taking a little longer than expected.
I'm not saying it's not gonna happen. But, just like the Great Financial Kersplat, we aren't there - yet.
The Founders understood all too well who these people are and what they would try...
so....
They framed a little doozy called the second amendment...a big middle finger and they know it!
love it or hate it...
America is armed to the fucking teeth...
..and waiting.
Don't be fooled by the eerie silence in the hinterland...
"Leaks.... plumbers....
I've heard this one before somewhere"
Too many "cracks". :O
Ours have had issues from the day it was opened . There sometimes 3 times a day. They never shut down for remodels they section off and it's done in three months. And they usually remodel every 5 yrs. and I do three stores
Big difference here. No leaks; no plumbers.
No comments, not even a comment field on http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-14/us-government-was-more-forgivin.... See Operation Paperclip (not just forgiving, but fully embedded in the Empirium Reich 4.0).
What's going on Tylers?
@Herd Redirection Committee
I noticed the removed comments situation on moments ago when I was showing a coworker the ZH article about the Knight CEO. There were only two comments, where there were literally hundreds the day or two before. Weird.
Fuck Walmart. I won't spend my money on their cheap shit that breaks well before it should---because its all made cheap. And they like it that way....how many toasters and coffee pots can u buy in a 10 year time frame? Makes for repeat shopping.
As for the pay of their workforce, if the Waltons are worth billions, I think they can afford to take a bit less money and pay their workforce more. They don't need to fuck over their vendors or their employees. Its just pure greed on its face. In fact, they could never take another dollar out of the Walmart system, and have enough money to live for generations. Just like Uncle Warren Buffet. If you are worth 50+ billion, why is your secretary making anything less than a million?
It would take 137 years to spend 50 billion dollars, if you spent a million per DAY!!
You blaming them for being rich? Or for not paying their employees more than they're worth?
Seems to me if the employees were worth more they could easily get a job somewhere else.
When a Walmart first opened in northern Michigan the local shopowners - WHO DID PAY A LIVING WAGE - posted signs in their windows begging people to shop downtown and avoid it.
Did the *greedy* morons listen? No. The mom and pops are now closed and all that's left is the Walmart and their crappy inventory and crappy wages. Karma.
Everyone should stop whining and take a good long look in the mirror.
My analysis shows that people would prefer to pay less for lower quality.
Which means in the short run, you might save a few bucks, but in the long run you won't save anything, in fact it will cost you more. When you have to buy 5 $20 toasters over 10 years = $100, instead of the $70 toaster today ( that would last 10 years), you just lost $30. You get what you pay for.
"You blaming them for being rich? Or for not paying their employees more than they're worth?"
Well, one of two things can happen. They can pay their vendors more, instead of twisting their arms to get the absolute lowest price shit, or they could pay their employees more without raising retail prices to the consumer. How much to you think people like the "Waltons" are worth? Sure the schmuck who hasn't taken a shower in a week and who can't get to work on time may not be worth $9 and hour, but I don't think the Waltons are "worth" the billions they have "earned" either.
You think a pro athlete should be worth millions and millions a year? When they coerce the taxpayer into funding their stadiums and other infrastructure? You think a movie star is worth millions and millions for the work they do? They could all have their "pay" halved and ticket prices could be reduced for "regular" people. And guess what, they would STILL LIVE LIKE KINGS!!
Henry Ford knew how the pay structure affected sales. Wal-Mart has achieved critical mass to where the dynamic could be similar.
Ahh, bunk. All anyone worries about anymore is the "top line". See AMZN and NFLX. They will sell their souls to maximize the top line, not the bottom line. And they do it because they get the biggest chunk of the bottom line----and can afford to try and maximize the top line at the expense of the worker. Or they don't even have a bottom line, and fool the "investor" into giving them their hard earned money. Would you rather sell a billion widgets and lose a penny each, or a million widgets and make a dime each?
He figured out that he needed to pay his employee's enough to afford to buy his cars.
Henry Ford was paying his assembly line workers .242 ounces of gold per day in 1914 with no unions. In today's dollars (with gold at $1200 per ounce) that is $290 per day (probably for a 10 hour day with no benefits) so that is equal to $29 per hour. No federal income tax, state income tax, or social security tax, medicare tax, unemployment insurance tax, or union dues were deducted from their paychecks.
No wonder Highland Park and surrounding Detroit was so prosperous in 1914. Workers came from all over the world to take Mr. Ford up on his $5/day offer. In 1914, gold was fixed at $20.67 per ounce.
Walter Reuther and his brother came back from their training in the Soviet Union and sold the auto workers a bill of goods in exchange for their dues payments and a dream of a socialist utopia and the brotherhood of man.
The result is the bankrupt, destroyed, desolate and deadly Detroit of today.
Were Henry Ford's employees psychos, skanks and freaks???
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If it bothers you then start blaming the PEOPLE WHO PAY THEM: sports fanatics, moviegoers and Walmart shoppers. You know - the "regular" people.
It only bothers me in-so-much as if I was worth several lifetimes of income, I think I wouldn't worry about accumulating anymore. I am not advocating for any legislation or government intervention. Just asking the question.......How much is enough?????
Some people can never have enough. Its a disease.
Thats because greed morphs into power. Its all about the power---and when they see other "rich" people at their posh cocktail parties, they can strut around saying "You are rich, but I am richer." Life imitates art---this is just about exactly how the Hunger Games movies are playing out.
Why does a tweaker suck the glass dick?
Why does a gambler gamble himself to ruin?
Why does a Wall Street Broker take high leveged risk plays with his own and others' hard earned cash?
Why do people throw themselves out of perfectly good airplanes?
It is the rush. It is the adrenaline.
For adrenaline junkies there is always more but there is never enough.
When you achieve power there is no more adrenaline rush. You have to seek more power. It is an addiction after all.
And they will never be satisfied. They will progressively seek it until it ends up ruining them and everyone else.
That is just the way that it is. There is no cure for it.
(You can shoot them, and you can be assured that some other adrenaline junkie will step in to fill their shoes. But, as you shoot them, you can tell them, as they use that vain excuse in order to talk you out of shooting them, "Well...At least it will not be you.")
yes u pinpointed it
a disease !!!!!!!!
Actors will soon enough be replaced by virtual characters and they will be out of a job just like everybody else.
They will still need voice actors, motion capture/stunt men, and possibly hand models. I admit I am just making up the necessity of hand models.
You're an idiot. Do you think that the Walmart budget for paying employees is linked to the Walton's bank account? Yes they're rich, but the operating costs and business model are on a knife's edge here. They only make money on such a scale because they operate at such a scale. They can definitely NOT raise wages without raising prices. You're a fucking idiot.
we here in mn get so pissed about the stadium here that the vikings want
let those rich fuckers pay for it if that is what they want
geezesh fuck.
Except the best business model of all is to convince people that the $50 dollar toaster is 90% the quality of the $70 one, but for 70% of the price! And then engineer mechanical failure for 3 years, and you're making over $150 my man!
In other words, you are lying. Snake oil salesmen, and carnival barkers pull the same kind of shit. The truth seems to be the biggest casualty of the times.
true and so very sad.
"My analysis shows that people would prefer to pay less for lower quality."
Thats easy to solve, Just slap a BWM or Nike logo on it and double the price! Offer in-store financing for over-priced goods.
I Blame them for running millions of mom and pop local small businesses off the rail through predatory pricing via economies of scale.
That's one just one reason I've never set foot in the store.
Also, the Waltons do not own Wally World any longer. They own a sweet hunk to be sure but a lot of people own that stock. If the employees are working there, they are being paid what they think they are worth, so nothing else matters except to a bunch of whiners that have never made a payroll. It's the same crowd of shits that scream about sweat shops when they don't know what a watermelon field, cotton patch, hay bale, pipeline fitter helper, or a pulp wooder is.
Sweat shops are oxymorons when inside a building with a roof to keep the sun off your hot ass. The poor Chinese kids working in the sewing factories could be knee deep in the mud in a rice paddy dodging King Cobras, or Kraits, or whatever highly poisonous critters they have. Every one of them love those sweat shops.
A lot of us learned some good lessons working our asses off to help the family and to go to school. Most of the sweat shop whiners are gold bricking lazy union shits. I see little difference in a bankster and a teamster. The teamster will at least work a little bit. Sweat shops will hire anyone whereas a union will exclude everyone that isn't kin or a buddy. The govts need to butt out of just about everything to do with gainful productivity. Parasites. They can't even keep up with their stolen money.
2 months severance? I'll bet all the employees are doing back flips of joy getting 2 months paid vacation. They will all have another menial job the same day the last severance check runs out.
That's only the 20 full-time employees. The 480 part-timers get a smile and a nice pat on the back - just before they get a good, swift kick in the ass on their way out.
This is going on in the UK right now, the Supermarkets (all of the big names) are all closing stores, and some brand new stores just finished will not be occupied. New projects have been mothballed or cancelled altogether. There is a real retail contraction going on.
On the coast of Virginia US they are building like mad. New homes, new business...and still the economy (wages) are lowering here. OT: The Navy Airforce here has been conducting drills lately like it was in 2001. Mostly non stop except late night. It's after 11pm EST and they are still flying over.
@ Nope <<<<the rational thing to do would be to raise the ceiling, not close the store.>>>
As well as raising the urinals to keep the male employees on their toes
Plumbing=water. It appears they are all in states with some water issues.
Florida!? Water issues!?
It rains every day there between 2:00-2:30.
See! It's the weather!
Or just dig down 12 inches. Basements are indoor swimming pools in florida.
I'm gonna say it like a typical Long Islander: They are full of fuckin' shit!!
Brandon FL Walmart is where that teenager was caught jacking off on a pony in the kid's toy department.
It was a brown and red plush pony and than he put it back on the shelf - all on camera.
A plush pony for god's sake. There has to be a connection. What are the odds?
"If it plush, it don't flush"
Lack of water or lack of liquidity? You decide
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Target - where people are willing to spend a little more so they don't have to go to Walmart.
Online shopping -- where you never have to deal with the human trash that shops at either walmart or targe.
i prefer to help the small business person locally
will only shop online when i can't get it locally
...Are these ex employees eligible for Disability Insurance?
For emotional distress from a hostile work environment. Probably so.
"Clogs and water leaks?" See! It's the weather's fault! If it wouldn't rain, then WallMart wouldn't have had these issues and lay off 2000 people!
Yep...bottom line, no matter what the "conspiracy", is that this is a move to shore up Walmarts bottom line. Either through quartely profits, stocks, wages, etc.
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I personally know the inspector who condemned the Walmarts in Texas. There were severe structural problems discovered when making renovations. I am in industry, and know some of the contractors that construct walmarts. The profit margins are razor-thin (sub 5%), which buys you alot of hasty and poorly skilled labor. Walmarts are rife with problems--particularly in their joists and plumbing. Walmart is most certainly downplaying the severity of these problems (potentially catastrophic), but they are purely structural problems. No conspiricy here.
Temporary FEMA camps for ZHers?
Housing for illegals?
Way too non luxury for the illegals. They will need abandoned Four Seasons hotels for their comfort. ZHers certainly a possibility.
Dude with the Tall Tom handle is definitely getting water boarded somewhere.
LOL...
We tortured him and stole his password.
B.S. - you would never give it up for torture, Tom. You would wear out the fed thugs and they would eventually give up and let you go out of frustration. At which point, you would probably refuse to leave and insist that you were, in fact, up to something and they should try an figure it out. A couple of days after that, the feds would be posting here begging someone to come and get you from them. Nobody would agree unless they threw in some cash - at least for gas and beer. We would insist that you drank 'fancy' beer and sqeeze them for enough dough to actually buy about fourteen cases of cheap beer.
So the only question is how much and what brand of cheap beer would you settle for?
Operation Jade Helm
Most likely, states that were target participants.
Absolutely it is for Jade Helm....
they will use them as temporary warehouses for the equipment and supplies they will need ....
Jade Helm is in the South and all the closures are there too, on both sides of the "hostile" states
It would be interesting to surveil these stores for the next six months and see what goes in and what comes out.
"Operation Jade Helm" More like "Operation Negative cashflow"
Most likely these stores just aren't making any money.
Sounds like this is a liquidity issue, in disguise maybe?
Chinamart is cratering. China's exports down 12% is showing up at corporate results of Chinamart.
Plumbing issues.. good one! They couldn't come out and talk straight about the lack of consumers and revenue.
Walmarts are starting to look like ghost towns.
Tough call:
Buy darn near anything found in stores online [Amazon] w/ delivery!
or
Go into a Wal-Mart full of nasty goons trolling around.
Where else can you get into the xmas spirit by beating someone over a $1 towell? Stay classy, walmart.