by Tdarcos » Mon Sep 12, 2016 10:44 am
1. A 59oz bottle at $2 is a somewhat expensive soft drink. For a non-refrigerated product that's about 3 times the price of a typical 2 liter, which is about 130 ounces - especially in a place like Walmart - but if it is considered a "premium quality" product then it might be worth it.
2. Some people will not shop at Walmart over opposition to its violations of law; it's anti-union stand; its cavalier treatment of employees (stores routinely gave emoloyees directions on where to apply and forms for fill out if the low wages they paid were enough to qualify an emploee for welfare and food stamps); its routine practice of closing stores if the labor environment was unacceptable to the company; and its pricing strategy which pushed low prices at all costs, even to the extent of driving local merchants who could not compete out of business (not that there is anything wrong with selling as cheaply as you can, as long as you aren't losing money, but if you can slash overhead so low you can sell below the cost of some of your competitors, there is a danger that if Walmart closes in a community - and sometimes they do - then there are no longer any stores in that community.
Walmart has been caught many times engaging in a number of illegal practices. My brother once joked at watching a Walmart commercial where a woman told how she started as a greeter and worked up to store manager. My brother then mentioned after she told how she watched over 200 employees in her store, he said, "And locked them in at night."
Several years later Walmart would be fined for locking in cleaning people in stores all night so they could not escape.
1. A 59oz bottle at $2 is a somewhat expensive soft drink. For a non-refrigerated product that's about 3 times the price of a typical 2 liter, which is about 130 ounces - especially in a place like Walmart - but if it is considered a "premium quality" product then it might be worth it.
2. Some people will not shop at Walmart over opposition to its violations of law; it's anti-union stand; its cavalier treatment of employees (stores routinely gave emoloyees directions on where to apply and forms for fill out if the low wages they paid were enough to qualify an emploee for welfare and food stamps); its routine practice of closing stores if the labor environment was unacceptable to the company; and its pricing strategy which pushed low prices at all costs, even to the extent of driving local merchants who could not compete out of business (not that there is anything wrong with selling as cheaply as you can, as long as you aren't losing money, but if you can slash overhead so low you can sell below the cost of some of your competitors, there is a danger that if Walmart closes in a community - and sometimes they do - then there are no longer any stores in that community.
Walmart has been caught many times engaging in a number of illegal practices. My brother once joked at watching a Walmart commercial where a woman told how she started as a greeter and worked up to store manager. My brother then mentioned after she told how she watched over 200 employees in her store, he said, "And locked them in at night."
Several years later Walmart would be fined for locking in cleaning people in stores all night so they could not escape.