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2014-05-19 Economy

Walmart not opposing new gov't minimum wages.

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Walmart top executives have gone over to kowtowing to the Liberals. When the regime told them to stop selling guns in the sports department, they stopped selling guns.

Also, Walmart has no real competition on their level. They wiped out much of their local competition years ago. So keep some costs down is not an issue of being competitive. Even though some competition is springing up such as Aldi Food Stores being an effective competitor to Walmarts food department.

Posted by Bubba Graiting8281 2014-05-19 04:49|| 2014-05-19 04:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Democrats, calling for substantial increases in hourly pay

Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-05-19 07:40|| 2014-05-19 07:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Related story from The Motley Fool speaks to Walmart's troubles with the regime's NLRB thugs.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-19 07:47|| 2014-05-19 07:47|| Front Page Top

#4 What local competition there is can't afford the minimum wage marginal increase. MW becomes a way to keep out competition. BTW - McDonald's hires 7,000 touch-screen cashiers. Keep pushing MW and the geniuses out there start to find more substitutes for labor.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-05-19 08:53|| 2014-05-19 08:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Why should Walmart care as long as all their competition has to pay the same wages? Walmart can follow whatever their surviving competiton does to compensate, too.

Posted by gorb 2014-05-19 08:58|| 2014-05-19 08:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Raise wages, then raise prices. Nothing gets accomplished except the Goverment gets a more tax revenue on the higher percentage of tax on the higher wage. Billions of dollars across the 50 states.

Posted by Bubba Graiting8281 2014-05-19 14:56|| 2014-05-19 14:56|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 Why should Walmart care as long as all their competition has to pay the same wages?

What gorb said. Plus, if they oppose it (on totally rational grounds), they look like dicks and nobody wants to be the target of the next Two Minute Hate.

Posted by SteveS 2014-05-19 16:50|| 2014-05-19 16:50|| Front Page Top

#8 ..they've already been the target of the usual Two Minutes of Hate for years as the union minions show up at public zoning hearings and business applications. Anytime a new store is proposed, usually near any urban area, they bus the pig squads in to disrupt and slander without consequences.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-05-19 17:23|| 2014-05-19 17:23|| Front Page Top

#9 part of the deal for their employees to get free health care. They get a pay raise and no longer get a GIVERnment subsidy. WALMART saves on healthcare, GIVERnment saves on subsidy (I wish) and the employee continues to run on the treadmill of life.

Posted by airandee 2014-05-19 18:10|| 2014-05-19 18:10|| Front Page Top

#10 #8 ..they've already been the target of the usual Two Minutes of Hate for years as the union minions show up at public zoning hearings and business applications.

Very true. However, it is one thing to picketed by the usual gang of wreckers, and quite another to be called out on national tv by POTUS himself (cue Hail to the Chief)

Posted by SteveS 2014-05-19 21:18|| 2014-05-19 21:18|| Front Page Top

#11 quite another to be called out on national tv by POTUS himself (cue Hail to the Chief)

Do WalMart shoppers care about whatever the president is blithering about today or any other day?

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